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Optimizing Network Stability and Reliability Through Data-Driven Strategies

Kentik

Here’s a ridiculous list for you: Switches Routers Firewalls CASBs IDS/IPS appliances Wireless access points Public clouds Network load balancers Application load balancers Service provider networks 5G networks Data center overlays SD-WAN overlays Container network interfaces Proxies DHCP services IPAM databases …and the list goes on.

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The Pains and Problems of NFV

CATO Networks

As a practical matter, though, you cant fully virtualize a service demarcation; something has to provide the carrier-to-user connection, harmonize practical local network interfaces (like Ethernet) with a carrier service interface, and provide a point of management handoff where SLA enforcement can be monitored by both sides.

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PTP: Timing accuracy and precision for the future of computing

Engineering at Meta

The quality of the network router switches and network interfaces. The software/driver/firmware stack that needs to be executed to send or receive a network packet (referred to as the open systems interconnection, or OSI). There is a famous saying: “If you can measure it, you can manage it.”