Kentik

MARCH 9, 2023

With so many network boundaries being navigated (application, service, cloud providers, subnets, SD-WANs , etc.), Your switches, servers, transits, gateways, load balancers, and more are all capturing critical information about their resource utilization and traffic characteristics. What is device telemetry?

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Engineering at Meta

JANUARY 27, 2023

Also, the pivot to metaverse has led to a significant increase in AI, HPC, and machine learning workloads that demand huge networking bandwidth and compute capacity and pose challenges around safe co-existence of existing web, legacy and modern workloads.

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Engineering at Meta

JULY 10, 2024

Improving tail utilization – the utilization level of the top 5% of the servers when ranked by utilization– within our infrastructure is imperative to operate our fleet efficiently and sustainably. If demand increases, capacity headroom is necessary in constrained servers to maintain service levels when accommodating new demand.

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Kentik

JANUARY 31, 2023

Here are some examples of network-related KPIs: Network latency Packet loss Throughput Connections per second Bandwidth utilization Note that these KPIs can be aggregated at different levels of the hierarchy—individual endpoints or instances, multi-instance services, entire data centers, across regions, and globally.

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Kentik

APRIL 4, 2023

Be it power supplies, servers, routers, load balancers, proxies, or any other physical and virtual network components, the horizontal scaling that redundancy provides is the ultimate safety net in the presence of failure or atypical traffic demands. Top talkers are often the cause of outages for application stacks.

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Kentik

MARCH 7, 2023

Instrumenting business, application, and operational context to network telemetry give operators multifaceted views of traffic and behavior. Often this is the first tier of “enriching the data,” where correlations between network details like IP addresses, DNS names, application stack tags, and deployment versions can be made.

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Engineering at Meta

AUGUST 8, 2023

Using state-of-the-art cryptographic techniques, we have developed Private Data Lookup (PDL) that allows users to privately query a server-side data set. With PDL, we encourage the use of stronger passwords while minimizing the information revealed to the server in the password precheck process. FlashPoint.io, HoldSecurity.com).

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Engineering at Meta

OCTOBER 15, 2024

We look forward to continued collaboration with OCP to open designs for racks, servers, storage boxes, and motherboards to benefit companies of all sizes across the industry. Now, through OCP, we’re bringing new open advanced network technologies to our data centers, and the wider industry, for advanced AI applications. kernel).

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Kentik

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Not as difficult as time travel, but it’s difficult enough so that for 30+ years IT professionals have tried to skirt the issue by adding more bandwidth between locations or by rolling out faster routers and switches. Over the last few decades network managers have focused on adding bandwidth and reducing the network outages.

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Kentik

JANUARY 28, 2021

However you get it, traffic is the key “what is” that shows you what users and applications are up to and how they’re interacting with the network! Why is my bandwidth bill so high? Questions you can’t answer with traffic alone: Is this drop in traffic to Google due to network, application, or other performance issues?

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Kentik

MARCH 13, 2023

How it used to be When I started my career in networking, servers were down the hall or in the campus data center. Yes, there’s something to say about how applications are written, but on the public internet side, we’ve seen a decrease in latency, cost, and a massive increase in available bandwidth.

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The Network DNA

JUNE 10, 2024

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is a Next generation SDN solution and is designed for data centers spine-leaf architecture for the policy-driven solution. Cisco ACI provides application agility and data center automation with simplified operations. Adding spine switches increases fabric bandwidth.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 27, 2019

UCaaS offerings move unified communications capabilities integrated calling, conferencing, and messaging applications normally delivered from on-premises servers, into the cloud. Those seeing rising network costs typically purchase additional MPLS bandwidth from their existing WAN supplier(s).

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 18, 2022

In this article, we will discuss some of the various policy objects that exist within the Cato Management Application and how they are used. Understanding Catos Management Application from Its Architecture To understand policy design within the Cato Management application, its useful to discuss some of Catos architecture.

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Engineering at Meta

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

As people create, share, and consume an ever-increasing volume of online videos, Meta is working to develop the most bandwidth-efficient ways to transcode content while maintaining reasonable compute and power consumption levels. As a result, people who use our products can enjoy high-quality video at much lower bandwidth.

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Engineering at Meta

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Such predictions become even more complex when the compute engines aren’t ready or when changes in network topology and bandwidth become necessary. How Meta leverages Chakra execution traces At Meta, we collect execution traces from our production servers every day.

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Kentik

MARCH 15, 2023

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) DDoS attacks are cyber attacks that most often have the purpose of causing application downtime. These attacks aim to overwhelm a service’s bandwidth capabilities with prohibitively high traffic volumes. Application layer. Application layer. Protocol-based.

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Confluent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

This blog post goes over: The complexities that users will run into when self-managing Apache Kafka on the cloud and how users can benefit from building event streaming applications with a fully managed service for Apache Kafka. Key characteristics of a fully managed service that you can trust for production and mission-critical applications.

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CloudFaire

JANUARY 2, 2025

When the media content arrives at the Cloudflare server servicing the connection, it is first handled by a Spectrum application. In any case, Spectrum forwards all connections to the ingest service running on the same server. BANDWIDTH=149084,AVERAGE-BANDWIDTH=145135,SCORE=1.0,FRAME-RATE=30.000,AUDIO="group_audio"

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Its a lot of time spent driving multiple CLIs to produce an outcome which is highly resistant to contemporary concepts of application classification, identity awareness, flexibility and visibility. Instead of playing with DiffServ bits our customers define bandwidth classes with their numerical priority and limits.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Withenterprisesmigrating to the cloud andadoptinga work-from-anywhere model,BCPtoday must also include continual access to cloud applications and support for remote users. Yet, the traditional network architecture (MPLS connectivity, VPN servers, etc.) wasnt built with cloud services and remote users in mind.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Optimization has always been about overcoming latency, jitter, packet loss, and bandwidth limitations. However, in recent years bandwidth has become much less of an issue for most enterprises. Lower dollar-per-bit costs of bandwidth and apps that incorporate data duplication and compression are big drivers of this shift.

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Confluent

MAY 13, 2019

Second, none of them yet provide the complete event streaming experience that developers need to build event-driven applications—that is, developers do not live by Kafka alone. They have none of the elasticity, flexible pricing, strong SLAs, or rich platform ecosystem that you need if you are trying to build scalable systems in the cloud.

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Confluent

MARCH 4, 2019

And on top of all that, we need something that can deliver this data for as many applications as necessary, in real time, concurrently and reliably. The startup selected to build Genesis on the cloud had explained how hard refactoring an application to run in another cloud provider is when the code is written to run in a specific one.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 3, 2018

Business critical applications Important question to ask: where are your business critical applications located — in an in-house data center or in the cloud? Depending on the answer, the bandwidth, speed, latency and performance requirements will differ. In recent years, we see cloud migration on a large scale.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The growth of SaaS applications, Shadow IT and work from anywhere have therefore driven a rapid adoption of cloud-delivered cybersecurity services. They protect applications, data and users from North-South (incoming and outgoing) cyber threats. Cato SSE 360 offers a modular way to implement East-West traffic protection.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

But while UC brings the cost and complexity of hosting and maintaining server infrastructure in the enterprise datacenters, UCaaS avoids those problems, putting UC in the cloud. Most enterprise data networks are still optimized for a computing model in which the bulk of applications reside in the datacenter. The answer?

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Mixpanel

JULY 21, 2020

This means Mixpanel doesn’t add any new functionality to your product; it simply makes it possible (and easy) to measure how users interact with any application by collecting discrete user behaviors as data, and storing that data securely in the cloud. Do we want Mixpanel to track behaviors on the client side, or server side?

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Reduced Packet Loss – SD-WAN or SASE use packet loss compensation technologies to strengthen loss-sensitive applications. This is especially challenging for applications that offer voice, video or other real-time or mission-critical services. They also automatically choose the optimum path to minimize packet loss.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 22, 2022

Accelerated Application Migration to the Cloud As more teams require access to applications and infrastructure in the cloud, IT teams need to find ways to manage user and service access, deal with Shadow IT and enforce cloud policies from legacy networks. This is essential for ensuring secure connectivity and business continuity.

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Kentik

JULY 19, 2021

In this multi-part blog series, I’ll help you learn how you can use synthetic monitoring to proactively track the performance and health of your networks, applications and services — with the ultimate goal of helping you drive real business outcomes. Logging into an application. IP address, server, host, web page, etc.),

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Mixpanel

JULY 21, 2020

This means Mixpanel doesn’t add any new functionality to your product; it simply makes it possible (and easy) to measure how users interact with any application by collecting discrete user behaviors as data, and storing that data securely in the cloud. Do we want Mixpanel to track behaviors on the client side, or server side?

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Kentik

JANUARY 13, 2021

Sometimes, your connections don’t have enough bandwidth. Ping is a utility that’s available on practically every system, be it a desktop, server, router, or switch. If you start by looking at the application, you’ll be masking potential physical connection problems such as interface errors or routing issues happening at layer 3.

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CATO Networks

MAY 22, 2023

As long as data gets from point A to point B and applications continue to function, everything is assumed to be okay. Devices, applications, and users are granted access to corporate resources based on a variety of criteria including identity, device posture, geo-location, time-of-day, etc.,

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

For background, memcached is an open source software package that provides an in-memory caching layer often deployed as a component of web application stacks to reduce load on traditional databases for frequently-accessed objects. The memcached server then generates a flood of reply traffic toward the spoofed victim IP.

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Engineering at Meta

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

To support the billions of people around the globe using our technologies, we need to be confident that every server — in every data center — knows and agrees what time it is, as accurately and precisely as possible. The more servers there are between endpoints, the more important synchronization is. They’re like insulation on pipes.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 30, 2019

We all get the concept: to transmit data over a TCP/IP network like the Internet requires the data be broken down into small packets (usually less than 1500 bytes) containing the relevant application data (payload) and headers. Misconfigured switches, routers, servers, or firewalls can lead to dropped packets. tracert/traceroute.

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