Kentik

JANUARY 31, 2023

Network observability is critical. You need the ability to answer any question about your network—across clouds, on-prem, edge locations, and user devices—quickly and easily. But network observability is not always easy. And once you have that raw telemetry data, you need to interpret it. are not always easy to answer.

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Network Networking Application Data Centers 105

Juniper

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Official Juniper Networks Blogs The year in review: Delivering simplicity, productivity, reliability, and security with AI-Native Networking The past year at Juniper has been exciting to say the least. Junipers AIOps simplifies network management, empowering IT teams to shift from reactive to proactive management.

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Engineering at Meta

OCTOBER 15, 2024

These innovations include a new AI platform, cutting-edge open rack designs, and advanced network fabrics and components. Networking and bandwidth play an important role in ensuring the clusters’ performance. This represents a growth of more than an order of magnitude compared to today’s networks!

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Bandwidth Network Networking Data Centers 109

Kentik

APRIL 4, 2023

When evaluating solutions, whether to internal problems or those of our customers, I like to keep the core metrics fairly simple: will this reduce costs, increase performance, or improve the network’s reliability? It’s often taken for granted by network specialists that there is a trade-off among these three facets. Durability.

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Engineering at Meta

MARCH 12, 2024

We are sharing details on the hardware, network, storage, design, performance, and software that help us extract high throughput and reliability for various AI workloads. Today, we’re sharing details on two versions of our 24,576-GPU data center scale cluster at Meta. We use this cluster design for Llama 3 training.

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ByteByteGo

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

However, Mark Zuckerberg saw Instagram’s potential as a mobile-first social network and wanted to integrate it into Facebook’s ecosystem while allowing it to function independently. After joining Facebook, Instagram migrated from AWS to Facebook’s data centers, preparing it for its next phase of hypergrowth.

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Kentik

JANUARY 13, 2021

The Network is the Key. The network is down!” — I’m sure you heard that before. Despite your best efforts as a network engineer, network failures happen, and you have to fix them. Network troubleshooting becomes easier if your network is observable. Network Troubleshooting Defined.

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Network Networking TCP Protocol 114

DCNN Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Equipped with a 230kV dedicated gas insulated substation (GIS) with a 120 MW capacity, the data centre park ensures a reliable power supply. The post CtrlS launches data centre park in Chennai appeared first on Data Centre & Network News. For more from CtrlS Datacenters, click here.

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The Network DNA

JUNE 10, 2024

Why is Cisco ACI replacing traditional networks? Companies are increasingly moving from traditional networks to SDN-based networks. 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.

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Engineering at Meta

JUNE 12, 2024

Supporting GenAI at scale has meant rethinking how our software, hardware, and network infrastructure come together. Optimal connectivity between GPUs: Large-scale model training involves transferring vast amounts of data between GPUs in a synchronized fashion. requires revisiting trade-offs made for other types of workloads.

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CloudFaire

JANUARY 3, 2025

Aggregation : MPTCP can aggregate the bandwidth of many network interfaces. For example, in a data center scenario, it's common to use interface bonding. MPTCP, by being able to launch many subflows, can expose greater overall bandwidth. They need to be added and removed every time networks change.

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Kentik

JANUARY 28, 2021

In part 2 of this series, I talked about the range of network devices and observation points that generate telemetry data. Over time, this range has expanded, and networks are more diverse than ever. In this blog, I discuss the telemetry data itself. Why is my bandwidth bill so high? Telemetry Types.

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VIAVI Solutions

AUGUST 30, 2024

1.6Tb class modules are now being developed to meet the raw bandwidth and bandwidth density demands of applications including factory scale AI and hyperscale computing. Based on emerging standards from IEEE and OIF, they build upon a solid 800Gb ecosystem and include several new features both evolutionary and revolutionary.

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Bandwidth Application Ethernet Data Centers 94

Kentik

MAY 29, 2018

Modern networks are made up of a collection of routers, switches, firewalls, and other network elements. From a high-level perspective, network operators engage in network capacity planning to understand some key network metrics: Types of network traffic. Capacity of current network infrastructure.

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How Funky

AUGUST 1, 2023

Broadcom presented at Networking Field Day 32 on July 26, 2023 and they presented on their AI Networking solutions. These are products and architectures that address the needs of those building out AI data center focused networks. Obviously the design will work for regular data center workloads too.

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Kentik

MARCH 13, 2023

Whether it’s as simple as ensuring solid connectivity with a SaaS provider or designing a robust, secure, hybrid, and multi-cloud architecture, the enterprise wide area network is all about connecting us to our resources, wherever they are. So what does this mean for today’s enterprise network engineer?

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 3, 2018

And perhaps nowhere in his statement holds more true than in the world of network technologies. Understanding Your Companys Needs In the complex world of network technologies, how can you maximize the value of your buy? Depending on the answer, the bandwidth, speed, latency and performance requirements will differ.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 6, 2018

The world of networking has a language of its own which is continually evolving as new technologies emerge, innovative ways of delivering network services are deployed, and global connectivity becomes increasingly essential. Internet Backhaul moving large amounts of data between major data aggregation points.

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VIAVI Solutions

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

As we know, fiber optic cables are now the backbone of modern communication networks, offering unmatched bandwidth and reliability. As cables age, network owners and operators encounter several challenges that can impact the overall health and performance of their networks.

Network 52

Network Networking Bandwidth Data Centers 52

Kentik

APRIL 15, 2020

SD-WAN, one of the most disruptive network technologies of the past few years, has a fast rate of adoption. Best practices include: Baselining traffic bandwidths. Discovering what applications are running between sites, the internet, and to the data center. Identify and track network health. Ongoing operation.

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Kentik

APRIL 24, 2023

What do network engineers working in the trenches, slinging packets, untangling coils of fiber, and spending too much time in the hot aisle really want from all their efforts? They want a rock-solid, reliable, stable network that doesn’t keep them awake at night and ensures great application performance. The answer is simple.

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Network Networking DNS Data Centers 52

CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

That means making sure the wide area network (WAN) that connects branch offices, data centers, cloud services and SaaS applications can handle the connectivity needs of digitally empowered global organizations. Software-defined Wide Area Networks ( SD-WAN ) can get the job done. Here is why.

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Router-switch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

In today’s high-speed networking world, optimizing and troubleshooting performance is crucial, especially with high-performance equipment like NVIDIA Infiniband switches. Whether you’re a data center admin or network engineer, mastering effective techniques is key.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 22, 2023

The corporate WAN connects an organizations distributed branch locations, data center, cloud-based infrastructure, and remote workers. The WAN needs to offer high-performance and reliable network connectivity to ensure all users and applications can communicate effectively.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 2, 2019

In 2014, Gartner analysts wrote a Foundational Report (G00260732, Communication Hubs Improve WAN Performance) providing guidance to customers on deploying communication hubs, or cloud-based network hubs, outside the enterprise data center. This helps deliver predictable network performance. using secure tunnels.

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Global Data

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Telecommunication carriers have always been responsible for their network infrastructure across both fixed and mobile networks. Hyperscalers can also draw strength from working with telcos and leverage their experience and expertise around network infrastructure. Or should they look to collaborate and coexist together?

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Kentik

JANUARY 29, 2020

There is a lot of confusion regarding the two primary data sets in network management: SNMP and flow. SNMP is used to collect metadata and metrics about a network device. This critical technology is a basic building block of modeling, measuring, and understanding the network. What is SNMP? What is Flow? When is SNMP Used?

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CATO Networks

APRIL 4, 2018

When it comes to the enterprise network, decisions need to be made with cost, performance, security, and future plans in mind. Enterprise networking is moving from traditional hub-and-spoke WAN architectures to infrastructure that must support the migration of critical applications to the cloud.

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Kentik

JANUARY 29, 2020

There is a lot of confusion regarding the two primary data sets in network management: SNMP and flow. SNMP is used to collect metadata and metrics about a network device. This critical technology is a basic building block of modeling, measuring, and understanding the network. What is SNMP? What is Flow? When is SNMP Used?

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Port Network Networking Data Centers 78

The Network DNA

OCTOBER 8, 2024

On-Prem Datacenter to AWS Cloud Connectivity Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) is a networking solution that allows you to set boundaries around your AWS resources. This isolated area allows you to launch resources in a virtual network that you have defined. Load balancers are important part of the Network ?

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

While BCP is a company-wide effort, IT plays an especially important role in maintaining business operations, with the task of ensuring redundancy measures and backup for data centers in case of an outage. Yet, the traditional network architecture (MPLS connectivity, VPN servers, etc.) The same is true for cloud connections.

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CloudFaire

JANUARY 2, 2025

So lets talk about Stream Lives design, and how it leverages the distributed nature of Cloudflares network, rather than centralized locations as many other live services do. Hence, there are two sides to this: ingesting data from broadcasters and delivering encoded content to viewers.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2017

Weve been discussing the impact the dissolving perimeter has had on networking and IT. Rather than IT playing this kind of shell game on itself, IT should evaluate WAN architectures holistically and look at the quality of experience, availability, security, cost, agility, manageability, and extensibility of the network.

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Kentik

MAY 28, 2018

Modern networks are made up of a collection of routers, switches, firewalls, and other network elements. From a high-level perspective, network operators engage in network capacity planning to understand some key network metrics: Types of network traffic. Capacity of current network infrastructure.

Network 40

Network Networking Bandwidth Data Centers 40

CATO Networks

AUGUST 18, 2022

Catos cloud was built from the ground up to provide converged networking and security globally. Each piece of context can typically be used for policy matching across both networking and security capabilities within Catos SASE Cloud. Cato Network Rules are pre-defined to meet common use-cases.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 1, 2020

Often, when speaking with network managers responsible for infrastructure within a multinational or global enterprise, I hear first-hand accounts of the impact of sluggish network performance. Similarly, slow networks can lead to painfully slow file transfers for large media files or CAD (computer-aided design).

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Network Networking TCP MPLS 52

Engineering at Meta

MAY 22, 2024

To address this issue, the cryptography community has been working on a new class of cryptosystems known as post-quantum cryptography (PQC), which are expected to withstand quantum attacks but can be less efficient (in particular, communication bandwidth wise) than its classical counterparts.

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