NW Kings

JANUARY 7, 2025

In this blog, we will explore what static routes are, how they differ from dynamic routes, and how to configure them on routers like Cisco devices. Low Overhead : Static routes do not consume bandwidth for routing updates or require additional CPU resources to compute paths. How can I configure static routes? 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.2

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Kentik

MAY 29, 2018

Modern networks are made up of a collection of routers, switches, firewalls, and other network elements. Bandwidth utilization at various points in the network. Measure and analyze traffic metrics to establish performance and capacity baselines for future bandwidth consumption. Capacity of current network infrastructure.

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Router-switch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Whether you’re a data center admin or network engineer, mastering effective techniques is key. Discover how to fine-tune your NVIDIA Infiniband… The post Top Tips for Debugging and Optimizing NVIDIA Networking Performance first appeared on Router Switch Blog.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 3, 2018

For distributed enterprises, a network technology solution must support connections to all of the locations, data centers, and cloud partners anywhere in the world. Business critical applications Important question to ask: where are your business critical applications located — in an in-house data center or in the cloud?

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Akins IT

OCTOBER 26, 2001

While users traditionally connected back to the corporate data center to access business applications, they are now accessing those same applications in the cloud. The next stage was the introduction of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), which provided an IP-based means of carrying voice, video, and data on the same network.

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Kentik

JANUARY 29, 2020

Most organizations have a cloud strategy, this could augment data centers or replace them entirely, but regardless of the organizational goals, the network is increasingly important when cloud is being adopted. Flow can also be used to understand consumption of bandwidth in a more granular manner.

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Kentik

JUNE 19, 2019

Virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) is a technology that allows multiple instances of a routing table to coexist within the same router at the same time. You can think of VRFs as “logical routers” residing in one physical router, serving to automatically segregate the traffic. The VRF Traffic Visibility Challenge.

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Kentik

JANUARY 29, 2020

Most organizations have a cloud strategy, this could augment data centers or replace them entirely, but regardless of the organizational goals, the network is increasingly important when cloud is being adopted. Flow can also be used to understand consumption of bandwidth in a more granular manner.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 26, 2016

There isnt going to be a shiny new router that would magically solve it all. IP Routings Historical Baggage: Simplistic Data Plane Whether the traffic is voice, video, HTTP, or email, the Internet is made of IP packets. Packets hop from router to router, only aware of their next hop and their ultimate destination.

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Kentik

APRIL 24, 2023

We believe a data-driven approach to network operations is the key to maintaining the mechanism that delivers applications from data centers, public clouds, and containerized architectures to actual human beings. Ultimately, we’re solving a network operations problem using a data-driven approach. More data!

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 7, 2018

SDNs first were introduced in the data center with the goal of increasing network by separating the data plane from the control plane. The policies and routing intelligence would run in one or more servers (controllers), which would instruct the networking elements forwarding the packets (switches and routers).

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

SD-WANs reduce bandwidth costs, no doubt, but enterprises are still left having to address important issues around cloud, mobility, and security. The Problem of MPLS Bandwidth costs remain the most obvious problem facing MPLS services. Bandwidth upgrades and changes can also take weeks. SD-WANs automate these and other steps.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 4, 2018

For your business to stay ahead of the pack, you should be looking to improve network and security infrastructure to have the flexibility and strength to handle not just todays bandwidth demands, but tomorrows demands as well. However, MPLS traffic from the service provider to the on-premises routers is notoriously expensive.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 17, 2018

At customer premise-based data centers, traditional Internet connectivity might offer a 2x 4x price/bit benefit over MPLS, while at colocation facilities, the price/bit benefits are typically in the 10x 50x range. Waiting on critical additional MPLS bandwidth results in project delays and lost revenue.

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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. Whether it’s with NetFlow, sFlow, or IPFIX , you’ll be able to see who’s talking to whom and how with flow data going to a flow collector for analysis.

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Kentik

MAY 28, 2018

Modern networks are made up of a collection of routers, switches, firewalls, and other network elements. Understand the impact of network bandwidth utilization from a user’s perspective, including application performance KPIs and SLAs. Measure and analyze traffic metrics to establish performance and capacity baselines. Key Metrics.

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Engineering at Meta

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Meta is deploying a timing protocol, Precision Time Protocol (PTP) , that will offer new levels of accuracy and precision to our networks and data centers. After a successful pilot, we’ve started extending PTP into all our data centers. The quality of the network router switches and network interfaces.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

For example, remote office employees needed access to latency sensitive enterprise applications like ERP, CRM and Virtual Desktops that were hosted in the companys data center. Unmanaged Internet-based global routing, which I will refer to as the middle mile, is a convoluted mess of communication service providers, links and routers.

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Kentik

OCTOBER 31, 2018

you lose ownership of the hardware, including servers, disks, routers/switches and so on. you don’t want to deal with the overhead of building your own data center). private data center and public cloud infrastructure), or multi-public-cloud IaaS (AWS+Azure+GCP+etc.), Sounds like you’re losing control, right?

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CATO Networks

MARCH 5, 2017

SD-WANs Arent Enough Leveraging Direct Internet Access (DIA) allows SD-WANs to improve agility and reduce bandwidth costs, but fails to address, and sometimes exacerbates, other critical challenges. DIA also means IT can reduce their monthly bandwidth spend by as much as 90 percent.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 1, 2020

The idea is simple: a direct connection to the cloud data center overcomes many of the network challenges related to accessing cloud assets. The challenge in the underlying causes of packet loss can be anything from overworked routers to network congestion to software bugs.

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CATO Networks

MARCH 21, 2019

These routine work activities place special demands on the network pertaining to bandwidth, response times and data security. Its expensive and time-consuming for an engineer to visit branch locations around the globe to install firewalls and routers. For example, product developers in the U.S.

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Kentik

MAY 10, 2018

At phoenixNAP, we faced a similar issue as we opened new data centers worldwide and as our customer base grew. This allows us to scale bandwidth and improve network performance characteristics like latency and loss as our clients’ business grow. Kentik also monitors router and switch ports for utilization.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Egnyte Connect platform employs 3 data centers to fulfill requests from millions of users across the world. To add elasticity, reliability and durability, these data centers are connected to Google Cloud platform using high speed, secure Google Interconnect network. On prem data processing. Data interdependence.

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