CATO Networks

APRIL 26, 2016

There isnt going to be a shiny new router that would magically solve it all. Packets hop from router to router, only aware of their next hop and their ultimate destination. Packets hop from router to router, only aware of their next hop and their ultimate destination. The router doesnt know if its congested.

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Kentik

JANUARY 29, 2020

SNMP data is also used by network engineers to troubleshoot reported problems along with network architects to do things like capacity planning. The flow analytics are used to make decisions on how traffic is being sent or received to other internet-connected peers via traffic engineering and optimization.

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Kentik

JANUARY 29, 2020

SNMP data is also used by network engineers to troubleshoot reported problems along with network architects to do things like capacity planning. The flow analytics are used to make decisions on how traffic is being sent or received to other internet-connected peers via traffic engineering and optimization.

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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

JUNE 4, 2017

As a result, SD-WAN adopters have remained chained to their MPLS services, paying exorbitant bandwidth fees just to deliver these core applications. Part of that has to do with delivering a managed services, which requires more engineering and operations than unmanaged Internet service, but thats not the full story.

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Kentik

JANUARY 13, 2021

Despite your best efforts as a network engineer, network failures happen, and you have to fix them. Sometimes, your connections don’t have enough bandwidth. No network engineer can troubleshoot without being prepared with their tools and telemetry. The Network is the Key. The network is down!” — I’m sure you heard that before.

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Kentik

MARCH 13, 2017

Their network teams must meet the service performance expectations of large populations of resident students who consume lots of bandwidth. The combination of multi-homing, high bandwidth demands, and unpredictable traffic patterns makes comprehensive visibility essential for higher education networks.

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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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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? Some of these devices an enterprise network engineer owns and manages, and a lot of it they don’t. The answer is simple. So how do we get there?

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Kentik

APRIL 24, 2017

Historically, however, most of the testing, opinion, and coverage has been based on enterprise use cases and fairly low-bandwidth assumptions. In this post we’ll take a new look, focusing instead on use cases and bandwidths that are more representative of — and relevant to — large internet edge and datacenter operations.

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Kentik

APRIL 12, 2023

Network telemetry is the process of collecting and analyzing data from network devices, including switches, routers, firewalls, and servers, to gain visibility into network traffic and performance. These roles include data specialists, data engineers, and principal data engineers. How is DataOps different from DevOps?

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Kentik

MAY 31, 2023

In this article, I want to underscore why NetOps has an integral role (and more responsibility) in delivering on the promise of reliability and highlight a few examples of how engineering for reliability can make networks less reliable. This is no small feat and can lead to significant overhead and resource consumption.

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Kentik

MAY 16, 2018

Performance is a key driver behind the movement, with 5G enabling: Greater throughput -- mobile broadband with bandwidth ranging from 50 Mbps to 10 Gbps. Standards organizations, including the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), are also stepping in to codify 5G specifications.

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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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Kentik

MAY 23, 2021

These answers are also required to be consumable by a broader audience than the network expert, breaking the boundaries of usual Net/Dev/Ops teams to support modern software engineering, finance and executive teams, to name a few. The usual place for this is either: Router configuration repositories. Silos and Tools.

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Engineering at Meta

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The quality of the network router switches and network interfaces. PTP’s additional precision and accuracy will be vital as 5G brings higher than ever network bandwidth to devices all over the world. To help ensure that all these clocks are in sync, engineers will deliberately add in a delay to compensate for network latency.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 2, 2022

billed on an opex model consumption-based, via a metered metric (such as ports, bandwidth or users), (not based on network devices/appliances). NaaS offerings may include elements such as network switches, routers, gateways and firewalls. Personally, I find the focus on the appliance form factor a reflection of legacy thinking.

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Kentik

APRIL 18, 2016

sFlow, which has been available in switches and routers since 2001, is the brainchild of InMon Corporation, whose continued control over the protocol is both benevolent and absolute. Also, to cut down on CPU and network bandwidth, flows are usually only “exported” on average every 10 seconds to a few minutes. The sFlow difference.

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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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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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Kentik

MAY 10, 2018

With this type of intelligence, network engineers can prevent a greater number of malicious intrusions and breaches. To provide an effective post-incident response, network engineering teams need access to detailed, relevant data from across the entire network. Traffic engineering and load balancing across locations and ISPs.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 19, 2017

Easy and Rapid Configuration For years, WAN engineering has meant learning CLIs and scripts, mastering protocols like BGP, OSPF, PBR, and more. Some companies lack the internal engineering expertise, others have the expertise, but far too many elements in their networks.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 1, 2020

For example, videoconferences between engineers and product managers on separate contents can be brought to a standstill because of packet loss or latency. 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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Kentik

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

To briefly review, Interface Classification enables an organization to quickly and efficiently assign a Connectivity Type and Network Boundary value to every interface in the network, and to store those values in the Kentik Data Engine (KDE) records of each flow that is ingested by Kentik Detect. Devices : Select all routers.

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DCNN Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2025

Within the consumer sector, tech-savvy users and smart home aficionados will upgrade to Wi-Fi 7 routers to maximise the performance of their growing array of connected devices, such as smart appliances, security systems, and entertainment systems for 8K streaming and gaming.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

This is a guest post by Kalpesh Patel , an Engineer, who for Egnyte from home. Large files or low bandwidth. Keep it simple: New engineers join every month so the goal is to have them productive from week one - a simple architecture ensures easy induction. Egnyte is a Secure Content Platform built specifically for businesses.

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