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Resilience and Redundancy in Networking

Kentik

This includes the ability to: Dynamically adjust to changes in network topology Detect and respond to outages Route around faults in order to maintain connectivity and service levels. IP address abstraction and failover capabilities with DNS Domain Name System (DNS) is a system for mapping domain names to IP addresses.

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Securing Your Network Against Attacks: Prevent, Detect, and Mitigate Cyberthreats

Kentik

Cyberthreat strategies have evolved in step with modern cloud networks, often using cheap, virtualized cloud resources to exploit the threat surface topology I briefly described above. The attacker can spoof IP addresses, DNS, HTTPS headers, and more to deceive users into interacting with compromised applications. RPKI status checks.

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Speeding Up the Web: A Comprehensive Guide to Content Delivery Networks and Embedded Caching

Kentik

Well, that depends on the network topology of the network but also on which CDN and how that CDN maps the end users to a cluster. They heavily rely on BGP (Border Gateway Protocol, the protocol that networks use to exchange routes) to define which cache an end user is directed to. Where is site.com ? Where is site.com ?

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IT Managers: Read This Before Leaving Your MPLS Provider

CATO Networks

Employees constantly complain about performance While traditional hub-and-spoke networking topology comes with its advantages, when users backhaul to the data center they clog the network with bandwidth-heavy applications like VOIP and file transfer.

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