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Facebook’s historic outage, explained

Kentik

Yesterday the world’s largest social media platform suffered a global outage of all of its services for nearly six hours. Included in the withdrawn prefixes were the IP addresses of Facebook’s authoritative DNS servers, rendering them unreachable. That’s where network observability comes in. So what happened?

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How to find applications with NetFlow

Kentik

Back in the 1990s, NetFlow was introduced on Cisco routers as a means to collect information about IP network traffic as it enters or exits an interface. Since then, network flows have been one of the best ways to gain insight into traffic. Lots of applications use these ports today, including DNS lookups and email.

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23 Good-To-Know Networking Acronyms and Abbreviations

CATO Networks

You probably know what WAN stands for, but what about all of the other acronyms and abbreviations in the networking world? SASE SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) converges network and security functionalities into a single cloud-based solution. According to Gartner that coined the term, SASE is the future of network security.

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Resilience and Redundancy in Networking

Kentik

Core Concepts Resilience in networking is the ability of a network to withstand and quickly recover from failures or changes in its environment. 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.

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News in Networking: Transatlantic Typos, Money in the Cloud, and Pandora's New Visibility

Kentik

Lastly, listen to Pandora’s head of network operations and engineering talk about how the music-streaming company is getting better network performance for better customer experience. Watch how they’ve added network visibility in this video. A typo in one of its transatlantic internet backbone links caused the issue.

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Network AF, Episode 4: Untangling business in the ISP industry with Elliot Noss

Kentik

Today on the episode 4 of the Network AF podcast , host Avi Freedman welcomes his longtime friend Elliot Noss. Elliot has seen the entire computing and networking industry change during his 25 years at Tucows, including how people connect. Eventually, Infonautics would rebrand as Tucows with Elliot as its figurehead.

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Kentik True Origin Brings CDN Insights to ISPs

Kentik

By the end of this post you should have a pretty good idea of how True Origin helps network operations and engineering, particularly for Internet Service Providers. The content comes into the ISP network from various sources via various paths with varying cost and performance. Is it linked to a specific content provider?

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