Packet Pushers

JULY 24, 2023

This week on Network Break we discuss the launch of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium and its intention to revamp Ethernet to support AI and HPC workloads. This week on Network Break we discuss the launch of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium and its intention to revamp Ethernet to support AI and HPC workloads.

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Packet Pushers

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk Ethernet switches and wireless APs with sponsor Fortinet. Best known for firewalls and other security products, Fortinet has a full line of switches for the campus and data center, as well as a robust portfolio of wireless APs. Yes, Fortinet. Fortinet is here to make its case.

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Kentik

JANUARY 6, 2021

Campus : Ethernet switches, layer 2 and 3 switches, hubs and network extenders. Wireless access points and controller. Access and transit networks, edge and exchange points, CDNs. 4G, 5G : Including evolved packet core (v)EPC, Multi-access edge computing (MEC), optical transport switches (ONT/OLT), Radio Access Network (RAN).

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 1, 2019

Wireless services appear attractive but often have high latency and are metered services. For example, 4G services can suffer high packet loss, where Ethernet can often drop packets. The old model of placing a big firewall at a single ingress/egress point no longer works as every branch and mobile worker creates backdoors.

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

[link] Limited Connectivity Capabilities Most off-the-shelf vCPE/uCPE hardware features Ethernet ports to connect to the WAN, but little more. A virtual device representing a service demarcation might thus have a VPN VNF, a firewall VNF, and so forth. “The trend is a bit scary,” he said.

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