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What is your answer to "What is Ethernet?"

The Network DNA

What is your answer or explanation if someone asks, What is Ethernet? Lets try to learn what Ethernet is here in this small article. Ethernet is the group of network technologies that are used at layer 1 and layer 2 of the OSI layer. Sometimes new learner dont get the precise answer to this question.

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CCNA: TCP/IP Stack

The Network DNA

It specifies how data should be packetized, addressed, transmitted, and routed across the network. TCP/IP stack has four layers Application, Transport, Internet, and Network Interface. The OSI Layer Data Link and Physical layer maps to the Network Interface layer of the TCP/IP stack.

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Multi-Path TCP: revolutionizing connectivity, one path at a time

CloudFaire

Aggregation : MPTCP can aggregate the bandwidth of many network interfaces. For example, in a data center scenario, it's common to use interface bonding. A single flow can make use of just one physical interface. I repeatedly enabled and disabled Wi-Fi and Ethernet. I was less lucky with the Ubuntu v6.8

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OCP Summit 2024: The open future of networking hardware for AI

Engineering at Meta

The DSF fabric supports an open and standard Ethernet-based RoCE interface to endpoints and accelerators across several xPUs and NICs, including Meta’s MTIA as well as from several vendors. FBNIC’s key features include: Network interfaces for up to 4×100/4×50/4×25 GE with SerDes support for up to 56G PAM4 per lane.

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Intel - Is it an IPU or a DPU or what?

How Funky

Intel has developed and sold classic Ethernet Network Interface Cards (NICs) for a long time, but many might not be as familiar with their product offerings in the SmartNIC and more advanced NIC categories. There were two features in the IPU that are something infrastructure engineers should know about.

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NetFlow vs. sFlow

Kentik

It is used to record statistical, infrastructure, routing, and other metadata about traffic traversing an sFlow-enabled network device. sFlow can also export metrics derived from time-based sampling of network interfaces or other system statistics. Ethernet interface counters: records traffic statistics on an Ethernet interface.

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How DoorDash Secures Data Transfer Between Cloud and On-Premise Data Centers

DoorDash Engineering

Establishing private connections using Direct Connect Once we understood the requirements and chose the network facility used for establishing the connection between our payment microservice and the third-party payment processor, the next step is to expand our current network infrastructure and implement the Direct Connect solution.