CloudFaire

JANUARY 3, 2025

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. Typically, the server allows the client to reuse the server IP/port address. There are caveats though.

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Engineering at Meta

OCTOBER 15, 2024

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. Tbps with 64x OSFP ports, and the design is optimized without the need of retimers to achieve maximum power efficiency. version 1.2.0,

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How Funky

JULY 16, 2024

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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Kentik

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

NetFlow is the trade name known for a session sampling flow protocol invented by Cisco Systems that is widely used in the networking industry. In networking terms, a “flow” is a unidirectional set of packets sharing common attributes such as source and destination IP, source and destination ports, IP protocol, and type of service.

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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. Can you imagine Amazon offering AWS where virtual machines are deployed per host, run a vendor-specific operating system, and managed by vendor-specific tools? What a headache.

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