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CCNA vs CCNP – Detailed Guide and Differences

The Crazy Programmer

CCNA and CCNP, both are Cisco approved certification courses, which are very popular among those who seek a career in the computer networking line. Cisco is a very reputed and well-settled organization that manufactures and sells network-related equipment and solutions. Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA).

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Facebook’s historic outage, explained

Kentik

According to a statement published last night, Facebook Engineering wrote, “Configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication.” That’s where network observability comes in. See for yourself.

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The (Net)Flow That Kentik Makes Go: Know Your Traffic Flow Data Protocols

Kentik

In networking terms, a “flow” defines a uni-directional set of packets sharing common attributes such as source and destination IP, source and destination ports, IP protocol, and type of service. J-Flow : J-Flow is a flow monitoring implementation from Juniper Networks. Flow Data Variations. RFlow is based on NetFlow v5.

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Optimizing Long?—?Haul TCP Throughout

taos

Non-Optimized Performance Without specific performance optimizations for high-bandwidth long-haul networks, TCP throughput is a function of network latency. Window Scaling IETF RFC 1323 defines TCP window scaling, as an optional feature to improve performance over “Long, Fat Networks”. Optimizing Performance?—?Window

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