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CCNA vs CCNP – Detailed Guide and Differences

The Crazy Programmer

CCNP focuses on Network architecture so the prime object is to create, install, and troubleshoot wide area networks (WAN) and local area networks (LAN). CCNA is the second level of Cisco’s five-level career certification process as given below: Course Coverage. Course Coverage.

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The Kentik Platform is the Future of Network Operations

Kentik

tasks required to operate today’s complex networks, which span data center, WAN, LAN, hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures. The four modules work across every type of network from the LAN, WAN, and traditional data center to public cloud and cloud-native environments that produce VPC flow log information.

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How You Should Treat the Network as Software

Dzone - DevOps

However, today’s networks are complex puzzles comprised of many different segments including access networks, data center networks, core networks, LANs internal to a physical location, WANs spread across the world, and virtualized networks, among others.

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Strategies for Managing Network Traffic from a Remote Workforce

Kentik

This could mean the users are saturating the internet connectivity or that they’ve saturated the LAN (or maybe WAN). This data is useful for Kentik’s automated capacity planning workflows and building topological maps (layer 2 and layer 3 connectivity). This keeps employees safe at home.

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Kentik Detect for FinServ Networks: Real-World Use Cases

Kentik

One of the more obvious, yet powerful uses for Kentik Detect is a dashboard that provides a comprehensive overview of network traffic across the entire infrastructure: LAN / WAN, internal data centers and public cloud. The Sankey diagram illustrates the utilization across datacenter zones, server IPs, and services.

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Closing the Network Performance Monitoring Gap and Achieving Full Network Visibility

Kentik

To quote: “Today’s typical NPMD vendors have their solutions geared toward traditional data center and branch office architecture, with the centralized hosting of applications.”. But you can’t do any of it without the instrumentation of cloud-friendly monitoring and the scalability of big data.

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Network Troubleshooting in Depth: A Complete Guide

Kentik

These are some of the most basic tasks required to operate today’s complex networks, which span data center, WAN, LAN, hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures. And everything is linked to Data Explorer if you need to really turn the query knobs to zoom way in.

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