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Network Architect vs Network Engineer

The Crazy Programmer

And they feel confident to work with LAN, WAN, and also the cloud networks. Their primary role is to ensure and design the secure network design and infrastructure that fulfills its goal. And they are responsible for building the infrastructure as per the design that the company approves. Who is Network Engineer?

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Closing the Network Performance Monitoring Gap and Achieving Full Network Visibility

Kentik

That assumption worked in a traditional scenario when monolithic applications meant that there were relatively few points in the network where the LAN met the WAN and important communication was happening. But cloud realities break that assumption. There are way more connectivity points that matter. routers and switches).

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The Why and How of Interface Classification

Kentik

Examples of policies might include: - a range of IP addresses may be used exclusively for transit customers; - a range of RFC1918 IP addresses may be used exclusively for interfaces on CDN servers behind a load balancer; - a range may correspond to the LAN of a particular Internet Exchange.

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