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Network Architect vs Network Engineer

The Crazy Programmer

The massive growth in internet technology has provided several career opportunities for young technology enthusiasts. And they feel confident to work with LAN, WAN, and also the cloud networks. These accessories can be load balancers, routers, switches, and VPNs. Should you be a network engineer vs network architect?

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Closing the Network Performance Monitoring Gap and Achieving Full Network Visibility

Kentik

For one, cloud refers to the move to distributed application architectures, where components are no longer all resident on the same server or data center, but instead are spread across networks, commonly including the Internet, and are accessed via API calls. The effect on network traffic is profound. routers and switches).

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BGP Routing Tutorial Series: Part 3

Kentik

The remainder of possible ASN values available for Internet routing range from 1 through to 64,511 (except 23,456). One more clarification before we start configuring: BGP can be used internally (iBGP) within an AS to manage routes, and externally (eBGP) to route between ASes, which is what makes possible the Internet itself.

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The Why and How of Interface Classification

Kentik

Inbound traffic: The flow represents ingress traffic from a peer, transit provider, Internet Exchange, etc. You also need to be able to slice traffic by categories of connectivity: transit, Internet Exchange peering, direct peering (free or paid), long distance backbone, metropolitan backbone, etc. DESTINATION = External.

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