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Cisco, Nutanix strengthen joint HCI package

Network World

The system can be centrally managed via Cisco’s cloud-based Intersight management platform, and it supports Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) and VMware vSphere hypervisors.

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Koch CTO teams up to get cloud networking right

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud deployments typically come in the form of multiple accounts, including multiple LAN segments that need to be connected. Instead, Koch’s engineering team set about virtualizing the physical transports to build the SD-LAN and firewall within the cloud rather than in the data center.

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What is SONiC and how can enterprises try the open-source NOS?

Network World

Vendors embrace SONiC The vendor community supporting SONiC has been growing and includes Dell, Arista, Nokia, Alibaba, Comcast, Cisco, Broadcom, Juniper Apstra, Edgecore, Innovium, Nvidia, Celetica, and VMware.

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Product Review: Paessler PRTG Network Monitor

Galido

Monitoring of LAN, WAN, VPN, and distributed sites. Monitoring of virtual servers. SLA monitoring (service level agreement). Monitoring QoS (Quality of service, for example, to monitor VoIP). Environmental monitoring. Extensive event logging. IPv6 support. Monitoring without agents. Flexible Alerts. Various user interfaces. Detailed reports.

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Telcos spearheading industry transformation with edge

Dataconomy

Noteworthy examples include VMware Cloud on AWS and other comparable cloud platforms. Fog computing places greater emphasis on intelligence within the local area network (LAN) environment. Cloud edge: The first type, known as cloud edge, encompasses the expansive data centers operated by cloud service providers such as AWS and GCP.

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Interop Liveblog: IPv6 Microsegmentation

Scott Lowe

According to Ivan, the root cause of all these problems originates with the fact that all LAN infrastructure today emulates 40 year old thick coax cable. VMware NSX has a stateful IPv6 firewall that provides RA guard and ND inspection services. The traditional fix is to add kludges….er, Microsoft also has a stateful IPv6 firewall.).

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Introduction to Networking: Part 2, A Few More Basics

Scott Lowe

A virtual LAN , aka a VLAN , allows you to have this ability. Similar Posts: VMware ESX, NIC Teaming, and VLAN Trunking with HP ProCurve. This means that, by default, every host plugged into a switch will automatically be part of the same broadcast domain. But what if you wanted to have multiple broadcast domains on the same switch?

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