Glossary
not-so-secret decoder ring for all the acronyms and jargon we use in the networking business.
- NTP
- congestion
- access leaf
- bandwidth
- ZTP
- legacy connect
- dual homing
- hardened
- security policy
- VLAN
- out of band management
- control node
- MLAG
- cost-optimized
- peering provider
- throughput
- BGP EVPN
- PXE
- flow control
- inband management
- firewall
- White box
- PTP
- L3-4 SLB
- VRF
- chain booting
- WireGuard
- DHCP
- IoT
- IPv4
- external peering policy
- direct connection
- inter-site gateway
- prioritization
- multi-homing
- site connect
- IPv6
- jitter
- tenant traffic prioritization
- border leaf
- management network
- Intrusion Protection
- cloud gateway
- MCLAG
- internet gateway
- cloud connect
- Merchant silicon
- latency optimized path
- PoE
- NAT/PAT
- ECMP
- inter-VPC peering policy
- packet restamper
- IPAM
- packet loss
- DHCP relay
- service node
- ESI
- bootstrapping
- DNS
- VXLAN
- cluster
- Buffer budgeting
- distributed firewall
- Intra-VPC
- private connection
- latency
- immutable linux
- over-the-top operation
- service policy
- isolation policy
- chip resource management
- linear planner
- shaping
- bare-metal
- CNI
- Modified Dijkstra's
- multi-cluster gateway
- VM
- L7 gateway
- active node
- P4
- multi-cluster SVC LB
- forwarding
- multi-cluster
- application cluster
- network cluster
- CNI operator
- service load balancer
- shared resource flow
- scheduler
- commodity server
- DPU/Host CNI
- GitOps
- Data isolation
- introspection
- turn-key
- Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)
- VPC API
- resource manager
- big three
- Infiniband
- observer
- DPU-resident CNI
- Cloud Builder
- GPU Cloud
- end-to-end
- RoCEv2
- near edge
- LLM
- passive node
- Generative AI (genAI)
- AI
- VPP
- Cloud computing
- SRE
- edge computing
- RDMA
- redundancy
- scheduler node
- reserved flow
- Fabric cluster
- data plane
- PFC
- data edge
- flow controller
- forwarding pipeline
- east-west traffic
- CPU
- tenant
- control plane
- Modified A*
- resource allocator
- Hedgehog Fabric Operator
- NaaS
- AI Cloud
- Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
- back-end network
- far edge
- monitoring
- incident response
- leaf
- multi-tenancy
- buffering
- DPU
- cloud bursting
- cloud orchestration
- flow
- agent
- 5-stage CLOS network
- NCCL
- ingress
- multi-cloud
- cloud storage
- NAT
- hybrid cloud
- edge computing
- alerting
- 3-stage CLOS
- API management
- RFC7938
- CI/CD
- IPU
- cloud migration
- Open Network Fabric
- NIC
- SLA
- spine
- API gateway
- service mesh
- K3s
- CRD
- lossless
- pipeline builder
- IaC
- SLO
- microservices
- SmartNIC
- public cloud
- container orchestration
- K8s
- Adaptive Routing
- virtual private cloud
- NVMe/TCP
- cloud-native
- zero trust
- north-south traffic
- GPU
- SLI
- peering
- compute leaf
- cloud automation
- object storage
- lossy
- private cloud
- egress
- Kubernetes
- DevOps
- observability
- cloud repatriation
- operator
- BCG
- load balancing
- collapsed core
- hyperscaler
- front-end network
- CLOS