Glossary

not-so-secret decoder ring for all the acronyms and jargon we use in the networking business.

• passive node
• reserved flow
• redundancy
• tenant
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• AI
• LLM
• back-end network
• RoCEv2
• far edge
• control plane
• forwarding pipeline
• GitOps
• Cloud Builder
• scheduler node
• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
• AI Cloud
• end-to-end
• Modified A*
• pipeline builder
• introspection
• Data isolation
• flow controller
• cloud-native
• CPU
• observability
• Fabric cluster
• DPU-resident CNI
• turn-key
• data edge
• data plane
• Cloud computing
• edge computing
• big three
• Generative AI (genAI)
• resource allocator
• SRE
• VPC API
• near edge
• Hedgehog Fabric Operator
• Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN)
• NaaS
• east-west traffic
• observer
• PFC
• VPP
• resource manager
• GPU Cloud
• RDMA
• Infiniband
• public cloud