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