Glossary

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

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