TCP

April 28, 2023

DATA CENTER

Cisco Nexus 9000 Intelligent Buffers in a VXLAN/EVPN Fabric

6 min read

This blog post addresses some of the common areas of confusion and concern, and touches on a few best practices for maximizing the value of using Cisco Nexus 9000 switches for Data Center fabric deployments by leveraging the available Intelligent Buffering capabilities.

February 14, 2014

NETWORKING

Data Center Replication: WAN Optimization vs. Bandwidth Upgrade

3 min read

During the past years WAN optimization devices were used to optimize end-user traffic mainly. Employers connecting to remote applications can achieve better user experience if a couple of WAN optimization are deployed. Typically web applications, file sharing and email can be well accelerated: end users can increase their productivity with a little investment. On the […]

Ain’t your father’s TCP

TCP?  Who cares about TCP in HPC? More and more people, actually.  With the commoditization of HPC, lots of newbie HPC users are intimidated by special, one-off, traditional HPC types of networks and opt for the simplicity and universality of Ethernet. And it turns out that TCP doesn’t suck nearly as much as most (HPC) […]