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What is the meaning of tradeoffs? Tradeoffs in network design refer to the balancing of various factors and decisions that impact the overall performance, cost, manageability, security, and scalability of...
High-frequency trading (HFT) is a type of algorithmic trading that uses complex algorithms to analyze market data and execute trades at high speeds. In order to achieve this, HFT firms...
BGP route reflectors, used as an alternate method to full-mesh IBGP, help in scaling. A BGP route reflector cluster is used to provide redundancy in a BGP RR design: the...
When it comes to fast convergence, first thing that we need to understand what is convergence? Convergence is the time between failure and the recovery. Link, circuits, routers, switches all...
Vlan, VTP and Trunking are most fundamentals yet important topics in Layer 2 Networking. I explain this topic from design, theory and hands-on perspective in my CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure Training....
BGP Optimal Route Reflection provides Optimal Routing for the Route Reflector Clients without sending all available paths. I recommend you to read this post if you don't know about BGP...
Route Redistribution Best Practices - You need route redistribution for many reasons. In this post,the drivers for the route redistribution but more importantly the best practices for applying route redistribution...
Network mergers and acquisitions are processes that can be seen in any type of business. As network designers, our job is to identify the business requirements of both existing networks...