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"Should the internet traffic exit the network at a central DC or directly at the branch?"; is a well known debate among engineers ...
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When SD-WAN first emerged and became the industry trend, many network engineers quickly declared: “MPLS is dead.” “SD-WAN fixes everything....
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Failures are inevitable in any network but outages are not; the difference between the two can be explained by the concept of “Failure Domai...
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Most network projects start with a diagram, but a diagram by itself does not represent an architecture. Most of the time, when an engineer ...
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When planning redundancy, especially in firewall deployments, you typically have two options: Active-Standby or Active-Active. Selecting the...
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Many engineers interpret "no single point of failure" as adding a secondary firewall or adding a secondary ISP or stack the switch...
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Redundancy does not automatically equal to resiliency. They are related but they are not the same. Redundancy can be achieved by adding back...
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There are some outages caused due to failures. There are a lot of outages caused due to maintenance. Upgrades, Applying Patches, Configurat...
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In a real world network, amateur engineers often expect designs to be complex. Many assume that if a network is difficult for an average-ski...
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