BIOS
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BIOS is firmware used to perform hardware initialization during the booting
process, and to provide runtime services for operating systems and programs. The
BIOS firmware comes pre-installed on a personal computer's system board, and it is
the first software to run when powered on.
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Cisco IMC
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The Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) is the management service for the
C-Series servers. CIMC runs within the server. You can use a web-based GUI or
SSH-based CLI to access, configure, administer, and monitor the server.
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DPDK
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The Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) is a set of data plane libraries and network
interface controller drivers for fast packet processing.
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DTLS
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Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) is a communications protocol that provides
security for datagram-based applications by allowing them to communicate in a way
that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, or message forgery.
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IPSec
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Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) is a secure network protocol suite that
authenticates and encrypts the packets of data to provide secure encrypted
communication between two computers over an Internet Protocol network
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LACP
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Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) is a protocol for the collective handling
of multiple physical ports that can be seen as a single channel for network traffic
purposes.
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LLDP
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Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) is a vendor independent link layer protocol
used by network devices for advertising their identity, capabilities to neighbors on
a LAN segment.
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MIB
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Management Information Base (MIB) is a database of the objects that can be managed
on a device. The managed objects, or variables, can be set or read to provide
information on the network devices and interfaces.
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NETCONF
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A Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) is a protocol defined by the IETF to
install, edit, and delete the configuration of network devices.
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NGIO
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Next Generation Input/Output (NGIO)
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PnP
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Plug and Play (PnP) increases speed and reduces complexity of device
deployments.
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Port Channels
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Port channels combine individual links into a group to create a single logical link
that provides the aggregate bandwidth of up to eight physical links.
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RADIUS
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Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) is a networking protocol,
operating on port 1812 that provides centralized Authentication, Authorization, and
Accounting management for users who connect and use a network service.
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REST API
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Representational state transfer (REST) suggests to create an object of the data
requested by the client and send the values of the object in response to the
user.
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Service Chaining
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Service chaining allows data traffic to be rerouted through one or more services,
such as firewall, load balancer, and intrusion detection and prevention (IDP)
devices.
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SNMP
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Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a framework used for managing devices
on the internet. It provides a set of operations for monitoring and managing the
internet.
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SPAN
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Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) feature, which is sometimes called port mirroring or
port monitoring, selects network traffic for analysis by a network analyzer.
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Spanning Tree
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Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) is a Layer 2 protocol that runs on bridges and
switches. The main purpose of STP is to ensure that you do not create loops when you
have redundant paths in your network.
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SR-IOV
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Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) allows multipleVMs running a variety of
guest operating systems to share a single PCIe network adapter within a host server.
SR-IOV allows a VM to move data directly to and from the network adapter, bypassing
the hypervisor for increased network throughput and lower server CPU burden.
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TACACS
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Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System (TACACS) refers to a family of
related protocols handling remote authentication and related services for networked
access control through a centralized server.
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UEFI
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The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is a specification that defines a
software interface between an operating system and platform firmware.
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virtio
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Virtual input/output (virtio) is a virtualization standard for network and disk
device drivers where just the guest's device driver "knows" it is running in a
virtual environment, and cooperates with the hypervisor.
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VM
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A virtual machine (VM) is an emulation of a computer system. Virtual machines are
based on computer architectures and provide functionality of a physical computer.
Their implementations may involve specialized hardware, software, or a
combination.
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VNF
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Virtual Network Functions (VNFs), the software version of network appliances such
as a router, firewall, load-balancer etc
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