Network Automation Terms Glossary
Network Automation Terminology#
Terms that are good to know in a network automation context
hypervisor kernel MAC Learning underlay network - underlying physical network that you cable up overlay network - built using network virtualisation that dynamically creates tunnels between virtual switches within a datacentre TOR Switches 802.1Q trunking SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol - these tools poll certain MIB’s (Management Information Bases) IOS device
Traditional Protocols#
BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) - establishing neighbour adjecencies iwth other BGP routeres LLDP OSPF - routing protocol used to communicate with other routers Spanning Tree RIP - routing protocol used to communicate with other routers
WAN#
Frame Relay MPLS
brownouts
VRF - Virtual Routing and Forwarding
three-tier application
BGP table OSPF adjacencies active neighbors
application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs)
VLAN provisioning configure top-of-rack switches
Qos
Multiplexing
Frame Relay ATM
ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol)
VLAN SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol
default gateway - Your router, network path to the rest of the world.
VPC - Virtual PortChannel? Cisco MLAG - Multi-Chassis Link Aggregation Arista
Home Phone Network#
- PSTN (Public switched telephone network)
- SS7 (Signaling system 7)
CSMA/CD - Carrier sense multiple access with collision detection
NIC - Network Interface Card
MTU - Maximum Transmission Unit
PAM5 (Five-level pulse amplitude modulation)
Tos (Type of Service) -
loopback - used for identifying and testing localhost
ARP maps MAC addresses to IP Addresses
Network Automation: Software defined Architecture#
- OpenDaylight - A controller infrastructure built for SDN deployments
- OpenContrail - An open-source network virtualization platform for the cloud