A LAN is a privately operated computer network that connects devices within a limited area such as a home, office or campus…
Latency in network monitoring is the time a packet or request needs to travel between two points, measured in milliseconds as one-way…
Layer 2 is the data link layer of the OSI model, where Ethernet frames move between devices on the same network segment…
Layer 3 is the network layer of the OSI model, where IP addressing and routing happen and where layer 3 switches forward…
Layer 4 load balancing distributes TCP and UDP connections across servers using addresses and ports, without inspecting the application data inside them.
Layer 7 load balancing distributes traffic by reading application data such as URLs, headers and cookies, routing each request to the right…
Link aggregation bundles several parallel Ethernet links into one logical link, adding capacity and redundancy between switches, servers and storage.
A load balancer distributes incoming network connections or requests across a pool of servers to improve availability, capacity and response times.