Terms

Question 1

RFP

Answer 1

Request For Proposal

Question 2

RFI

Answer 2

Request For Information

Question 3

SOW

Answer 3

Scope Of Work

Question 4

BOM

Answer 4

Bill Of Materials

Question 5

SASE

Answer 5

Secure Access Service Edge

Question 6

VxLAN

Answer 6

Virtual extensible Local Area Network (a software defined network)
Instead of L2 tag > overlay on L3 - encapulates the MAC in UDP (encapulates L2 frames into L3 packets)

4,000 vlans > 16 million vxlans

Question 6

Leaf & Spine Topology

Answer 6

For Data Center Scaleability
Minimize hops between any 2 devices
All leafs connect to all spines (Instead of up-down hub and spoke models)
Cisco Nexus type topology

Question 7

Dark Fiber

Answer 7

“Unused” connections between sites
Companies lease the “glass” and can use them however they want. They provide and control what and how the fiber gets “lit up”

Question 8

SLB

Answer 8

Server Load Balancing
- Load Balancer -
Distribute loads across different servers to balance compute and network resources

Question 9

Spine-Leaf Protocol - ECPM routing

Answer 9

Equal-Cost Multipath
Replaces Spanning Tree Protocol - Allows all paths to be used for traffic load balancing and providing the quickest available route to be used

Question 10

WWT: IS

Answer 10

Infrastructure Services

Question 11

WWT: CS

Answer 11

Consulting Services

Question 12

WWT: Staffing Services

Answer 12

Staff Aug type services