Advanced Networking

What is Advanced Networking?

Advanced networking is considered a high throughput computing for international particle physics collaborations whose requirement is to transfer a large amount of data around the world quickly. Fermilab has long been engaged in supporting the mission of network Research and Development. And nowadays, approximate 100-gigabit connectivity is boosted for local, national, and international wide area networks.

Advanced networking requires more configuration steps in comparison to basic networking. And it is used for a network that has more sophisticated topologies.

Advanced Networking Tools

WireShark

Wireshark is a network or network protocol analyzer that is used for monitoring the network traffic and captures packets from the network connection, such as from your personal computer to your office or home. Wireshark is considered today's most widely used networking tool. It is also used for examining network security problems. Wireshark keeps track of all the packets so that each packet can be easily filtered out for meeting specific requirements. Wireshark is also used in analyzing the packets that are dropped.

WireCAP

Many applications and network security tools are dependent on packet capturing for data packet analysis. In the high-speed network, the use of conventional software-based packet capture engines may be inclined towards packet drop. And any type of packet drop will lead to a decrement in the integrity and accuracy of these tools. So there is a requirement for a technology that provides lossless packet capture technology, that can be used in a high-speed network, and that is cheap.

WireCAP was developed by Fermilab. WireCAP is developed for commodity NICs ( Network Interface Cards) in high-speed networks. It is considered a novel packet capture engine. It exploits multi-core architecture and multi-queue NICs to provide an efficient and effective solution for the high-speed network packet drop problem.

Multicore-Aware Data Transfer Middleware (MDTM)

Multicore-Aware Data Transfer Middleware, abbreviated as MDTM, is a project that is developed to accelerate the movement of data in the multicore system. When it runs on a multicore system, it improves the efficiencies that were in the existing tools of the data movement. It achieves this by harnessing multicore parallelism for scaling the movement of the data on the end devices. At the Brookhaven National Laboratory and Fermilab, the MDTM project is carried out. DOE’s Office of Science Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Program provides funding and sponsoring for the MDTM project.

BigData Express

On the BigData Express project, FermiLab is collaborating with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. DOE’s Office of Science Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Network Research Program provides funding for this project. The main aim of the BigData Express project is to provide high-performance, predictable, and schedulable data transfer service for the DOE large-scale science computing facilities (NERSC, LCF, US-LHC computing facilities, etc.) and collaborators.

SDN (Software Defined Network) for End-to-end Networked Science at the Exascale (SENSE)

SDN for End-to-end Networked Science at the Exascale is abbreviated as SENSE, and the main focus of this project is to establish an interdomain Software-Defined Networking (SDN) framework. The SENSE system involves a model-based architecture, implementation, and deployment that allows the automated end-to-end instantiation of network service across administrative domains. DOE’s Office of Science ASCR Program provides funding for the SENSE Project. For this project, Fermilab works by collaborating with Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Caltech, Argonne National Lab, UMD/MAX, NERSC, and ESnet.

Datadog Network Performance Monitoring

Datadog is based on the cloud-based, and it is service monitoring and management for the network it includes autodiscovery, performance alerts, topology mapping, and troubleshooting tools. Autodiscovery is considered a group of software tools that enables detecting and collecting data on changes in network and network assets such as changes to memory, data (files), and software upgrades or versions

SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager

SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager(NCM) is considered an essential administration and system security tool, and it will check the device settings automatically. The working of NCM begins with collecting all device configurations and then establishing a standard setting. It also ensures that if any unauthorized changes are made, they will be rolled back immediately.

N-able N-sight

N-able N–sight is a remote monitoring and management tool that allows the central IT department to manage networks on several remote sites. N-able N-sight provides us with a set of tools so that we can efficiently and easily maintain, secure, and improve IT in one dashboard.

Paessler Network Troubleshooting with PRTG

It is an infrastructure management system that involves network monitoring. PRTG is considered a network monitoring tool that ensures that your computer is running properly and smoothly.

Network monitoring is essential for increasing network efficiency by knowing the resource consumption and bandwidth of your network.