Definitions

Availability: Percentage of time a connection is usable.

Border gateway protocol (BGP): Standardized routing protocol that enables autonomous networks to exchange routing information and determine optimal paths for data to travel across the internet.

Bidirectional forwarding detection (BFD): A detection protocol that provides fast forwarding path failure detection times. These fast failure detection times facilitate faster routing reconvergence times.

Customer gateway: On-premises resource needs to establish hybrid network connectivity to cloud.

Equal cost multi path (ECMP): Network routing method that distributes traffic across multiple network paths of the same cost to a single destination.

IPSec: Protocol suite that secures IP communications by authenticating and encrypting each IP packet in a data stream, creating secure tunnels between networks.

Link aggregation group (LAG): Method for combining multiple network links into a single logical link to increase bandwidth and reliability.

Media access control security (MACsec): IEEE standard that provides Layer 2 point-to-point encryption, ensuring data confidentiality, data integrity, and data origin authenticity between network equipment

Quality of service (QoS): Techniques and mechanisms used to prioritize network traffic, manage bandwidth allocation, and ensure consistent performance for critical applications and services.

Resiliency: Ability to recover from disruptions.

Transport layer security (TLS): Security protocol that encrypts communication between a client and a server to protect data from being intercepted or altered.

Virtual private network (VPN): Establishes a secure and encrypted connection between a network or device.