Cloud Networking Overview Quiz

Cloud Networking Overview

• Cloud networking is a type of IT infrastructure where some or all of an organization's network capabilities and resources are hosted in a public or private cloud platform.

Characteristics of Cloud Networking

• Cloud networking offers connectivity to and between applications and workloads across clouds, cloud services, edge networks.
• Companies can use on-premises cloud networking resources to build a private cloud network or use cloud-based networking resources in the public cloud, or a hybrid cloud combination of both.
• Cloud networking is a Wide Area Network (WAN) that hosts users and resources and allows the two to communicate via cloud-based technologies.

Importance of Cloud Networking

• Communication is vital to performance, security, and efficient management of hybrid cloud and multicloud environments.
• Cloud networking is becoming the new enterprise core.
• Designing, deploying, and maintaining a cloud network for performance, security, and efficiency is vital to companies using public cloud services.

Evolution of Cloud Networks

• Current cloud networks have evolved to carry voice, video streams, text, and graphics between many different types of devices using the cloud.

Communication Elements

• To communicate, we establish rules or agreements to govern the conversation, including an identified sender and receiver, an agreed-upon method of communicating, and a common language and grammar.

Digital Communication Elements

• Devices or nodes serve as the sender and receiver.
• The method of communicating includes the media or medium, channel, and common language and grammar (rules or protocols).
• Messages or data are sent across a network by converting them into binary digits or bits, encoding them into a signal, and transmitting them over the appropriate medium.

Elements of a Cloud Network

• Devices are used to communicate with one another.
• The medium is how the devices are connected together.
• Messages are the information that travels over the cloud medium.
• Rules are how messages flow across the cloud network, governed by pre-defined protocols.
• Cloud Environment Rules (Protocols) define the format and order of messages exchanged between communicating entities, as well as the actions taken on transmission or receipt of a message or event.

Network Hardware and Software

• Network edge includes hosts (clients and servers) and servers often in data centers.
• Network core includes interconnected routers, switches (Openflow, P4, etc.), and SDN Controllers.
• Network software includes protocol layers, service primitives, and the relationship of services to protocols.

Test your knowledge on cloud networking with this quiz covering topics such as IT infrastructure, public and private cloud platforms, Wide Area Network (WAN), and cloud-based technologies.