The following table provides definitions for some terms that are used in this guide.
Terminology | Definition |
AI | Artificial Intelligence |
Backend fabric | Dedicated GPU fabric interconnect with dedicated non-blocking switching performance, usually defined by pure rail and rail optimized fabric topologies. |
BGP | Border Gateway Protocol routing protocol |
BGP EVPN VXLAN | Border Gateway Protocol Ethernet Virtual Private Network VXLAN |
EVPN | Ethernet VPN |
Frontend fabric | Converged network infrastructure for storage, multitenancy, and application workload deployment |
GPU | Graphis Processing Unit |
SFM | SmartFabric Manager for SONiC |
OOB management fabric | Network infrastructure using network device out-of-band management interface to create a fabric for external management access |
VXLAN | Virtual Extensible Local Area Network |