Networking

Introduction: Why We Need More Than a Traditional NIC?In the past, a Network Interface Card (NIC) had one simple job: move packets in and out of a computer. As networks scaled to gigabit and then multi-gigabit speeds, NICs added basic offload features like checksum calculation. But today’s data centers, cloud platfo...

Intro: Why NICs Still Matter?Every device that connects to a network—whether a laptop, a server, or a GPU node in an AI cluster needs a way to speak the network’s “language.” The Network Interface Card (NIC) is that translator.At first glance, a NIC may look like just a port on the back of your machine. But modern N...