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What we add

Topic graph

A wire service tags a release with a category, once. It doesn't maintain a durable graph over time. We connect them to a topic graph an agent can query.

Data Center https://decisioninsights.ai/term/data-center/ Networking https://decisioninsights.ai/term/networking/ Network Operator https://decisioninsights.ai/term/network-operator/ and 8 more

Counted facts

A protocol or open source project keeps no vendor list and publishes no figures of its own to check this against. This counts how it actually shows up across the graph -- articles that name it, the organizations named alongside it in those articles, similar projects, and organizations whose topic tags overlap with its own -- computed, not curated.

Related projects eBPF, Bpfman, BFE, bpftrace, LoxiLB, MetalLB, L3AF, libbpf Related organizations DigitalOcean, Forward Networks, Cedexis, DENT, Gigamon, Buoyant, HAProxy Technologies, Kemp Technologies