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MYTHOS-NET
Network Engineering standards
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MYTHOS-NET-0001 MYTHOS-NET-0002 Network Engineering and Multi-Vendor Automation Standard
Defines automation contracts, data models, idempotency, validation, rollback, evidence, and vendor abstraction.
MYTHOS-NET-0003 Network Digital Twin and Simulation Verification Standard
Defines topology models, simulations, reachability, differential testing, evidence, and confidence.
MYTHOS-NET-0004 Network Security Architecture and Zero-Trust Networking Standard
Defines identity-aware networking, segmentation, enforcement, telemetry, and continuous validation.
MYTHOS-NET-0005 Network Source of Truth and Drift Reconciliation Standard
Defines authoritative state, discovery, intent, reconciliation, exceptions, and audit.
MYTHOS-NET-0006 Segment Routing and Next-Generation Transport Standard
Defines SR-MPLS, SRv6, policy, traffic engineering, operations, migration, and security.
MYTHOS-NET-0007 5G, 6G, RAN Automation, and Network Slicing Standard
Defines mobile architecture, orchestration, slicing, isolation, QoS, telemetry, and research boundaries.
MYTHOS-NET-0008 OSI Troubleshooting and Core Infrastructure Standard
Defines structured troubleshooting, telemetry, packet analysis, isolation, validation, and closure evidence.
MYTHOS-NET-0009 Physical Layer, Cabling, Optics, and Data-Center Topology Standard
Defines cabling, optics, facilities interfaces, topology, labeling, testing, and lifecycle.
MYTHOS-NET-0010 Routing, DNS, DHCP, and IPAM Standard
Defines routing architecture, naming, addressing, DDI, policy, operations, and assurance.
MYTHOS-NET-0011 Access, NAC, Wireless, and RF Engineering Standard
Defines access switching, 802.1X, profiling, wireless design, RF, roaming, and validation.
Companions
Guides and portfolios for this series
Field guides, living guides, and portfolio editions that decompose or consolidate the MYTHOS-NET standards.
MYTHOS-FG-NET-0001 Packet Flow, Encapsulation, and OSI Troubleshooting
A practical packet-centered guide that teaches engineers to trace communication from application intent through transport, IP, link, physical transmission, middleboxes, return paths, and evidence-driven troubleshooting.
MYTHOS-FG-NET-0002 Ethernet Switching, VLANs, STP, MLAG, and Layer-2 Resilience
A comprehensive Layer-2 engineering guide covering Ethernet forwarding, VLAN segmentation, spanning tree, link aggregation, multichassis designs, loop prevention, failure behavior, security, observability, and migration toward EVPN fabrics.
MYTHOS-FG-NET-0003 IPv4, IPv6, Addressing, Subnetting, and Neighbor Discovery
An addressing and host-forwarding guide that develops IPv4 and IPv6 fluency from binary prefix math through allocation, subnetting, ARP, Neighbor Discovery, SLAAC, DHCPv6, dual stack, transition, security, and operations.
MYTHOS-FG-NET-0004 OSPF Architecture, Design, Operations, and Troubleshooting
A complete OSPF engineering guide covering link-state theory, packets, neighbors, LSAs, areas, SPF, summarization, convergence, authentication, BFD, redistribution, operations, and packet-level troubleshooting for OSPFv2 and OSPFv3.
MYTHOS-FG-NET-0005 BGP Architecture, Policy, Scale, Security, and Troubleshooting
A policy-centered BGP guide covering path-vector operation, sessions, attributes, selection, route policy, communities, route reflection, multiprotocol families, convergence, RPKI, filtering, telemetry, scale, and incident troubleshooting.
MYTHOS-FG-NET-0006 MPLS, L3VPN, Traffic Engineering, and Service Provider Foundations
A service-provider and enterprise MPLS guide covering labels, forwarding equivalence classes, LDP, BGP labeled services, L3VPNs, route distinguishers and targets, RSVP-TE, entropy, OAM, QoS, resilience, and migration.
MYTHOS-FG-NET-0007 Segment Routing, SR-MPLS, and SRv6 Engineering
A modern transport guide covering segment-routing architecture, SRGB and SIDs, SR-MPLS, SRv6, network programming, SR Policies, steering, PCE and BGP control, TI-LFA, security, telemetry, interworking, and migration.
MYTHOS-FG-NET-0008 Quality of Service, Classification, Queuing, and Capacity Engineering
An end-to-end QoS and capacity guide covering application requirements, classification, marking, trust, policing, shaping, queuing, scheduling, congestion avoidance, ECN, wireless and WAN behavior, telemetry, testing, and capacity planning.
MYTHOS-FG-NET-0009 Multicast Engineering with IGMP, PIM, and Anycast RP
A multicast engineering guide covering addressing, receiver signaling, IGMPv3, MLD, PIM-SM, shared and shortest-path trees, rendezvous points, Anycast RP, source-specific multicast, Layer-2 snooping, security, operations, and troubleshooting.
MYTHOS-FG-NET-0010 DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management Engineering
A DDI engineering guide covering authoritative and recursive DNS, resolution, zones, DNSSEC, encrypted DNS, DHCPv4, DHCPv6, relay, high availability, IPAM, source-of-truth integration, automation, security, observability, and recovery.
MYTHOS-FG-NET-0011 Enterprise Campus and Branch Network Engineering
A complete campus and branch engineering guide spanning requirements, hierarchical and fabric designs, wired and wireless access, routing, identity, WAN edge, resiliency, operations, automation, lifecycle, and transition toward intent-driven architectures.
MYTHOS-FG-NET-0012 Data-Center Networking, EVPN/VXLAN, and Fabric Architecture
An implementation-grade data-center networking guide covering leaf-spine fabrics, underlays, BGP EVPN, VXLAN, distributed gateways, multitenancy, multihoming, routing, DCI, automation, telemetry, security, capacity, and failure assurance.
MYTHOS-FG-NET-0013 Enterprise Wireless and RF Engineering
A comprehensive WLAN and RF guide spanning electromagnetic foundations, 802.11 MAC and PHY behavior, Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7, design, surveys, roaming, authentication, capacity, troubleshooting, automation, sensing, and lifecycle.
MYTHOS-FG-NET-0014 802.1X, RADIUS, NAC, and Device Profiling
A full identity-aware access guide covering 802.1X, EAP, RADIUS, certificates, wired and wireless enforcement, profiling, posture, guest and IoT onboarding, dynamic policy, high availability, troubleshooting, telemetry, and zero-trust evolution.
MYTHOS-FG-NET-0015 WAN, SD-WAN, SASE, and Private Networking
A complete WAN and secure-access guide covering transport, overlays, SD-WAN architecture, path selection, application policy, routing, internet and cloud connectivity, SASE and SSE integration, zero trust, remote access, observability, resilience, and migration.
MYTHOS-FG-NET-0016 Network Automation with Python, Go, Rust, and Ansible
An extensive automation engineering guide covering requirements, data models, APIs, NETCONF, RESTCONF, gNMI, Python, Go, Rust, Ansible, idempotency, concurrency, testing, transactions, rollout, rollback, observability, security, and agent-assisted workflows.
MYTHOS-FG-NET-0017 Network Source of Truth, Intent, and Drift Reconciliation
A governance and implementation guide for network source of truth, normalized intent, inventory, topology, addressing, services, lifecycle, discovery, reconciliation, drift, approvals, APIs, and evidence-driven automation.
MYTHOS-FG-NET-0018 Network Digital Twins, Simulation, and Pre-Change Verification
A rigorous network-verification guide covering twin scope, models, configuration analysis, reachability, policy, simulation, emulation, traffic generation, differential testing, failure injection, confidence, CI integration, and decision evidence.
MYTHOS-FG-NET-0019 Streaming Telemetry, gNMI, OpenTelemetry, and Network Observability
A complete network observability guide covering telemetry architecture, YANG-Push, gNMI, OpenConfig, metrics, logs, events, traces, OpenTelemetry, collectors, schemas, time, cardinality, storage, SLOs, anomaly detection, security, and troubleshooting.
MYTHOS-FG-NET-0020 Packet Capture, Wireshark, tcpdump, and Protocol Forensics
A deep packet-evidence guide covering capture planning, observation points, tcpdump and capture filters, Wireshark display analysis, TCP, UDP, DNS, TLS, routing, wireless, tunnels, performance, security, forensics, evidence integrity, automation, and encrypted-network limitations.
MYTHOS-FG-NET-0021 Optical Networking, DWDM, Coherent Transport, and Photonic Evolution
A practical-to-frontier optical networking guide covering fiber propagation, optical budgets, transceivers, CWDM and DWDM, ROADMs, amplification, coherent modulation, DSP, OTN, 400ZR and 800ZR, telemetry, failure isolation, planning, automation, and photonic evolution.
MYTHOS-FG-NET-0022 5G-Advanced, 6G, RAN, Core, Slicing, and Transport
A present-to-frontier mobile-network guide covering NR and NG-RAN, standalone core, service-based architecture, user and control planes, QoS, slicing, edge, private 5G, O-RAN, observability, 5G-Advanced Release 18 and 19, Release 20 studies, IMT-2030, NTN, integrated sensing, and AI-native operations.
MYTHOS-GUIDE-NET-0001 Network Engineering: Foundations, Architecture, Automation, and Future Networks
Integrated engineering guide connecting the relevant Mythos standards, implementation patterns, operating procedures, architecture decisions, evidence expectations, and maturity path for enterprise network engineering architecture and operations.
MYTHOS-NET-PORT-0001 Network Engineering Standards Portfolio
Portfolio Edition in the Standards Portfolios collection of the MYTHOS Engineering Standards Library.
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