Paessler pulls subscription licensing switcheroo on PRTG Network Monitor Exclusive Customers seek alternatives after claiming costs up from perpetual Networks05 Jul 2024 | 26
Cloudflare debuts one-click nuke of web-scraping AI Take that for ignoring robots.txt! Off-Prem03 Jul 2024 | 49
Nokia to buy Infinera for $2.3B Aims to expand optical networking biz, particularly in North America Networks28 Jun 2024 | 2
Alibaba Cloud reveals its datacenter design, homebrew network used for LLM training Exclusive 15,000 GPUs per DC, in hosts packing eight apiece, plus nine NICs – helped by switches with custom heat sinks Systems27 Jun 2024 | 6
AI-assisted automation for clouds and networks climbs Gartner's hype cycles Yes, AI will volunteer to run your IT estate. You might be a fool to trust it AI + ML20 Jun 2024 | 2
Um, what ever did happen with network automation? Systems Approach Is it lingering somewhere between fusion power and self-driving cars? Networks17 Jun 2024 | 10
FCC takes some action against notorious BGP How's your RPKI-based security plan coming along? Feds want to know Networks07 Jun 2024 | 9
Wi-Fi can watch your heart beating, Taiwan’s datacenter power outfit Delta finds Computex May come in handy for healthcare orgs, or to turn you off private 5G Networks06 Jun 2024 | 10
Nvidia CEO brushes off Big Tech's attacks on NVLink network tech Computex Says UALink and Ultra Ethernet won't be threat for years as he reveals successor to Blackwell and free NIMs Networks04 Jun 2024 | 1
Court accepts Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim's insider trading settlement Billionaire Arista chief architect to pay inconsequential sum via SEC Networks03 Jun 2024 | 7
UK may not hit goal of 95% mobile coverage, commons committee warns Sitting in a not-spot in the countryside? It's not great news Networks03 Jun 2024 | 68
Alibaba Cloud built its edge network hardware on Intel Ethernet ASICs Custom 2U boxen with Tofino inside are in production and mean Chinese cloud has more space for servers Off-Prem28 May 2024 |
TR-069, a protocol that made broadband manageable, turns 20. What's coming next? Interview In less than 13 minutes, we'll get you up to speed on USP Networks23 May 2024 | 10
John Deere now considers VMs to be legacy tech, Ethernet and Wi-Fi on the brink Next Plans robo-tractors to help as folks flee the farm but the planet stays hungry Virtualization22 May 2024 | 30
Starlink offers 'unusually hostile environment' to TCP Hopping satellites every 15 seconds will do that to a protocol, natch Networks22 May 2024 | 98
Big Tech is not much help when fighting a junta, and FOSS doesn't ride to the rescue Opponents of Myanmar’s internet-nobbling military government don't like when Facebook asks for their real names Security21 May 2024 | 25
Google Cloud shows it can break things for lots of customers – not just one at a time Deleted about 40 networks that services needed, causing late Thursday fun Off-Prem20 May 2024 | 29
Undersea cables must have high-priority protection before they become top targets Interview It's 'essential to national security' ex-Navy intel officer tells us Networks08 May 2024 | 36
Patch up – 4 critical bugs in ArubaOS lead to remote code execution Ten vulnerabilities in total for admins to apply Patches02 May 2024 | 4
Lights about to go out on US Affordable Connectivity Program A partial benefit in May then subsidy gets unplugged once and for all Networks02 May 2024 | 17
Satellite of love: SES and Intelsat finally tie the knot in $3.1B acquisition Second time lucky as competition from Starlink and pals increases Networks30 Apr 2024 | 1
Cisco creates architecture to improve security and sell you new switches Hypershield detects bad behavior and automagically reconfigures networks to snuff out threats Security18 Apr 2024 | 10
Alibaba Cloud reveals network telemetry tool that helped cut number of engineers needed by 86% Exclusive Zoonet employs 'elegant generalization of ping and traceroute' among other tricks Off-Prem16 Apr 2024 | 4
Zero-day exploited right now in Palo Alto Networks' GlobalProtect gateways Out of the PAN-OS and into the firewall, a Python backdoor this way comes Cyber-crime12 Apr 2024 | 13
Starlink clashes with Telecom Italia over frequency data sharing Refusal to play ball may result in satellite operator moving investment elsewhere Networks02 Apr 2024 | 18
HPE bakes LLMs into Aruba as AI inches closer to network takeover +Comment But don't worry, the models are here to help summarize technical docs and answer your questions ... for now Networks28 Mar 2024 | 3
Vernor Vinge, first author to describe cyberspace and 'The Singularity,' dies at 79 Obituary CompSci and math professor by trade, he envisaged a galactic Usenet, and was utterly brilliant Offbeat22 Mar 2024 | 72
Japan's NTT and NEC reckon they can boost optical network capacities 12x First tests of manycore fibres hailed as success over oceanic distances Off-Prem22 Mar 2024 | 4
Virgin Media sets up 'smart poles' next to cabinets to boost mobile network capacity Not the best looking street furniture in town Networks19 Mar 2024 | 121
FCC ups broadband benchmark speeds, says rural areas still underserved Previous goals were 25Mbps download and a paltry 3Mbps for upload ... and some places don't even have that Networks15 Mar 2024 | 50
We talk to W3C board vice-chair Robin Berjon about the InterPlanetary File System Interview The decentralized web is alive and well despite Web3 financial scheming Networks15 Mar 2024 | 8
Attacks on UK fiber networks mount: Operators beg govt to step in Some simply chop cables in ducts, others pour in petrol and set 'the whole lot alight' Networks12 Mar 2024 | 161
Broadcom says VMware to grow revenue by double-digit percentages all year Networking silicon surges, Carbon Black to be kept in the fold Virtualization08 Mar 2024 | 12
Boffins propose fiber-optic network for the Moon To detect seismic waves, silly Science06 Mar 2024 | 24
FCC: April is last month for Affordable Connectivity Program payments US broadband customers prepare for the great disconnection Networks05 Mar 2024 | 8
Synopsys unleashes Ethernet on steroids with 1.6T blueprint to turbocharge AI training Design aims to sate the bandwidth hunger of next-gen networks Networks04 Mar 2024 |
Security is hard because it has to be right all the time? Yeah, like everything else Systems Approach It takes only one bottleneck or single point of failure to ruin your week CSO25 Feb 2024 | 28
Juniper sued over HPE buyout after allegedly ginning up execs' wallets Material information withheld from shareholders, it's claimed Networks23 Feb 2024 | 11
Virgin Media to stand up rival network operator to BT Openreach NetCo hoping to eat some of the pie by opening network plumbing to ISPs Networks19 Feb 2024 | 31
Cisco wields axe again as results season swings around In an industry addicted to job cuts, 34,000 staff roles vanished in first six weeks of 2024 Networks12 Feb 2024 | 2
Curious tale of broken VPNs, the Year 2038, and certs that expired 100 years ago Interview It’s not NTP. There’s no way it’s NTP. It was NTP On-Prem09 Feb 2024 | 32
5G network slicing finally shown to be more than pipe dream Telcos demonstrate configuration in action at research facility. Now to find customers that want to buy one Networks08 Feb 2024 | 14
Cisco, Nvidia expand collab to push Ethernet into AI clusters InfiniBand dominates in GPU-boosted servers while Big E gains steam Networks08 Feb 2024 |
Netgear hauls Huawei to court over Wi-Fi patent spat Router maker claims Chinese giant refuses to license on reasonable terms Networks01 Feb 2024 | 16
Zen Internet warns customers of an impending IP address change Updated As if by magic, multiple IPv4s may be reduced to just one Networks31 Jan 2024 | 114
Snow day in corporate world thanks to another frustrating Microsoft Teams outage Network rollback fails to resolve issue in Americas as Redmond scrambles to optimize its way out of the problem SaaS27 Jan 2024 | 35
Does AI give InfiniBand a moment to shine? Or will Ethernet hold the line? You could go all-in on Nvidia for the lower latency. Or tough it out with less exotic kit and tolerate slower training Systems24 Jan 2024 | 6
Equinix bids for more of your multi-cloud network with homebrew hosted router VMs are slow. And who can arrange remote hands wherever your traffic needs to flow? Off-Prem19 Jan 2024 | 2
CDW settles in lawsuit with rival reseller over Cisco sales Updated Meanwhile pending case from Cisco accuses Dexon of selling counterfeit kit Networks15 Jan 2024 | 1
Why Google is waiving egress fees for disgruntled customers ditching GCP Analysis Hint: US, UK, European antitrust police are on the hunt PaaS + IaaS11 Jan 2024 | 16
Motorola loses appeal to kill price cap on UK Airwave emergency services contract Tribunal nixes appeal from provider of network that cops and firefighters can't seem to migrate from... Personal Tech09 Jan 2024 | 16
Wireless priesthood begins blessing Wi-Fi 7 hardware CES A little more speed and less latency Networks09 Jan 2024 | 14
Huawei bets its 2024 on datacenter infrastructure Compute, networking and storage are key, and global sales are still possible – despite, y'know, controversy On-Prem02 Jan 2024 | 1
NAT, ATM, decentralized search – and other outrageous opinions from the 1990s Systems Approach The predictions that turned out correct ... and the ones we wished were right Networks29 Dec 2023 | 58
Cisco goes Christmas shopping, buys Cilium project originator Isovalent Switchzilla likes what eBPF does for multicloud networking and security Networks22 Dec 2023 | 13
Microsoft puts the 'why?' in Wi-Fi with latest Windows patch Redmond stuffs IT admin Christmas stockings with network issues OSes18 Dec 2023 | 37
SpaceX cleared to test satellite phone service via Starlink Low Earth orbit cell ops will help remote region get services Networks15 Dec 2023 | 6
Unite the union claims Vodafone and Three merger is about 'corporate greed' Flags up potential job cuts, price hikes, and national security issues Networks14 Dec 2023 | 26
Ofcom proposes ban on UK telcos making 'inflation-linked' price hikes mid-contract And it's not just inflation... it's inflation plus an additional percentage, it turns out Networks12 Dec 2023 | 118
How hard is your network really, comms watchdog asks telcos Ofcom opens consultation on resilience requirements... power backup for mobile networks, anyone? Networks11 Dec 2023 | 14
UK mulls next-gen satellite subsidies for Brit companies Almost £100M in handouts available for LEO connectivity projects Networks11 Dec 2023 | 16
What's the golden age of online services? Well, now doesn't suck Yearning for the pre-web internet can be misplaced... it certainly wasn't user-friendly Networks08 Dec 2023 | 86