Networks
Two Chinese companies leave US: China Telecom told it can't stay, DiDi gets out of Dodge
Just being practical here, but maybe they can share a cab?
03 Dec 12:26 | 5
Networks
On Call
How do you call support when the telephones go TITSUP*?
Fix the printer, fix the phones
03 Dec 08:31 | 113
Networks
Sweden asks EU to ban Bitcoin mining because while hydroelectric power is cheap, they need it for other stuff
Lighting and warming homes in winter, or ransoming encrypted files and buying drugs? Hmmm
26 Nov 19:32 | 157
Paid Feature
When digital transformation is the goal, network renovation isn’t good enough
Keeping secure with iomart in the second wave of SD-WAN
25 Nov 08:30 |
Systems Approach
SmartNICs, IPUs, DPUs de-hyped: Why and how cloud giants are offloading work from server CPUs
Where this technology grew from, and what it offers you
24 Nov 21:09 | 4
Networks
AWS claims 'monumental step forward' with optional IPv6-only networks
10 quintillion IP addresses per subnet but expect some pain
24 Nov 18:04 | 7
Analysis
European carriers push for more OpenRAN support... but it might not end in a win
'Many appear to placing huge bets on it as a replacement for Huawei'
24 Nov 11:44 | 3
Networks
Mature networking vendor seeks flexible commitment from software suitors
Cisco’s new software license agreement means one payment can cover code and services
24 Nov 05:57 | 3
Networks
Should be easy to win the rights to .tv when you're name-checked in the contract's tech reqs – right, Afilias?
Funny how this has happened again
23 Nov 23:40 | 25
Updated
Nominet names new CEO as new chair promises real reform
But won't be looking into pay deal
19 Nov 13:40 | 11
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
The ideal sat-nav is one that stops the car, winds down the window, and asks directions
It's not quite a Jag-you-arr
19 Nov 12:40 | 161
Networks
Riverbed Technologies files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection following pandemic 'headwinds'
Closure of factories, labour shortages, and continued slowdown in network optimisation sales at fault
18 Nov 19:17 | 20
Networks
UK Telecommunications Act – aka 'power to strip out Huawei' – makes it to the statute book
We bet the Chinese comms giant just LOVED that description
18 Nov 15:46 | 31
Analysis
A tiny island nation has put the rights to .tv up for grabs – but what’s this? Problematic contract clauses? Again?
Could this be Dot-co The Sequel?
18 Nov 09:30 | 69
Networks
Cisco thinks you're happy to wait ages for new kit, then pay premium prices
Supply chain pain will persist deep into 2022, so it's not like you have a choice if you're in Switchzilla's world
18 Nov 07:57 | 19
Networks
Brits complained a bit less about connectivity when they were allowed to go outside and see people in the flesh
Top of Ofcom's table for broadband whinges? It rhymes with BorkBork
17 Nov 09:30 | 12
Networks
Chap who campaigned to oust Nominet's CEO and chairman and reform the .UK registry is elected as non-exec director
Fellow reformer also chosen in critical board vote that shows at least some members still want change
17 Nov 07:31 | 25
Who, Me?
There's only one cure for passive-aggressive Space Invader bosses, and that's more passive aggression
For when a terse email just won't do
15 Nov 07:30 | 85
Networks
Boffins use nuclear radiation to send data wirelessly
Shall we call it Die-Fi? Or NoTooth? Either would be unkind, as this experiment used little radiation, but much exotic hardware
15 Nov 06:28 | 75
Paid Feature
ZTE’s Zero Carbon energy network empowers E2E ICT infrastructure for sustainable 5G development
Transformed infrastructure promotes intelligent solar energy and lithium battery, simplified power supply, modular DCs
14 Nov 21:00 |
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Analysis
NixOS and the changing face of Linux operating systems
As with packaging systems, lightweight efficient approaches look set to lose out
Personal Tech
You've seen the Raspberry Pi CM4 in a mini-ITX case. Now here's four in a mini-ITX case
How to coordinate 16 Arms
Interview
Why your external monitor looks awful on Arm-based Macs, the open source fix – and the guy who wrote it
Q&A with the developer of BetterDummy: from macOS secrets to his motivations
On Call
How do you call support when the telephones go TITSUP*?
Fix the printer, fix the phones
Security
BadgerDAO DeFi defunded as hackers apparently nab millions in crypto tokens
Badger, badger, badger, coin theft, coin theft!
OSes
Microsoft makes tweaks to Windows 11 Start Menu for Insiders but stops short of mimicking Windows 10
If it's not broke, don't f- ... never mind
Personal Tech
Texas' anti-moderation social network law blocked by judge
Enforcing rules on content is in everybody's interest, court decides
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
A smarter alternative to password recognition could be right in front of us: Unique, invisible, maybe even deadly
Take your breath awayyyyyyyy
Networks
Two Chinese companies leave US: China Telecom told it can't stay, DiDi gets out of Dodge
Just being practical here, but maybe they can share a cab?
On-Prem
US trade watchdog opposes Nvidia's Arm buy, mostly over fears about datacentre innovation
FTC sues to block deal because it would be bad for competition
STORIES
Networks
Workplace surveillance booming during pandemic, destroying trust in employers
At the same time, Brit MPs call for tighter regulations on AI snooping
12 Nov 16:04 | 32
Networks
Billion-dollar US broadband bonanza awaits Biden's blessing – what you need to know
Infrastructure bill brings $65bn to freshen up American internet
10 Nov 01:57 | 25
Networks
Netflix shows South Korea a rerun of 'We Won't Pay Your Telcos For Bandwidth'
Season Two looks like it'll be a courtroom drama
08 Nov 00:46 | 39
Networks
Amazon hasn't launched one internet satellite yet, but it's now planning a fleet of 7,774
Low Earth orbit is going to be chockablock with broadband-beaming birds
05 Nov 22:44 | 59
Networks
Starry starry night? No, it's just more low Earth orbit satellites as BT and OneWeb ink deal
Brit telco to test out broadband tech in UK labs before customer trials next year
05 Nov 10:26 | 31
Updated
Cisco warns 'unintentional debugging credential' left in some network switches can be abused to hijack equipment
Pair of 10/10 critical bugs demand your attention, as does a 9.8-rated SSH SNAFU
05 Nov 00:22 | 17
Networks
BT shelves efforts to find investor to share FTTP build, says Openreach can run project alone
Oh and that company-wide cost-cutting programme is 18 months ahead of schedule
04 Nov 14:30 | 26
Networks
Apple seeks geniuses to work on 6G cellular modem before it's even shipped own 5G chip
It's a good time to be a wireless communications architect or an AI engineer
04 Nov 08:04 | 35
Networks
Arista and Juniper hike prices as component lead times blow out to 80 weeks – that's May 2023
Cost of some supplies is up 200 per cent, so vendors start 'protecting margins'
04 Nov 06:29 | 7
Networks
New cable incoming! Hawaiki Nui set to connect Sydney, Singapore, and LA by 2025
Plans to hook up New Zealand's South Island and Indonesia too
03 Nov 18:01 | 5
Exclusive
Cisco requires COVID-19 shots for all US staff – even remote workers
Unvaxxed can vaxx off for unpaid leave during which Switchzilla can fire them or erase their jobs
03 Nov 02:23 | 268
Networks
Amazon aims to launch prototype broadband internet satellites by Q4 2022 – without Bezos' Blue Origin
Meanwhile, SpaceX already has 1,000+ orbiting Starlink birds
02 Nov 07:02 | 24
Networks
FCC officially opens its $1.9bn purse to reimburse those ripping out and replacing Huawei, ZTE kit
You've got just over a couple of months to get your compensation requests filed
01 Nov 22:23 | 10
Networks
Having made £1bn in gross savings well ahead of March 2023 deadline, more cuts could be on BT's agenda
Now exec talk turns to defence against corporate takeovers and where next for efficiency gains
01 Nov 15:15 | 13
Advertorial
Huawei sets out its digital transformation stall – and it’s big
Businesses rarely know how to get started. Huawei can do the heavy lifting
30 Oct 22:00 |
Networks
Did you know there is an Oculus for Business? Make that 'was' – because Facebook has canned it after two years
Now it's Quest for Business. Don't all rush at once
29 Oct 16:28 | 9
On Call
Sharing is caring, except when it's your internet connection
The SSID 'AllYouCanEatBuffetOfPr0n' might not help either
29 Oct 08:30 | 127
Systems Approach
Everything you wanted to know about modern network congestion control but were perhaps too afraid to ask
In which a little unfairness can be quite beneficial
27 Oct 08:28 | 6
Networks
DISH Wireless hooks up with Helium's decentralised 5G network via FreedomFi gear
Connecting data and rewarding people with cryptocash, if they want it
26 Oct 20:51 | 4
Networks
Cisco to face trial over trade secrets theft, NDA breach claims after losing attempt to swat Leadfactors lawsuit
Startup alleges IP wound up in Switchzilla's Quad product
26 Oct 18:13 | 12
Networks
South Korean telco goes down, blames DDoS attack, later admits its BGP broke
Good thing the government didn't crank up the national alert system or anything ... Oh no, it did
26 Oct 00:58 | 7
Networks
UK watchdog launches full probe of Motorola Solutions' cop-comms deals on Emergency Services Network
Firm working on both old programme and its replacement - CMA checks potential 'incentive' to delay
25 Oct 15:31 | 12
Who, Me?
Orders wrong, resellers receiving wrong items? Must be a programming error and certainly not a rushing techie
Some of those punch cards may still be lying at the bottom of a lift shaft
25 Oct 07:33 | 112
Networks
Here comes the blob: Asia's top 'net boffin thinks 'shapeless services' could replace the Internet
Common network services are less important when we've moved to apps hosted at the edge
25 Oct 03:58 | 47
Networks
It's 'near-impossible to escape persistent surveillance' by American ISPs, says FTC
Watchdog finds dubious data gathering, illusory solicitations for consent
22 Oct 19:52 | 22
Networks
Nobody cares about DAB radio – so let's force it onto smart speakers, suggests UK govt review
Britain's anti Amazon and Google war gets a second front
22 Oct 13:49 | 172
Networks
UK government puts £5bn on the table in trawl for public sector networks services
I dream of wires, say Whitehall’s big buyers
21 Oct 11:40 |
MBB Forum 2021
Huawei appears to have quenched its thirst for power in favour of more efficient 5G
Never mind the performance, man, think of the planet
21 Oct 08:36 | 1
Networks
Hitting underground pipes and cables costs the UK £2.4bn a year. We need a data platform for that, says government
Atkins wins £23m deal to build National Underground Asset Register
20 Oct 10:45 | 89
Boatnotes II
Ancient with a dash of modern: We joined the Royal Navy to find there's little new in naval navigation
Following the Fleet Navigating Officers' course
20 Oct 08:30 | 54
Networks
HPE's Aruba adopts DPUs, but in a switch, not a server
Decides switches need help performing network functions, just like servers need their CPUs free for core workloads
19 Oct 15:01 | 3
Opinion
Think your phone is snooping on you? Hold my beer, says basic physics
Information wants to be free, and it's making its escape
18 Oct 09:15 | 117
NSFW Who, Me?
What do you mean you gave the boss THAT version of the report? Oh, ****ing ****balls
Say what you mean
18 Oct 08:30 | 86
Networks
German Pirate Party member claims EU plans for a GDPR-compliant Whois v2 will lead to 'doxxing and death lists'
ICANN also dislikes it but web infrastructure firms don't really mind
15 Oct 12:32 | 47
Networks
LAN traffic can be wirelessly sniffed from cables with $30 setup, says researcher
What's a long length of electrical wire? A transmitter, of course
14 Oct 08:30 | 126
Updated
Android OS vendor variants transmit data with no opt-out
Study finds privacy gaps in Android implementations from Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Realme, and LineageOS
13 Oct 00:36 | 62
Opinion
The planet survived six hours without Facebook. Let's make it longer next time
Zucks to lose your #HugOps
11 Oct 10:05 | 150
Networks
UK's VoIP Unlimited hit by DDoSes again, weeks after ransom-linked attacks KO'd it
Outage prompts customer ire, again
08 Oct 13:34 | 4
Networks
Microsoft Teams leaves users hanging on the telephone after PSTN integration goes wobbly
The number you have dialled has not been recognised
07 Oct 16:06 | 10
Networks
PCIe 6.0 spec just months away from completion, doubles max data transfer rate
Or will do in practical terms when devices start appearing, anyway
07 Oct 00:21 | 15
Networks
Marvell says it has samples of TSMC-made 5nm server DPUs – and 3nm is next
Octeon 10 packs Arm CPU cores, crypto and AI acceleration, and more
06 Oct 23:10 | 3
Networks
Supply chain pain: Cisco's base price structure moving north from November
Demand for components at a 10-year high
06 Oct 12:45 | 8
Networks
Facebook rendered spineless by buggy audit code that missed catastrophic network config error
Explains mega-outage with boilerplate response: We try hard, we're sorry we failed, we'll try to do better
06 Oct 02:01 | 96
Networks
Competition watchdog? We've heard of it. But emergency comms firm still on track to Airwave hello to £1.2bn
As replacement system faces delays, the incumbent reaps rewards
05 Oct 08:30 | 20
Updated
We have some sad news about Facebook. It has returned to the internet after six-hour mega outage
It’s not DNS. There is no way it’s just DNS. It was BGP
04 Oct 23:53 | 169
Updated
Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram deplatform themselves: Services down globally
Did someone at Menlo Park flick the wrong switch?
04 Oct 17:43 | 142
Networks
Netflix sued by South Korean ISP after Squid Game fans swell traffic to '1.2Tbps'
You better cough up for all this bandwidth, says broadband biz
01 Oct 22:07 | 153
Updated
Xero, Slack suffer outages just as Let's Encrypt root cert expiry downs other websites, services
'The internet is a complex system'
30 Sep 20:53 | 23
Networks
TskTsk: UK ISP TalkTalk told off by regulator over 'misleading' adverts promising fixed price service
Don't claim 'no mid-contract price rises if that was not the case' says ASA
29 Sep 18:31 | 19
Networks
Email billing blunder meant MVNO iD Mobile told 24,000 customers to pay up or have their service suspended
Rush of subscribers trying to sort it brings network's online portal down
29 Sep 14:05 | 8
Interview
UK altnet CityFibre's boss on its hopes to capitalise on market churn as fibre broadband rolls out
Openreach out and touch a rival
29 Sep 08:30 | 21
Networks
Ofcom unveils broadband switching plans, but providers claim it's not so easy
‘One Touch Switch’ is great, but logistics are an issue for BT, while Virgin cites data protection worries
28 Sep 16:30 | 22
Networks
Typical. Crap weather halts work on subsea fibre-optic cable between UK and France
Summer was good while it lasted
28 Sep 13:30 | 23
Updated
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou admits lying about Iran deal, gets to go home
US puts charges on ice, extradition attempt halted
25 Sep 00:20 | 87
Boatnotes II
'Nobody in their right mind would build a naval base here today': Navigating in and out of Devonport
Twisting and turning like a twisty-turny thing
24 Sep 10:49 | 54
Networks
Japanese boffins say they've created plastic optical fibres to reach places that might break glass
Polymers can transmit at 53Gbps without error correction overheads, and could be just the thing for electric cars
24 Sep 06:02 | 27
Networks
Indian broadband connections top 800 million … sort of
'Broadband' is defined as 512kbps – for now – and just 24 million current connections are wired
24 Sep 02:58 | 9
Networks
If you're not sold on the benefits of 5G, Ericsson suggests you keep an eye on gaming, home broadband
NA CEO predicts takeoff in 18 months max
24 Sep 01:35 | 18
Networks
Need US mobile data? Cellular data plan launches on the Helium Blockchain
The Great Gig in the Sky, or a new plan on GigSky?
23 Sep 16:45 | 3
Networks
BT jittery about Cellnex snapping up UK mobile tower assets
Brit telco says buyout will mean less competition, higher prices, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria
23 Sep 13:43 | 6
Systems Approach
Here's an idea: Verification for computer networks as well as chips and code
What tools are available? What are the benefits? Let's find out
23 Sep 07:28 | 8
Networks
Imagine a fiber optic cable that can sense it's about to be dug up and send a warning
Forget wiring cities with IoT devices – this could be how wide-scale sensing gets done
23 Sep 06:58 | 45
Networks
Hellfire and damnation: Two French monks charged over 5G mast arson attack
What in the blazes?
22 Sep 18:01 | 66
Boatnotes II
Navigating without GPS is one thing – so let's jam it and see what happens to our warship
Meaconing, loss of position, and the Royal Navy's response
22 Sep 09:12 | 91
Boatnotes II
We're all at sea: Navigation Royal Navy style – with plenty of IT but no GPS
El Reg follows the Fleet Navigating Officers' course
21 Sep 08:29 | 122
Networks
3.4 billion people live within range of a mobile network but lack a device to make the connection
ITU and UN think inclusivity may now trump connectivity; Vodafone agrees but fancies more 4G
21 Sep 06:35 | 16
Networks
Three UK says its 5G plans are under threat if tower merger with Euro giant Cellnex is blocked
According to a filing with Brit competition watchdog
20 Sep 10:02 | 14
Networks
How long till some drunkard puts a foot through one of BT's 'iconic, digital smart city communication hubs'?
Phonebox upgrade dishes out internet and more in Kensington and Chelsea
17 Sep 15:32 | 42
Networks
Forget that Loon's balloon burst, we just fired 700TB of laser broadband between two cities, says Alphabet
Up to 20Gbps link sustained over the Congo in comms experiment
17 Sep 00:22 | 39
Networks
CityFibre scores extra £1bn+ of funding to plumb in up to 8 million British homes by 2025
Ikea parent Interogo Holding among the investors
16 Sep 18:30 | 11
Networks
Myanmar junta demanded telcos activate phone interception tools – and we refused, says Telenor
Norwegian carrier insists it's quitting Asian nation to defend human rights – but the buyer it lined up is accused of shady dealings
16 Sep 07:57 | 13
Networks
India changes telco tax laws to help carriers avoid hitting the wall
Moratorium offered to ease burden of $22B debts
16 Sep 05:33 |
Networks
Huawei CEO hopes to woo foreign boffins to work on 6G in Shanghai campus that feels just like home
Staff also told to 'seize the patent position' on sixth-gen mobile networks
15 Sep 23:48 | 15
Networks
DARPA plans thousands-strong satellite constellation Space-BACN sandwich
Mmmm... BACN. Is there anything it can't do?
15 Sep 21:27 | 8
Networks
BT Wholesale wants the channel to give SMBs a nudge before copper sunset in 2025
New products launched to help shift oblivious or straggler firms over ahead of PSTN switch-off
15 Sep 15:43 | 32
Networks
Catch of the day... for Google, anyway: Transatlantic Cornwall cable hauled ashore
Grace Hopper landed
15 Sep 13:28 | 63
Networks
Beijing wants its internet to become 'civilized' by always reflecting Marxist values
Content won't be welcome if it doesn't laud the Party, strays into anything a little tawdry, or diverts from the official line
15 Sep 00:58 | 55
Networks
G7 countries outgun UK in worldwide broadband speed test
Ofcom: You know, superfast broadband is available if you'd care to take it up
14 Sep 13:01 | 50
Networks
Ignore politics of whitebox radio: Mix and match OpenRAN tech will be 10% of market in 2025, claims analyst
Critics say the post-Huawei world of telco networking increases complexity but it has legs
14 Sep 10:15 |
Networks
BT hails hollow-core fibre trials as 'critical advancement' for secure communications
Telco claims to have run Quantum Key Distribution over 6km of cable
13 Sep 16:01 | 7
