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'This is the worst I've seen it' says Arista boss as entire network hardware sector battles component shortages, doubled lead times for semiconductors

Campus, routing, switching, and data centre kit all affected

03 Aug 16:06 | 2

Ever wondered how much data web giants generate? Singaporean super-app Grab says 40TB a day

Reports record Q1 sales and advances plans for SPAC-ulative IPO

03 Aug 05:31 | 8

Undebug my heart: Using Cisco's IOS to take down capitalism – accidentally

Two little letters is all it takes

02 Aug 08:30 | 60

Time for a 'great experiment' says Cisco as it lets team leaders set place of work

Fewer than one-in-four staff want to be in the office for more than three days a week

29 Jul 21:52 | 4

BT says it's trading in line with expectations as revenue slides and pre-tax profit shrinks

Former state monopoly talks up FTTP build out, as does Virgin Media

29 Jul 14:03 | 3

Cellnex complains regulators waved through CK Hutchison mast buyout in Europe – only sticking point is the UK

Cell tower acquisition faces full inquiry from Britain's Competition and Markets Authority

28 Jul 14:30 | 3

UK regulator Ofcom seeks more powers to deal with mega constellations

Operator shall talk unto operator or the big stick will be wielded

27 Jul 15:15 | 17

Remember the bloke who was told by Zen Internet to contact his MP about crap service? Yeah, it's still not fixed

Fear not! Issue is at the 'highest level of escalation,' says ISP

26 Jul 15:10 | 69

China sets goal of running single-stack IPv6 network by 2030, orders upgrade blitz

All levels of industry and government told to get moving, consumers encouraged to buy new Wi-Fi routers

26 Jul 00:45 | 71

Subcontractors working on CityFibre's £45m Derby rollout threaten to 'rip up tarmac' in dispute over payments

Main contractor J McCann insists it takes its obligations 'very seriously'

23 Jul 15:15 | 45

India changes tack and tenders for public-private partnerships to complete national broadband rollout

Tender issued to wire 361,000 thousand more villages, with $2.5bn subsidies dangled

23 Jul 04:30 | 3

Dang vaccines dented our bottom line in the connected home sector, says Netgear

Swings and roundabouts: They also drove a 58% boost to business revenue

22 Jul 12:15 | 9

In the '80s, satellite comms showed promise – soon it'll be a viable means to punt internet services at anyone anywhere

We've come a long way from Terry Wogan's celeb interviews

22 Jul 09:15 | 90

Money can't buy you love: Huawei continues to throw fistfuls of dollars at US lobbying efforts

Another year, and Chinese tech bogeyman is still on the blocklist

21 Jul 22:29 | 4

Watchdog slaps down Three's claims to be building the UK's 'fastest 5G network' – again

Company can't seem to help running its mouth, despite ASA's ruling last year

21 Jul 11:30 | 19

UK.gov's Huawei watchdog says firm made 'no overall improvement' on firmware security but won't say why

HCSEC board's 2020 report filled with pats on back for Chinese biz

20 Jul 17:09 | 12

Tomorrow's wireless world will be fatter, faster, and creepier

Video didn't kill the radio star – it made it stronger than ever

20 Jul 08:30 | 36

Australian government in talks to buy Pacific Islands' top telco

The other bidder is China mobile, so top Oz telco has been approached to step in

20 Jul 02:28 | 3

319 terabits – great Scott! Boffins in Japan speed along information superhighway at new world record

System compatible with existing infra. No you can't eat it now, kids, it's for later, for upcoming 5G backbone

19 Jul 13:03 | 13

Something for the Weekend, Sir?

The lights go off, broadband drops out, the TV freezes … and nobody knows why (spooky music)

It might be because technicians maintain an open-door policy

16 Jul 08:30 | 102

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Right to repair shouldn't exist – not because it's wrong but because it's so obviously right

Gatekeeper capitalism at its most odious

Huawei to America: You're not taking cyber-security seriously until you let China vouch for us

Slams Biden's Executive Order on improving infosec, calls for multilateral trust framework

Following Torvalds' nudge, Paragon's NTFS driver for Linux is on track for kernel

Also: 5.14 rc4 is out, with Linus saying 'nothing to see here'

Credit-card-stealing, backdoored packages found in Python's PyPI library hub

Plus: SolarWinds cyber-spies hit US prosecutors' email systems, and more

Undebug my heart: Using Cisco's IOS to take down capitalism – accidentally

Two little letters is all it takes

Redpilled Microsoft does away with flashing icons on taskbar as Windows 11 hits Beta

Also: Why new OS looks this way, and easier install for Linux subsystem

Australian court rules an AI can be considered an inventor on patent filings

IP lawyer says decision is bad because the last thing we need is robot patent trolls

Microsoft's Cloud PCs debut – priced between $20 and $158 a month

We tried 'em on Windows, iOS and Android, and can't say they're very exciting

Wanna use your Nvidia GPU for acceleration but put off by CUDA? OpenAI has a Python-based alternative

Plus: Software-detected gunshot withdrawn as evidence from trial

Tesla battery fire finally flamed out after four-day conflagration

Only one Megapack went up, adjacent containers mostly kept their cool

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IPv6 still 5–10 years away from mainstream use, but K8s networking and multi-cloud are now real

Gartner’s latest Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking labels network observability and SDN vendor jargon

15 Jul 07:04 | 54

SonicWall suggests people unplug their end-of-life gateways under 'active attack' by ransomware crims

Redeploy in circular filing cabinet if you cannot patch

15 Jul 03:31 | 16

The coming of Wi-Fi 6 does not mean it's time to ditch your cabled LAN. Here's why

There's a time and place for wireless tech, but it still can't compete

14 Jul 21:01 | 136

Cellnex and CK Hutchison have just 5 days to prove mass mobile tower sell-off won't harm competition

Cellnex already 'largest' phone mast supplier, says UK regulator

14 Jul 11:15 | 8

FCC finalizes $1.9bn compo deal for telcos forced to rip'n'replace Huawei, ZTE gear

'An unrealistic attempt to fix what isn’t broken', Big H mutters

14 Jul 01:04 | 2

OK, you're paying data charges in the EU, but you can still roam free in, er, Iceland

Sandwiched between cheese and prawns in UK post-Brexit trade deal

09 Jul 14:59 | 175

UK competition watchdog sniffing around Motorola profits after delay to replace company's Airwave service

Blue-light radio network drags on, adding excess £1.2bn to telco's coffers

08 Jul 16:45 | 8

Mobile carrier Telenor quits Myanmar, says coup makes doing business its way impossible

Firm tries to stand up for customers, human rights, sells to M1 and takes a bath

BT and Communication Workers Union draw up 'principles' to guide future planning on pay and redundancies

Threat of national industrial ballot in May forced telco back around negotiating table

08 Jul 13:46 | 5

Belgian boffins dump Starlink dish terminal's firmware, gain root access and a few ideas

Extra-terrestrial service probed

08 Jul 07:27 | 15

Huawei hits the highway as Volkswagen signs to put 4G in 30 million vehicles

A sport of patent revenue comes in handy when faced with US sanctions and 5G bans

08 Jul 06:58 | 4

Holistic cybersecurity governance yields resilient telco services in 5G world

ZTE focuses on holistic security assurance to establish trust through transparency

Things that needn't be said: Don't plonk a massive Starlink dish on the hood of your car

05 Jul 17:06 | 34

Why won't you copper-ate? Openreach offers capped fibre line rental to wholesalers in bid to shift all that FTTP

Nation's broadband plumber increasingly desperate to ditch its copper network

01 Jul 14:31 | 22

Openreach to UK businesses: Switch is about to hit the fan. Prepare for withdrawal of the copper-based phone network now or risk disruption

PSTN to be axed in 2025

01 Jul 08:30 | 53

Financial watchdog says Google's clampdown on scam ads might not be enough to prevent stricter laws in Britain

That's tough talk – especially after the amazing reversal on £680k it spent on anti-fraud ads with search giant

30 Jun 11:07 | 7

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