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Nokia's open SDN, SoC-it-to-me open 'Chiplets', Verisign exits the DDoS protection biz, and more

RoundupQuantum boffinry, SS7 acquisition, Arista results
05 Nov 11:28

Cisco firewalls under attack – and there's no patch: Too many SIPs and they drown in data

Denial-of-service flaw exploited by miscreants in the wild, networking kit giant warns
02 Nov 00:33

While everyone coos at the promise of 5G, UK network Three asks if it can tempt you with 4G+

Need to up dem data rates
31 Comments
01 Nov 16:30

The great and powerful Oz (broadband network): Revs rise, but nbn™'s exec bonuses don't

And competition regulator sees 5G clouds on the horizon
11 Comments
01 Nov 10:17

Cisco chucks its hat into the 400Gbps ring

Low power, low latency, backwards-compatible PHY interfaces, all the buzzwords
31 Oct 23:59

If you have inner peace, it's probably 'cos your broadband works: Zen Internet least whinged-about Brit ISP – survey

As for you, Virgin Media...
78 Comments
31 Oct 09:20

Spectrum-starved Wi-Fi vendors look at DSRC band, sharpen knives

FCC reckons 5.9 GHz coexistence can Pai
31 Oct 05:01

It's been a week since engineers approved a new DNS encryption standard and everyone is still yelling

DoH or DoT? Punch-up time!
87 Comments
30 Oct 23:24

Budget 2018: Landlords could be forced to grant access for full-fibre connections

Currently 'no incentive' for telcos to chase lazy 'uns who ignore requests, admits UK.gov
35 Comments
30 Oct 13:12

Aussies: Want gigabit symmetrical NBN? We've got good news and bad news

It's coming, but only for enterprise customers
30 Oct 10:37

Oz spy boss defends 'high risk vendor' ban

Huawei, ZTE are threats to critical infrastructure. Super Micro servers? No problem
13 Comments
29 Oct 23:00

Pirate radio = drug dealing and municipal broadband is anti-competitive censorship

CommentThe world according to FCC Commissioner Michael O'Rielly
85 Comments
29 Oct 22:16
Stop sign in front of a bush. Image via Shutterstock

Super Cali goes ballistic, net neutrality hopeless? Even Ajit Pai's gloating is something quite atrocious

US govt's legal challenge halts rollout of internet safeguards
29 Comments
26 Oct 22:00
5g snake oil

What can I say about this 5G elixir? Try it on steaks! Cleans nylons! It's made for the home! The office! On fruits!

Yeah, everyone's getting fed up with next-gen wireless hype
30 Comments
26 Oct 19:56
A hand holding an axe in shadow

Nokia layoffs possible, Broadcom waves new network silicon, Arista goes 400G and more

RoundupThe week in networking
26 Oct 12:08

Opinion

Electric spark jump between silver wire isolated

Attempt to clean up tech area has shocking effect on kit

On CallEngineer ecstatic that late night solved his team's circuit board head-scratcher
man in tie eats slice of pizza, looks sad while doing so

Sysadmin misses out on paycheck after student test runs amok

Who, Me?College should've stuck to departmental nomenclature
130 Comments
17 Sep 09:14
black robed individuals in a circle... scary! Photo by shutterstock

Huawei won a contract in Oz. Of course there's a whispering campaign

CommentIt's time national security agencies bring facts to the table
11 Comments
10 Jul 22:24
Boy with binoculars photo via Shutterstock

Web searching died the day they invented SEO

Something for the Weekend, Sir?The truth is out there but you'll never find it
164 Comments
02 Feb 09:03

News

Openreach hacks full-fibre broadband prices for developers... Property developers, that is

Sorry, programmers. No bowel-moving discounts for you
25 Comments
26 Oct 08:38

BT's new chief exec Philip Jansen to trouser £3.9m+ from telco

Former Worldpay chief to start January next year
25 Oct 13:06

Have you ever, ever felt like this? Have strange things happened? Is high-speed data going round the twist?

Oz boffins swivel light to cram up to x100 more data in fiber
26 Comments
25 Oct 04:24

BT, beware: Cityfibre reveals plan to shovel £2.5bn under Britain's rural streets

Full fibre deployment shifts up a gear
55 Comments
24 Oct 11:51

Bad news: Juniper to pass Trump's China tariffs onto customers. Er, good news? It'll be about 4%, says CEO

Meanwhile: Q3 sales slid downwards, profits pointing up
12 Comments
24 Oct 01:43

Ericsson's very good bad quarter, Mozilla encrypts SNI, new TIP projects, and more

Your weekly dose of networking
19 Oct 17:31

Ex-Huawei man claims Chinese giant is suing his startup to 'surpass' US tech dominance

Both parties accuse each other of IP theft
12 Comments
19 Oct 09:50

F5: Don't panic but folks can slip past vulnerable firewall servers, thanks to libssh's credentials-optional 'security'

UpdatedAlso: AWS on avoiding state machine slips
16 Comments
19 Oct 00:52

UK Home Office admits £200m Emergency Services Network savings 'delayed'

Oh, and the £1.1bn Airwave extension hasn't yet been triggered
22 Comments
18 Oct 08:15

Come on, Cisco bug-hunters: No terrifying critical vulns? Are you saving for Halloween?

(It's good news, really)
18 Oct 06:53

Emergency Services Network delays to cost public purse £1.1bn, Home Office reveals

Police forces have 'real anxieties' about incremental uptake, dodgy 4G coverage
26 Comments
16 Oct 08:55

Mobe networks battle to bring comms back after Hurricane Michael smashes US Gulf Coast

'Unprecedented' fibre damage from deadly storm, says Verizon
28 Comments
15 Oct 23:24

Virgin Media? More like Virgin Meltdown: Brit broadband ISP falls over amid power drama

UpdatedStatus: TITSUP – Total Inability To Support Users' Packets
107 Comments
15 Oct 17:49

Cease and DE-CIX: German internet operator fights spies, IEEE eyes 802.11 future and more

RoundupAlso: Juniper and the gang plus AI network research tools
15 Oct 10:25
Old man's hands typing on laptop

300,000 BT pensioners await Court of Appeal pension scheme ruling

RPI or CPI? A percentage point really can make all the difference
60 Comments
12 Oct 11:20
mystery man stands in shadows, talks on phone

You can hear a PIN drop... All quiet on the mobile broadband speed front, says network watcher OpenSignal

UK operators this summer look much like they did last year
11 Oct 14:17

US Congresscritters discover Wi-Fi, updates on Oz's nbn broadband plan and much more

It's your week in the world of networks
07 Oct 09:03
John Chambers at the World Economic Forum 2010

Ex-Cisco chief John Chambers: Tech biz bods are 'too arrogant'

It's easy to be serene from a throne of cash
13 Comments
05 Oct 12:50
Michelle Zatlyn and Jeff Immelt

Former General Electric boss explains how he got the internet wrong

'You can't just give Washington the finger,' says Jeff Immelt at Cloudflare Internet Summit
perplexed woman on phone

Brit mobe operator O2 asks cut-off customers: Have you tried turning it on and off again?

UpdatedClassic. But in the meantime, folk can't make or receive calls
32 Comments
04 Oct 16:32

Palo Alto Networks buys security startup Redlock for $173m

Threat detection outfit gets new owners
04 Oct 14:10
WiFi propaganda for the workers

Wi-Fi Alliance ditches 802.11 spec codes for consumer-friendly naming scheme

Meet Wi-Fi 6, the protocol previously known as 802.11ax
49 Comments
04 Oct 05:01
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