Networks

This game of political ping-pong continues

The FCC voted Thursday to restore America's net neutrality rules, nearly seven years after they were taken offline.…

Watch this webinar for a guide to building efficient, secure electricity grids in the digital age

Sponsored Post  Thanks to recent technological advancements, there are many different sources of electricity available which can help organisations address our growing demand for energy from power hungry devices such as electric vehicles (EVs) while reducing their reliance on fossil fuels like petroleum, coal and gas.…

Machine learning has its place, just not in ways that suits today's hypesters

Systems Approach  Full disclosure: I have a history with AI, having flirted with it in the 1980s (remember expert systems?) and then having safely avoided the AI winter of the late 1980s by veering off into formal verification before finally landing on networking as my specialty in 1988.…

Huawei’s Net5.5G converged IP network can improve cloud performance, reliability and security, says the company

Sponsored Feature  The appetite across most vertical sectors for migrating applications and services to the cloud shows no sign of abating. Independent analyst firm Gartner estimates that global spending on public cloud services will hit $679 billion this year.…

Don't get too comfortable: 'Line Dancer' malware may be targeting other vendors, too

A previously unknown and "sophisticated" nation-state group compromised Cisco firewalls as early as November 2023 for espionage purposes — and possibly attacked network devices made by other vendors including Microsoft, according to warnings from the networking giant and three Western governments.…

ZBLAN fibers made in space hopefully don't crystallize and are far less brittle, opening the path to faster photonics

Fiber optics of the future may be manufactured in space if the results of a recent ISS experiment prove its feasibility.…

How AI at the edge offers potential to provide valuable, real-time insights to better navigate complex data and opportunities

Commissioned  The Internet of Things (IoT) has shown significant growth and promise, with data generated by IoT devices alone expected to reach 73.1ZB (zettabytes) by 2025.…

LEO rising in US military: Close encounters of the recon kind

SpaceX is understood to be working with aerospace and defense biz Northrop Grumman on a spy satellite program that provides the US military with improved intelligence imagery.…

UK reckoning with prospect of millions of homes with obsolete hardware

Months after being quizzed by a committee of cross-party MPs, the UK government is still failing to clarify ways to support the substitution of millions of smart meters that will become obsolete when 2G and 3G networks are switched off.…

Some say various cell services were out, others still say landlines were affected. What just happened?

Widespread 911 outages in the US appear to have mostly been resolved, but that doesn't mean the cause is clear.…

Hypershield detects bad behavior and automagically reconfigures networks to snuff out threats

Cisco has developed a product called Hypershield that it thinks represents a new way to do network security.…

Damn you, network virtualization

A law professor is warning a proposed reintroduction net neutrality in the US will allow cellular networks to create “fast lanes” for some applications, and that this undermines the entire net neutrality principle.…

Comms services and AI contributing to increase, but vendors are taking 'risks'

Gartner expects global IT spending to grow 8 percent in 2024 to $5.06 trillion in a revised forecast from the 6.8 percent uptick which the analyst predicted in January.…

Also warns of brute force attacks targeting its own VPNs, Check Point, Fortinet, SonicWall and more

Cisco is fighting fires on a couple cybersecurity fronts this week involving its Duo multi-factor authentication (MFA) service and its remote-access VPN services.…

Zoonet employs 'elegant generalization of ping and traceroute' among other tricks

Exclusive  Alibaba Cloud has detailed the telemetry tool it uses to look out for glitches in customers' virtual networks, and revealed it’s reduced the number of personnel dedicated to troubleshooting by 86 percent since developing the system.…

There's no Huawei we saw that coming

Years after Uncle Sam ordered US telecommunications providers to rip and replace Huawei kit from their networks, Beijing is telling telcos in China to strip out American-made chips.…

Out of the PAN-OS and into the firewall, a Python backdoor this way comes

Palo Alto Networks on Friday issued a critical alert for an under-attack vulnerability in the PAN-OS software used in its firewall-slash-VPN products.…

Self-preferencing pushback in Europe and US seems to have had some effect

Amazon's search results have become less likely to favor the company's own products, according to research from a University of Minnesota economist.…

Adds Hawaii stopover for another planned link

Google announced on Wednesday it will invest $1 billion in two submarine cables to create new routes between the US and Japan.…

ISPs are just going to have to swallow it

The FCC's "nutrition labels" for broadband internet services are now a required part of doing business for American ISPs.…