Networking

[ad_1] Video: The industries at the forefront of 5G On a pleasant afternoon in early January 2018, at City Hall in Shreveport, Louisiana, a few dozen folks gathered to discuss the implications of a radical new infrastructure project. It would impact the landscape so distinctly that anyone standing within the ...

[ad_1] (Image: NBN) The government of Western Australia has said 25Mbps is no longer considered fast, and the company responsible for rolling out the National Broadband Network (NBN) across Australia should up its mandated minimum peak speed to 100Mbps. In a submission [PDF] to the inquiry into the rollout of ...

[ad_1] Broadcom delivered better-than-expected second quarter results on strong demand for its data center wares. The company, best known for trying to recently acquire Qualcomm, reported second quarter net income, including discontinued operations, of $3.73 billion, or $8.33 a share, on revenue of $5.01 billion, up 20 percent from a ...

[ad_1] Users hit by outages due a cable being cut may have to wait well into the weekend for service restoration, as work by Telstra is set to continue into Saturday. “We are repairing fibre optic cables cut by a third party, which is impacting several thousand broadband and ADSL ...

[ad_1] Video: Vint Cerf explains why moving to IPv6 is so important. Source: Internet Society/YouTube Today is the sixth anniversary of World IPv6 launch, but despite progress on the transition ‘father of the internet’ Vint Cerf thinks it’s not moving fast enough. If you’re an ISP or enterprise IT shop ...

[ad_1] Video: Microsoft shows of its Project Natick underwater datacenter. Source: Microsoft/YouTube Microsoft has dropped a 40-foot long data-center pod onto the seafloor off the coast from the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney, north of Scotland. That’s a fairly remote location, but Microsoft’s thinking behind phase two of its ...

[ad_1] Dell Technologies delivered a 19 percent gain in revenue in first quarter amid strong sales in servers, networking and commercial PCs. The company said that it is seeing better market conditions due to “improving IT demand driven by digital transformation.” The company reported a first quarter net loss of ...

[ad_1] Comcast on Monday launched its xFi Pods nationally in a move that aims to bolster its home networking and smart home platform efforts. The addition of the xFi Pods follow the launch of its xFi Advanced Gateway and highlight Comcast’s efforts to design hardware and be more of a ...

[ad_1] Facebook is opening up its networking technology kimono a bit as it is open sourcing Katran, a software library used to manage traffic, and outlining its tools to automate network workflows. The tools, outlined at Facebook’s Networking@Scale conference, were outlined in a pair of blog posts. Facebook built Katran ...

[ad_1] Video: VPN: Why you should hide your IP address TANSTAAFL. If you’ve read your Heinlein, you know it’s an acronym for “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” That phrase has actually been around since the days of Old West saloons. If you bought a drink, the ...