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Cisco snuffs Spark, renames it 'WebEx Teams'

RoundupAnd Huawei's given carriers a 14G network (it does 2G to 5G and we did the sums)
19 Apr 07:33

OK, this time it's for real: The last available IPv4 address block has gone

Now for the last time, will you all please shift to IPv6?!
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18 Apr 22:10

Hortonworks unfurls tool to cut grunt work, let firms spend more time rolling in juicy data

And *checks watch* of course it'll be really useful for GDPR
18 Apr 09:40

Cisco casts an eye over IoT protocol landscape: Everything the light touches is ours

Managing Things, with intent
18 Apr 03:54

US government weighs in on GDPR-Whois debacle, orders ICANN to go probe GoDaddy

Yeah that oughta do the trick
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17 Apr 22:10

'Uncarrier' T-Mobile US to un-carry $40m for bumpkin blower bunkum

FCC levies fine equivalent to 32 hours of quarterly profit
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16 Apr 22:57

Net neutrality advocates freak out as lobbyists pull rug from California's draft net neutrality law

Legislation 'could have been written by AT&T and Comcast'
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16 Apr 22:29

Whois is dead as Europe hands DNS overlord ICANN its arse

Can we still have a GDPR moratorium, asks US domain-name body
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14 Apr 07:01

Having ended America's broadband woes, the FCC now looks to space

Satellite operators reminded they need permission to relay broadband internet. Looking at you, Swarm…
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13 Apr 23:54

Small UK firms laying fibre put BT's Openreach to shame – report

But former state monopoly still the biggest single investor
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13 Apr 15:07

Defence of the Dark Fibre Arts: Ofcom delays plans to force BT to open its network

None of the ISPs wanted the 'remedy'
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12 Apr 15:06

What most people think it looks like when you change router's admin password, apparently

Whopping 82% have never changed theirs – survey
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12 Apr 14:12
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Testing, one-one-one-one. Yep, you're ready for net news nuggets

Cloudflare fixes its DNS, Mellanox at NAB, Palo Alto shopping and more packets of presentation layer
12 Apr 03:58
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Juniper admins: Pour that hipster gin and settle in for a session

April patch bunch offers lucky thirteen fixes, mostly for Junos OS
12 Apr 03:02
An angry woman steaming from the ears

Angry Australians, in the .au registry, with the vote of no confidence: CEO, execs face ousting

We pull the covers off latest problems within Oz 'net body
11 Apr 20:12

Opinion

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

Ed Vaizey is right, Matt Hancock hasn't improved broadband

Comment'Hancock pinched all my ideas' jokes former digi minister
23 Nov 12:15
SDN software-defined networking

Google's software-defined network – and its significance – both just accelerated

The SDN industry – ahem – admires Google and will learn from this, to your benefit
09 Nov 08:32

Welcome to the Rise of the Machine-to-Machine. Isn't it time to 'block off' some data ducts?

Sysadmin blogIsolation-based security is getting important
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01 Aug 13:58

News

Google wants to gobble up Nokia's airborne broadband biz – reports

Potential deal said to be at an 'advanced stage'
11 Apr 11:22

Hey, so Europe's GDPR privacy deadline for Whois? We're going to miss it ... by a year or so

Internet registries and registrars provide terrible timeline
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10 Apr 21:56

Can't view memes on London-Southampton train? It's the worst line for mobile coverage

Signal still off the rails
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10 Apr 13:58

Cisco bulks up routers for carriers struggling with CDN traffic

IOS XR gets an SDN injection to help things out, too
10 Apr 02:58

Lib Dems, UKIP's websites go TITSUP* on UK local election launch day

UpdatedNationBuilder outage: Political parties, candidates across world affected
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09 Apr 10:27

Twitter whacks 270,000 terror accounts, majority flagged by internal tools

But warns political meddling risks damaging free speech
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06 Apr 12:52

O2 wolfs down entire 4G spectrum as pals fiddle with their shiny 5G band

UK mobe operators fling £1.3bn at Ofcom auction
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05 Apr 09:30

nbn™ CEO pleads with staff to control costs in ‘seeya later’ letter

Teases research showing the NBN is creating jobs, especially for self-employed women
04 Apr 22:05

nbn™ loses its head: CEO Bill Morrow bails

With the build mostly done, he reckons it’s the right to time to hand over to a new leader
04 Apr 01:53

Cloudflare touts privacy-friendly 1.1.1.1 public DNS service. Hmm, let's take a closer look at that

UpdatedWe'll share query data, but only with these really trustworthy researchers
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03 Apr 06:03

SpaceX has a good day: Successful launch and FCC satellite approval

Latest lift-off will see rocket sinking and a ship playing catch
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30 Mar 18:42

BT to slash landline rentals by 37%... for the broadbandless

Even me nan has the interwebz
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29 Mar 11:13

SYN-SYN-ACK - Your networking news roundup has arrived!

Aruba's AI moves, Marvell and Nvidia vehicle tech, and yes, the Open Networking Summit
29 Mar 04:02

Yes, Emergency Service Network will be late and cost more - UK perm sec

It's agile, innit?
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28 Mar 14:10
Man rools out fibre cable from a large wooden cable reel on a suburban street. Pic via Pixabay

10Mbps for world+dog, hoots UK.gov, and here is how we're doing it

Yeah, expect your bills to go up
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28 Mar 10:54

Cisco separates switching and routing software from hardware

Open networking finally comes to Switchzilla as IOS XR, IOS XE, Nexus OS added to disaggregation strategy
28 Mar 04:56
God of Cloud

Linux Foundation lays out welcome mat for AT&T network OS

'DANOS' code hoped to run 100,000 routers will go open source in H2 2018
28 Mar 04:03
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Manchester Arena attack: National Mutual Aid Telephony system failed

Servers were over capacity, Kerslake review finds
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27 Mar 12:17
sad kids

Parents blame brats' slipping school grades on crap internet speeds

Won't someone please think of the children?
Ajit Pai

FCC boss to block 'national security risk' companies (cough, Huawei, ZTE) from US's $8.5bn broadband pot

Bye bye, says American Pai. Throw my server in the levy
32 Comments
26 Mar 19:24

What a mesh: BT Whole Home Wi-Fi users moan over update

Longed-for firmware update borks some home networks. Be careful what you wish for
58 Comments
26 Mar 10:46
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Dodo, Commander, iPrimus are very sorry about 100/40 NBN plans

Regulator secured refund/exit deals for 16,000 unhappy customers this week
23 Mar 01:15
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