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Oracle snaffles up a chunk of SD-WAN market with Talari Networks buyout

As shareholders sign off on Big Red's big pay packet for first time in seven years
16 Nov 16:00

EE, Virgin Media hit with £13.3m fine: Squeezing users for fees for early contract termination not OK

EE: We're sorry, Ofcom. Virgin: Why, that's... unjustified and disproportionate!
13 Comments
16 Nov 11:20

Brits shun country life over phone not-spot fears

Says company that sells switching services
39 Comments
16 Nov 09:19

5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1... Runty-birds are go: 12,000+ internet-beaming mini-satellites OK'd by USA

FCC signs off on broadband-in-space plans, plus connections to Europe's GPS
45 Comments
15 Nov 20:47

HPE Aruba's 510 line of campus hotspots do 802.11ax. Which in plain English is Wi-Fi 6, duh

Of course they've crammed some AI in there too
15 Nov 17:30

Openreach v Ofcom dark fibre legal bill bounced back to Competition Appeal Tribunal

Court of Appeal rules it's wrong to assume regulator should pony up for cases it loses
10 Comments
15 Nov 09:15

'My entire company is without comms': Gamma's Horizon cloud PBX goes DOWN

Great hulk of a system not working after 'emergency works'...
40 Comments
14 Nov 13:25

Oi! Not encrypting RPC traffic? IETF bods would like to change that

RPC over TLS: You know it makes sense
10 Comments
14 Nov 09:13

Ethernet patent inventor given permission to question validity of his own patent

Well, if anyone knows if he fudged it, it would be him
28 Comments
14 Nov 06:07

OK Google, what is African ISP Main One, and how did it manage to route your traffic into China through Russia?

UpdatedSub cable biz raises hand, 'fesses up to causing BGP hijack drama
35 Comments
14 Nov 01:26

New appliances from Cisco aim to make branch SD-WAN easier

Optimised Office 365 performance also on cards
13 Nov 13:02

NBN satellite user waiting for extra gigabytes? Keep waiting

Relief is coming next year, CEO promises
13 Nov 11:25
macron

France: Let's make the internet safer. America, Russia, China: Let's go with 'no' on that

Big names missing from 'Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace'
57 Comments
13 Nov 07:02
Intel 5G modem

Big Q. Tch, what could have persuaded Intel to bring forward 5G chip production six months?

Clue's in the headline. And more importantly: Will anyone but Cupertino care?
13 Nov 02:09

OK Google, why was your web traffic hijacked and routed through China, Russia today?

UpdatedBGP hijacking committed 'grand theft internet'
76 Comments
13 Nov 01:05

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
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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

FCC Commissioner slams San Jose mayor for not approving 5G cells… then slams him for approving them

I'm best, you're worst, cries telecoms watchdog man
09 Nov 20:56

Bloodbath as Broadcom slashes through CA Technologies personnel

I liked it so much, I bought the company – and fired 40 per cent, 2,000, of its US staff
25 Comments
09 Nov 04:56

Master of Arris: Network giant CommScope downloads broadband modem biz for $7.4bn

Brace for cost, job cutting in the aftermath
09 Nov 01:26

In news that will shock absolutely no one, America's cellphone networks throttle vids, strangle rival Skype

AnalysisNet neutrality probe finds it's not the end of the world, though
54 Comments
08 Nov 21:40

Abu Dhabi drops sack of cash into UK broadband challenger Hyperoptic

How much? They won't say – but they now have a board seat
08 Nov 17:00

4G slowcoach Three plans network and IT overhaul to get foot in the door with 5G

The future's... made of ... virtual insanity
12 Comments
08 Nov 11:20

Qualcomm: Welp, there's a $5bn-ish Apple-shaped hole in the books, but at least we have other chip buyers

Chinese mid-tier phone-makers, 5G hype to the rescue
08 Nov 02:39

Six lawsuits against FCC's 5G idiocy – that $2bn windfall for telcos – is bundled into one appeals court sueball

Tenth Circuit wins lawsuit lottery over terrible policy
28 Comments
07 Nov 21:05

Mobile ops and Wi-Fi set to scrap for spectrum in the glorious 5G future

To the death? Not necessarily, but the gloves are off
13 Comments
06 Nov 18:00

British fixed broadband is cheap … and, er, fairly nasty – global survey

Though you get what you pay for, mostly
45 Comments
06 Nov 16:00

Oracle 'net-watcher agrees, China Telecom is a repeat offender for misdirecting traffic

Network admins really need to mind their MANRS
17 Comments
06 Nov 11:50

Cisco swings the axe on permanent staff – hundreds laid off worldwide this week

ExclusiveSwitchzilla's Customer Experience division experiences brunt of HR's 'limited restructuring'
27 Comments
06 Nov 05:10
D-Link networking equipment

Uncle Sam, D-Link told to battle in court over claims of shoddy device security: Judge snubs summary judgment bids

No spittin', no cussin', either, Cali judge rules
11 Comments
06 Nov 01:53
World with light lines representing connectivity connecting various foci on the globe. Pic via Shutterstock

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
Woman suffering after drinking Brussels sprout-flavoured tea

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
Mechanic photo via Shutterstock

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
Shared inspection cover for cables of National Broadband Network (NBN) and electricity provider.

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
man meditating next to a laptop

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...
car acceleration

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

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

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
Traditional English terraced houses with huge council block in the background in south east London

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
36 Comments
30 Oct 13:12
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