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AI ambition is pushing copper to its breaking point

SC24 Ayar Labs contends silicon photonics will be key to scaling beyond the rack and taming the heat

The Future of the Datacenter - 2025 and Beyond28 Nov 2024 | 6

China’s tech giants deliver chips for Ethernet variant tuned to HPC and AI workloads

'Global Scheduling Ethernet' looks a lot like tech the Ultra Ethernet Consortium is also working on

Networks26 Nov 2024 | 1

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FCC probes whether it can pop a cap in ISP data caps

'Our networks have the capacity to meet consumer demand without these restrictions,' says chair

Networks16 Oct 2024 | 10

Openreach reveals latest locations facing the copper chop

A reminder to get fiber (eventually) or get left behind

Networks16 Oct 2024 | 65

BBS legend Ward Christensen logs off for last time at 78

Obit Co-creator of the Computerized Bulletin Board System heads for big forum in the sky

Bootnotes15 Oct 2024 | 23

Three and Vodafone: We need to merge because our networks are rubbish

Voda users have to fall back to 2G in some places after 3G switchoff, docs claim

Networks07 Oct 2024 | 78

Why Cisco reportedly wants in on CoreWeave's rent-a-GPU racket

Analysis This may help Switchzilla hit $1B AI sales goal by FY25

Networks06 Oct 2024 |

SpaceX accuses 'meme-stock' rival of 'misinformation' over Starlink signals waiver

AST SpaceMobile partners 'provide zero technical support for their opposition,' letter to FCC rages

Networks04 Oct 2024 | 29

Cisco is abandoning the LoRaWAN space, and there's no lifeboat for IoT customers

Support stretches to end of 2029, no more maintenance beyond 2026

Networks02 Oct 2024 | 5

AWS must fork out $30.5M after losing P2P network patent scrap

No one really wins when a troll, sorry, assertion entity scores a victory

Networks30 Sep 2024 | 31

HPE patches three critical security holes in Aruba PAPI

More 9.8 bugs? Ay, papi!

Patches26 Sep 2024 | 1

Telcos scolded for unwanted erection of utility poles in race to wire up Britain

Telecoms minister pleads with operators to work together

Networks16 Sep 2024 | 80

DoE drops $23M in effort to reinvigorate supercomputing

Challenges span energy efficiency, memory, programmability, and national security

Systems09 Sep 2024 | 3

Xockets rockets Nvidia: Blackwell debut threatened by DPU patent claims

GPU giant accused of colluding with Microsoft, RPX to sideline startup

Systems08 Sep 2024 | 11

Foot-thick wall workaround: Gigabit network links beamed through solid concrete

Makes cabling a bit less onerous, says WaveCore maker

Networks06 Sep 2024 | 25

13 days into the outage, will Kaseya's Traverse trip back to life today?

'Potential issue' in infrastructure of network monitoring tool results in lengthy, ongoing downtime

OSes05 Sep 2024 | 12

White House thinks it's time to fix the insecure glue of the internet: Yup, BGP

Better late than never

Networks03 Sep 2024 | 26

Cisco slashes thousands of staff, 7% of entire workforce, pivots into AI

Reorg of entire biz as tech giant addresses downturn in core networking segment

Networks15 Aug 2024 | 15

Cisco plans to slash thousands more jobs amid AI, cybersecurity push

Updated Cuts reportedly to come as soon as Wednesday's earnings release

Networks12 Aug 2024 | 13

What a glimpse inside the Black Hat NOC reveals about infosec pros' security habits

Black Hat Basic Auth among web traffic? Possible flaw in a well-known commercial VPN product? 'Security has to watch its own things'

Black Hat and DEF CON12 Aug 2024 | 3

HPE's $14B bid for Juniper waved through by UK regulator

Probe began in June and was over by August, no need for corporate lobbying (you hearing this Microsoft?)

Networks07 Aug 2024 | 4

Huawei Cloud built a network monitor so sensitive it spotted the impact of a single faulty chip

Sigcomm 2024 Focus on physical ports helped spot issues across 100,000 switches and a million servers

Networks07 Aug 2024 | 5

Need to move 1.2 exabytes across the world every day? Just Effingo

Sigcomm 2024 That’s what Google calls its massively parallel data copy service operating on dozens of clusters

Cloud Infrastructure Month06 Aug 2024 | 25

Tencent Cloud's home-grown traffic-tamer halves WAN latency

Sigcomm 2024 MegaTE can arrange things so each endpoint gets just the network it needs

Cloud Infrastructure Month05 Aug 2024 | 3

NASA sends 4K video from a flying plane to the ISS using lasers

900 Mbps from Earth to orbit, and I still can't get reliable Wi-Fi in my backyard

Networks25 Jul 2024 | 22

Microsoft wants fatter pipes between its AI datacenters, asks Lumen to make light work of it

Is this what the kidz call a glow-up?

Networks24 Jul 2024 | 1

FCC: US telcos a long way off, several billions short of removing Chinese kit

Updated Just 12% of providers have completed rip and replace of ZTE, Huawei

Networks11 Jul 2024 | 4

China pushes for network upgrade blitz as IPv6 adoption slows

UPDATED Almost 800 million use the protocol, with more to come as Wi-Fi mandate arrives order arrives to quit NAT

Networks10 Jul 2024 | 26

RADIUS networking protocol blasted into submission through MD5-based flaw

If someone can do a little MITM'ing and hash cracking, they can log in with no valid password needed

Research10 Jul 2024 | 11

64% of people not happy about idea of AI-generated customer service

Not unreasonably, nearly half worried it would give them the 'wrong answers'

Personal Tech09 Jul 2024 | 54

FCC: T-Mobile US unit gave blind customer the runaround in massive tech support fail

Assurance Wireless must sort out accessibility after handing customer a phone without a screen reader

Networks05 Jul 2024 | 22

Paessler pulls subscription licensing switcheroo on PRTG Network Monitor

Exclusive Customers seek alternatives after claiming costs up from perpetual

Networks05 Jul 2024 | 26

Cloudflare debuts one-click nuke of web-scraping AI

Take that for ignoring robots.txt!

Off-Prem03 Jul 2024 | 49

Nokia to buy Infinera for $2.3B

Aims to expand optical networking biz, particularly in North America

Networks28 Jun 2024 | 2

Alibaba Cloud reveals its datacenter design, homebrew network used for LLM training

Exclusive 15,000 GPUs per DC, in hosts packing eight apiece, plus nine NICs – helped by switches with custom heat sinks

Systems27 Jun 2024 | 6

AI-assisted automation for clouds and networks climbs Gartner's hype cycles

Yes, AI will volunteer to run your IT estate. You might be a fool to trust it

AI + ML20 Jun 2024 | 2

Um, what ever did happen with network automation?

Systems Approach Is it lingering somewhere between fusion power and self-driving cars?

Networks17 Jun 2024 | 10

FCC takes some action against notorious BGP

How's your RPKI-based security plan coming along? Feds want to know

Networks07 Jun 2024 | 9

Wi-Fi can watch your heart beating, Taiwan’s datacenter power outfit Delta finds

Computex May come in handy for healthcare orgs, or to turn you off private 5G

Networks06 Jun 2024 | 10

Nvidia CEO brushes off Big Tech's attacks on NVLink network tech

Computex Says UALink and Ultra Ethernet won't be threat for years as he reveals successor to Blackwell and free NIMs

Networks04 Jun 2024 | 1

Court accepts Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim's insider trading settlement

Billionaire Arista chief architect to pay inconsequential sum via SEC

Networks03 Jun 2024 | 7

UK may not hit goal of 95% mobile coverage, commons committee warns

Sitting in a not-spot in the countryside? It's not great news

Networks03 Jun 2024 | 68

Alibaba Cloud built its edge network hardware on Intel Ethernet ASICs

Custom 2U boxen with Tofino inside are in production and mean Chinese cloud has more space for servers

Off-Prem28 May 2024 |

TR-069, a protocol that made broadband manageable, turns 20. What's coming next?

Interview In less than 13 minutes, we'll get you up to speed on USP

Networks23 May 2024 | 10

John Deere now considers VMs to be legacy tech, Ethernet and Wi-Fi on the brink

Next Plans robo-tractors to help as folks flee the farm but the planet stays hungry

Virtualization22 May 2024 | 30

Starlink offers 'unusually hostile environment' to TCP

Hopping satellites every 15 seconds will do that to a protocol, natch

Networks22 May 2024 | 98

Big Tech is not much help when fighting a junta, and FOSS doesn't ride to the rescue

Opponents of Myanmar’s internet-nobbling military government don't like when Facebook asks for their real names

Security21 May 2024 | 25

Google Cloud shows it can break things for lots of customers – not just one at a time

Deleted about 40 networks that services needed, causing late Thursday fun

Off-Prem20 May 2024 | 29

Undersea cables must have high-priority protection before they become top targets

Interview It's 'essential to national security' ex-Navy intel officer tells us

Networks08 May 2024 | 36

Patch up – 4 critical bugs in ArubaOS lead to remote code execution

Ten vulnerabilities in total for admins to apply

Patches02 May 2024 | 4

Lights about to go out on US Affordable Connectivity Program

A partial benefit in May then subsidy gets unplugged once and for all

Networks02 May 2024 | 17

Satellite of love: SES and Intelsat finally tie the knot in $3.1B acquisition

Second time lucky as competition from Starlink and pals increases

Networks30 Apr 2024 | 1

Cisco creates architecture to improve security and sell you new switches

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

Security18 Apr 2024 | 11

Alibaba Cloud reveals network telemetry tool that helped cut number of engineers needed by 86%

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

Off-Prem16 Apr 2024 | 4

Zero-day exploited right now in Palo Alto Networks' GlobalProtect gateways

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

Cyber-crime12 Apr 2024 | 13

Starlink clashes with Telecom Italia over frequency data sharing

Refusal to play ball may result in satellite operator moving investment elsewhere

Networks02 Apr 2024 | 18

HPE bakes LLMs into Aruba as AI inches closer to network takeover

+Comment But don't worry, the models are here to help summarize technical docs and answer your questions ... for now

Networks28 Mar 2024 | 3

Vernor Vinge, first author to describe cyberspace and 'The Singularity,' dies at 79

Obituary CompSci and math professor by trade, he envisaged a galactic Usenet, and was utterly brilliant

Offbeat22 Mar 2024 | 72

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AI ambition is pushing copper to its breaking point

China’s tech giants deliver chips for Ethernet variant tuned to HPC and AI workloads

UK watchdog hints Voda-Three merger will likely pass

Broadcom juices VeloCloud SD-WAN for AI networking

No-Nvidias networking club convenes in search of open GPU interconnect

xAI picked Ethernet over InfiniBand for its H100 Colossus training cluster

NARROWER TOPICS

NARROWER TOPICS

FCC probes whether it can pop a cap in ISP data caps

Openreach reveals latest locations facing the copper chop

BBS legend Ward Christensen logs off for last time at 78

Three and Vodafone: We need to merge because our networks are rubbish

Why Cisco reportedly wants in on CoreWeave's rent-a-GPU racket

SpaceX accuses 'meme-stock' rival of 'misinformation' over Starlink signals waiver

Cisco is abandoning the LoRaWAN space, and there's no lifeboat for IoT customers

AWS must fork out $30.5M after losing P2P network patent scrap

HPE patches three critical security holes in Aruba PAPI

Telcos scolded for unwanted erection of utility poles in race to wire up Britain

DoE drops $23M in effort to reinvigorate supercomputing

Xockets rockets Nvidia: Blackwell debut threatened by DPU patent claims

Foot-thick wall workaround: Gigabit network links beamed through solid concrete

13 days into the outage, will Kaseya's Traverse trip back to life today?

White House thinks it's time to fix the insecure glue of the internet: Yup, BGP

Cisco slashes thousands of staff, 7% of entire workforce, pivots into AI

Cisco plans to slash thousands more jobs amid AI, cybersecurity push

What a glimpse inside the Black Hat NOC reveals about infosec pros' security habits

HPE's $14B bid for Juniper waved through by UK regulator

Huawei Cloud built a network monitor so sensitive it spotted the impact of a single faulty chip

Need to move 1.2 exabytes across the world every day? Just Effingo

Tencent Cloud's home-grown traffic-tamer halves WAN latency

NASA sends 4K video from a flying plane to the ISS using lasers

Microsoft wants fatter pipes between its AI datacenters, asks Lumen to make light work of it

FCC: US telcos a long way off, several billions short of removing Chinese kit

China pushes for network upgrade blitz as IPv6 adoption slows

RADIUS networking protocol blasted into submission through MD5-based flaw

64% of people not happy about idea of AI-generated customer service

FCC: T-Mobile US unit gave blind customer the runaround in massive tech support fail

Paessler pulls subscription licensing switcheroo on PRTG Network Monitor

Cloudflare debuts one-click nuke of web-scraping AI

Nokia to buy Infinera for $2.3B

Alibaba Cloud reveals its datacenter design, homebrew network used for LLM training

AI-assisted automation for clouds and networks climbs Gartner's hype cycles

Um, what ever did happen with network automation?

FCC takes some action against notorious BGP

Wi-Fi can watch your heart beating, Taiwan’s datacenter power outfit Delta finds

Nvidia CEO brushes off Big Tech's attacks on NVLink network tech

Court accepts Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim's insider trading settlement

UK may not hit goal of 95% mobile coverage, commons committee warns

Alibaba Cloud built its edge network hardware on Intel Ethernet ASICs

TR-069, a protocol that made broadband manageable, turns 20. What's coming next?

John Deere now considers VMs to be legacy tech, Ethernet and Wi-Fi on the brink

Starlink offers 'unusually hostile environment' to TCP

Big Tech is not much help when fighting a junta, and FOSS doesn't ride to the rescue

Google Cloud shows it can break things for lots of customers – not just one at a time

Undersea cables must have high-priority protection before they become top targets

Patch up – 4 critical bugs in ArubaOS lead to remote code execution

Lights about to go out on US Affordable Connectivity Program

Satellite of love: SES and Intelsat finally tie the knot in $3.1B acquisition

Cisco creates architecture to improve security and sell you new switches

Alibaba Cloud reveals network telemetry tool that helped cut number of engineers needed by 86%

Zero-day exploited right now in Palo Alto Networks' GlobalProtect gateways

Starlink clashes with Telecom Italia over frequency data sharing

HPE bakes LLMs into Aruba as AI inches closer to network takeover

Vernor Vinge, first author to describe cyberspace and 'The Singularity,' dies at 79

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