NetFlash: AT&T going 40G

AT&T going 40G

AT&T plans to begin upgrading its global MPLS backbone to 40Gbps OC-768 speeds this summer. The upgrade is part of AT&T’s network expansion plan announced in February. Click here for more.

Nortel, Huawei end broadband venture

Add “ultra” broadband access to the list of product programs Nortel has killed. Nortel and Huawei have ceased their joint venture to develop broadband products. According to a Nortel 10Q SEC filing this week, Nortel and Huawei have decided “not to proceed” with the joint venture to develop gigabit “ultra” broadband access products announced in February. Click here for more.

Net neutrality debate

As the Senate begins debate on network neutrality next week, we’ll have proponents of both sides online to answer your questions and challenges in a threaded discussion: Scott Cleland, chairman of NETcompetition.org, which represents represents telecom and wireless companies and Paul Misener, vice president of global public policy at Amazon.com. But don’t wait – send Executive Editor Adam Gaffin the questions you’d pose to them now, and we’ll start the forum off with them.

Intel’s long-range research focuses on energy efficiency and performance

Intel Wednesday showed off a range of advanced-stage research projects to the press and potential partners at its fourth annual Research at Intel Day held at its facility in Santa Clara. The projects spanned mobile technology, enterprise computing, large-scale computing platforms and “people-centered” computing and are being developed under Intel’s current mantra of “driving energy efficiency and performance.” Click here for more.

HP reins in telecommuting for IT staffers

HP, which gained national recognition for its flexible workplace practices, is pulling back on the ability of some of its IT employees to work from home. Click here for more.

So you want to be a CISO?

Chief information security officers and the important work they do increasingly are being recognized in the C suite. Here’s how to rise through the ranks and become a CISO. Click here for more.

Accept failure

Armando Fox believes that, if you can’t build fail-proof systems, you should at least build systems that can recover so quickly that service blips become negligible. The researcher explains in this Q&A. Click here for the full interview.

Google News and the gay marriage vote

Paul McNamara writes: The U.S. Senate rejected a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage and the story immediately vaults into the top slot on Google News. In fact, it is practically no time before 1,647 articles about the vote are listed there. So which of those 1,647 gets listed first? And why? Click here for more.

Today on Layer 8, where no one paid $4 million for our baby pictures:

Google: We were wrong about China; gas prices makes more consider teleworking; digital cameras – on the way out?; and what would you do for an iPod?; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.

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