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A data-transmission revolution is underway
Two radical data transmission ideas are being developed. One uses trions instead of electrons to transmit information, and the other replaces the silicon in semiconductors with other compounds.
Evolution of the internet: Celebrating 50 years since Arpanet
50 years after the birth of the internet's precursor, Arpanet, there are more internet-connected devices than people in the world, and traffic is measured in exabytes.
Public internet should be all software-defined
Having a programmable public internet will correct inefficiencies in the current system, engineers at NOIA say.
SoftBank plans drone-delivered IoT and internet by 2023
Drones using satellite backhaul, and operating at around 12 miles up, will provide reliable, widespread communications for use during disasters and in IoT implementations.
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Oracle does-in Dyn, resets DNS services to cloud
Oracle wants its DNS customers to migrate from its Dyn service to Oracle Cloud services, but some of those customers are very unhappy.
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Huawei ban may be delayed, but can the company survive without the U.S.? | TECH(feed)
First the Trump Administration banned business transactions between Huawei and U.S. companies. But now, the White House’s budget director has called for a two-year delay on the ban. If this ban does go into effect, how hard will...
IPv6 upsides: Faster connections, richer data
The benefits of IPv6 over IPv4 are many, but to reap them enterprises need to enable their networks to support the newer protocol, starting with Wi-Fi upgrades.
5G will augment Wi-Fi, not replace it
Jeff Lipton, vice president of strategy and corporate development at Aruba, adds a dose of reality to the 5G hype, discussing how it and Wi-Fi will work together.
Satellite-based internet possible by year-end, says SpaceX
Amazon, Tesla-associated SpaceX and OneWeb are emerging as just some of the potential suppliers of a new kind of data-friendly satellite internet service that could bring broadband IoT connectivity to most places on Earth.
Survey finds SD-WANs are hot, but satisfaction with telcos is not
A recent survey of over 400 IT executives by Cato Networks found that legacy telcos might be on the outside looking in for SD-WANs.
Online performance benchmarks all companies should try to achieve
With digital performance more important than ever, companies must ensure their online performance meets customers’ needs. A new ThousandEyes report can help them determine that.
Does your cloud-access security broker support IPv6? It should.
Knowingly or not, enterprises employ IPv6 for many of their internet connections, and that means CASBs should support the protocol, too, in order to enforce policies on all customer traffic. Here's how major CASBs stack up.
Performance-Based Routing (PBR) – The gold rush for SD-WAN
The inefficiency factor in the case of traditional routing is one of the main reasons why SD-WAN is really taking off.
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Apple showcases new streaming service, plus, Facebook's outage | TECH(feed)
Its servers were down for hours, and then news broke that two of Facebook’s top executives are leaving the company. We’ll take a look at that on today’s episode of TECH(feed). We’ll also discuss Apple new video streaming service.
Facebook gets into the fiber-optic connectivity business
Facebook created a subsidiary called Middle Mile Infrastructure to sell excess capacity on its fiber, starting with new fiber-optic routes between its data center campuses in Virginia, Ohio, and North Carolina.
SD-WAN: 10 essential considerations
SD-WAN offers cost savings, improved reliability, security and more.
Cisco warns a critical patch is needed for a remote access firewall, VPN and router
Cisco is warning organizations with remote users using a particular wireless firewall, VPN and router to patch a critical vulnerability in each that could let attackers break into the network.
ICANN urges adopting DNSSEC now
Continuing attacks on directory name services have prompted ICANN to prompt enterprise DNS uses to push their suppliers for DNSSEC services to block some of these attacks that can compromise corporate data.
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