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Fortinet CEO: Network and security technologies give rise to security-driven networking
A conversation about the future of network security with Fortinet CEO Ken Xie
Why your providers should support IPv6
IPv6 can help provide better performance for customers, employees and third parties trying to access your hosted applications.
IoT roundup: Carriers expand NB-IoT, Congress eyes IoT security …
A powerful IoT networking technology used by the major carriers continues to gain ground, Congress makes noise about training and a prominent researcher warns of security trouble ahead.
As the internet turns 50, experts weigh future advances and emerging issues
The next 50 years may bring pervasive connectivity, brain-computer interfaces and walled-off areas of the internet.
How to prevent IPv6 VPN breakout
Without properly configured remote-access VPNs, IPv6 traffic from remote devices can escape corporate security controls.
Reimagining-the-Internet project gets funding
A National Science Foundation-financed Internet replacement testbed project lays out its initial plans.
DARPA looks for new NICs to speed up networks
The government agency that gave us the Internet 50 years ago is now looking to drastically increase network speed to address bottlenecks and chokepoints for compute-intensive applications. The Defense Advanced Research Projects...
Space internet service closer to becoming reality
New, low-latency space internet service offerings from OneWeb and SpaceX are closer to becoming reality.
6 years of tech evolution, revolution and radical change
In his farewell TechWatch post, Fredric Paul looks back at how technology has changed in the six years he’s been writing for Network World—and what to expect over the next six years.
Breakthroughs bring a quantum Internet closer
Universities around the world are making discoveries that advance technologies needed to underpin quantum computing.
How SD-Branch addresses today’s network security concerns
New digital technologies such as IoT at remote locations increase the need to ID devices and monitor network activity. That’s where SD-Branch can help, says Fortinet’s John Maddison.
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...
