Networks Russian oligarch's financial network crashed thanks to a crank and a cleaner What a wind-up!
Networks Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear The Register gets a look inside AWS' networking lab in Cupertino
Networks Bandwidth hogs rejoice, Celestica's latest switch is bristling with 64 ports of 1.6 Tbps Ethernet Networking kit arrives just in time for Nvidia's 1.6 Tbps ConnectX-9 NICs
Networks US clarifies mobile hotspots part of foreign router ban despite rarity of American made consumer kit Silicon often from US, but the kit from APAC and elsewhere
Networks IOWN Global Forum targets datacenter interconnects to scatter AI infrastructure Fast WAN consortium thinks neoclouds are ripe for hookups
Networks Cisco Wi-Fi boxes are filling their disks with 5MB of undeletable data every day Fix for critical flaw is an OS update you may not be able to make because the junk data uses all memory
Networks IPv6 carried half of internet traffic – for one day, according to Google We're not half way there, we're still livin' on a prayer
Public Sector Cops hand Motorola £25M no-bid deal to keep 2000-era radios alive Biz as usual for Brit public sector: ESN replacement is 12 years late and £3B over budget
Networks QUIC will soon be as important as TCP – but it's vastly different Deciphering the third transport protocol's four RFCs is a task to rival the proverbial blind man trying to understand an elephant
Networks Not all networks can handle AI traffic – and experts are sounding alarms Y'all been focusing on compute and forgot about how the data moves around
Personal Tech Electronics industry says FCC's foreign-made router policy is a bit of a mesh Trade group warns onshoring demands will leave Americans stuck with older gear
Public Sector South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access Everyone gets unlimited 400 Kbps access, oldies get expanded caps, and leaky telcos get their social license back
PaaS + IaaS Google wants more Intel inside ... its datacenters, taps Chipzilla for more SmartNICs Custom ASIC biz now running at a $1B annual pace for Intel
Networks No-Nvidia interconnect club delivers 2.0 spec before v1.0 silicon ships UALink splits work on physical layer and protocol specs to speed things up, literally and metaphorically
Networks US military contractor open sources tool for validating hidden communications networks Maude-HCS from RTX (formerly Raytheon) helps model and validate hidden communication systems
Networks FCC says it's making it easier for US telcos to ditch legacy lines But critics say stopping some engineering tests is not the sort of corner you want to cut
Networks Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers Unfortunately, there aren't many options unless you're Starlink
Networks Switzerland built a secure alternative to BGP. The rest of the world hasn't noticed yet SCION: Proven in banking and healthcare, slow to spread everywhere else
Networks Fresh indie broadband provider incoming as Google's fiber biz and Stonepeak’s Astound merge Alphabet to remain 'significant minority shareholder'
On-Prem Lightmatter says latest photonics will slash datacenter fiber bills in half Latest optical engine may not be CPO, but it's still better than pluggables
Cyber-crime Cisco warns of two more SD-WAN bugs under active attack Switchzilla says flaws could allow file overwrites or privilege escalation
Networks Trump administration spoiling for a fight over global satellite regulations FCC not pleased about EU space tech reqs to enter Common market, among other things
Networks Huawei pushes networks toward AI-driven intelligence at MWC Barcelona 2026 Carrier infrastructure moves beyond connectivity to integrate AI functions at the heart of network operations
Systems Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs fills its wallet to mass-produce CPO chiplets Company aims to stitch tens of thousands of GPUs together for more efficient training and inference
Networks Qualcomm, Nvidia ready for 'AI-native' 6G, if only the world knew what it was Meanwhile, formal 6G specs are still in the works
Security Texas sues TP-Link over China links and security vulnerabilities State disputes the company's claim that its routers are made in Vietnam
Security Palo Alto CEO says AI isn’t great for business, yet Sees little enterprise AI adoption other than coding assistants, buys Koi for what comes next
Networks Passive RFIDs can now stream telemetry data from sensors To advance the ‘ambient internet of things’ – no batteries required
Systems Oxide plans new rack attack, packing in Zen 5 CPUs and DDR5 RAM Oxide says AMD’s Turin EPYCs are coming, switch revamp under review, more open hardware in the works
Networks Cisco hikes prices to cover memory cost rises, says you don’t much care Switchzilla is only getting a small slice of the AI boom, but sees a campus refresh wave cresting
Edge + IoT Open Compute taps IOWN to help design distributed datacenters and a 'computing continuum' Because AI won’t only run in Big Tech’s giant GPU garages, and won't tolerate slow connections
Networks Cisco looses Splunk to probe and tame its growing agentic menagerie Just change the name to CAIsco already, Chuck
Cyber-crime Singapore spent 11 months booting China-linked snoops out of telco networks Operation Cyber Guardian involved 100-plus staff across government and industry
Networks AI vastly reduced stress of IPv6 migrations in university experiment Leaving you to worry about the effects on your team, vendor lock-in, tokenomics, and more
Networks Cisco challenges Broadcom, Nvidia with a 102.4T switch of its own Switchzilla leans on P4 programmability and revamped congestion controls to differentiate its latest Silicon One ASIC
Networks Dijkstra’s algorithm won’t be replaced in production routers any time soon Researchers have found a new approach to finding shortest paths, but it's complex
Networks Openreach turns up the heat to force laggards off legacy copper lines Half a million businesses face successive price hikes ahead of PTSN shutdown
Security DDoS deluge: Brit biz battered as botnet blitzes break records UK leaps to sixth in global flood charts as mega-swarm unleashes 31.4 Tbps Yuletide pummeling
Networks CISA orders federal agencies to rip out EOL edge kit before cybercrooks move in A year to replace end-of-support firewalls, routers, and VPN gateways
Networks EU's Digital Networks Act sets telcos squabbling before the ink is dry Comms harmonization plan already drawing fire from operators and Big Tech alike
Networks AI networking startup Upscale AI scores $200M to challenge Nvidia's NVSwitch Plans to swing SkyHammer silicon into UALink switches later this year
Networks Cloudflare pours cold water on ‘BGP weirdness preceded US attack on Venezuela’ theory Suggests rotten routing, not evidence of a cyber-strike before kinetic action
Networks IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn’t taken over the world, but don't call it a failure The world has passed it by in many ways, yet it remains relevant
Networks UK prepares to wave goodbye to 3G telecoms as tri-hard tech retires Virgin Media the last to go as users of older mobiles warned to upgrade
Networks China turns on a vast experimental network it says is an heir to ARPANET Beijing wants to 'seize the initiative in the international competition in cyberspace'
Networks Ofcom comes knocking after BT, Three mobile outages cut 999 access Watchdog reviews if failures breached availability rules after downtime left millions unable to make calls
Systems Silicon photonics won’t matter ‘anytime soon’ says Broadcom CEO Chips ’n’ code giant sitting on $50bn of custom AI accelerator orders, sees more to come
Networks Kyocera claims 5.2 Gbps underwater laser data blast in lab tests Japanese outfit aims to improve comms for aquatic drones
Systems HPE's server and hybrid cloud revenue go into reverse amid historical hardware splurge Never mind, says jolly green giant, we’re a networking-centric company now
Networks TLS 1.3 includes welcome improvements, but still allows long-lived secrets Tricky tradeoffs are hard to avoid when designing systems, but the choice not to use LLMs for some tasks is clear
Virtualization HPE positions Morpheus stack as enterprise alternative to VMware IT giant touts unified management, stretched clusters, and AI-ready networking at Discover Barcelona
Networks Unofficial IETF draft calls for grant of five nonillion IPv6 addresses to ham radio operators Would not massively deplete IPv6, might challenge internet governance
SC25 Copackaged optics have officially found their killer app - of course it's AI With power in such short supply, every watt counts
Networks ZTE collaborates with Telkomsel to build an UE-transparent hybrid private network Setting a new standard for digital transformation with a scalable hybrid private network for next-generation factories
Networks Google links Android’s Quick Share to Apple’s AirDrop, without Cupertino’s help Relies on very loose permissions, but don’t worry – Google wrote it in Rust
Networks Networking startup Meter takes a page from the Steve Jobs playbook Vertical integration meets subscriptions
Networks Starlink’s method of dodging solar storms may make it slower, for longer Researchers think SpaceX needs to revisit its resilience regime
SC25 Nvidia-backed photonics startup Ayar Labs eyes hyperscale customers with GUC design collab Who needs 600 kilowatt racks when a single computer can span entire datacenters?
Networks China Mobile and ZTE complete Pre6G GigaMIMO field trial, achieving breakthroughs in network capacity and user experience Pre6G GigaMIMO delivers multi-layer capacity boost on live 5G-A network
Networks ZTE and Partners co-create value by providing digital delivery services to Europe and America for a more intelligent future Partnership expands intelligent infrastructure across key markets
Networks Networking students need an explanation of the internet that can fit in their heads Networks have changed profoundly, except for the parts that haven’t
Networks ZTE and XLSMART celebrate 10,000-site wireless delivery milestone in Indonesia ZTE and XLSMART achieve large-scale network deployment success, boosting nationwide coverage and paving the way for next-gen, automated, and energy-efficient wireless innovation.
Security Cisco creating new security model using 30 years of data describing cyber-dramas and saves Doubles parameters to over 17 billion, to detect threats and recommend actions
AI + ML Perplexity shows how to run monster AI models more efficiently on aging GPUs, AWS networks Some clever networking hacks open the door
Networks Network operator ponders building a new submarine cable – on land It’s less bonkers than it sounds given the challenges of wiring Africa
Networks ISPs more likely to throttle netizens who connect through carrier-grade NAT: Cloudflare When operators see danger, innocent users are dragged down along with bad actors
AI + ML Nvidia adds AI peanut butter to Nokia's 6G network chocolate, throws in $1 billion The pair intends to develop cellular infrastructure for running edge AI workloads
Networks How to build sustainable AI? Start with the network Baking in sustainability begins with smart network design
Networks Literal crossed wires sent cops after innocent neighbors in child abuse case Eight-year telco blunder had a profound impact on three wrongly accused in Wales
Cybersecurity Month Researchers intercept unencrypted satellite traffic from space blabbermouths University team picks up voice calls, texts, and corporate data from orbit with off-the-shelf kit
Networks Cisco’s new router unites disparate datacenters into AI training behemoths With enough routers, Switchzilla says it can link bit barns 1,000 km apart and scale fabrics beyond 3 exabits per second
Networks EchoStar secures rights to spectrum it plans to sell to SpaceX Musk space biz: 'Anyone else that wants to use the spectrum must coordinate with us first'
Networks One of TikTok’s network boffins says it causes ‘massive data wastage’ China-funded research suggests video app's new American operators might byte off 40 percent more traffic than they can chew
Networks Sky plans to ditch up to 500 staff in the Technology Group Insiders say AI trials involving 'critical network services' underway and some engineering roles being moved to India
Networks Bharti big shots storm BT boardroom after £3.6B raid Sign 'relationship agreement' as Bharti Mittal and Vittal take non-exec directorships
AI + ML AI chip startup d-Matrix aspires to rack scale with JetStream I/O cards Who needs HBM when you can juggle SRAM speed and LPDDR bulk across racks
Networks Huawei counts cost of Western bans as UK business withers Brit limb books just £188M in revenue – down 85% since 2019
Networks Alibaba Cloud reveals its uptime and efficiency secrets developed by in-house network boffins eBPF, shared SmartNICs, and smart scheduling have improved reliability and cut costs
Networks Microsoft-backed boffins show mega speed boost with hollow-core fiber Could dramatically reduce latency between datacenters and on mobile nets
Columnists Techie fooled a panicked daemon and manipulated time itself to get servers in sync Network Time Protocol sometimes needs help from a temporal cops
Cyber-crime SK Telecom walloped with $97M fine after schoolkid security blunders let attackers run riot Regulator points to lack of 'basic access controls' between internet-facing systems, internal network
Cloud Infrastructure Month Solo.io boss: I was wrong, I made mistakes – and that made me a better CEO Idit Levine on going from startup to a billion-dollar valuation
Networks BGP’s security problems are notorious. Attempts to fix that are a work in progress Securing internet infrastructure remains a challenging endeavour
Networks China cut itself off from the global internet for an hour on Wednesday Great Firewall took out all traffic to port 443 at a time Beijing didn't have an obvious need to keep its netizens in the dark
Networks Beeline and ZTE advance Kazakhstan's digital future with Giga City 2.0 ZTE and Beeline Kazakhstan unveiled Giga City 2.0 – a transformative initiative marking a new era of AI-driven innovation and sustainable connectivity
Research Boffins say tool can sniff 5G traffic, launch 'attacks' without using rogue base stations Sni5Gect research crew targets sweet spot during device / network handshake pause
Security Lock down your critical infrastructure, CISA begs admins The agency offered some tips for operational technology environments, where attacks are rising
Networks Hungry hyperscalers boosted Cisco's AI sales by a cool billion bucks Big Tech is spending vastly more on AI infrastructure but Switchzilla thinks its piece of the pie will be fat and juicy
Networks How fixed wireless access can bridge the digital divide wherever you are Wireless reaches the parts fiber can’t
Systems Confirmed: PCIe 8.0 will double version 7.0’s speed and reach 256.0 GT/s A new connector may be on the cards, too
Cloud Infrastructure Month The plan to make all networks optical is about to take two big steps forward
Cloud Infrastructure Month Broadcom’s Jericho4 ASICs just opened the door to multi-datacenter AI training
Networks Internet exchange points are ignored, vulnerable, and absent from infrastructure protection plans
Datacenter Networking Nexus How Broadcom is quietly plotting a takeover of the AI infrastructure market
Networks AFRINIC election annulled after ICANN writes angry letter to African regional internet registry
Datacenter Networking Nexus Rack-scale networks are the new hotness for massive AI training and inference workloads
Datacenter Networking Nexus HPE Aruba boasts that when network problems come along, its AI will whip them into shape
Networks Huawei chair says the future of comms is fiber-to-the-room, which China has and the rest of us don’t
Virtualization Broadcom sends VMware to record revenue, margins, as most big customers sign for private cloud bundles
Bootnotes Hulk smash Musk and Zuck! Actor Mark Ruffalo and non-billionaire pals back network tech underpinning Bluesky
Black Hat and DEF CON What a glimpse inside the Black Hat NOC reveals about infosec pros' security habits
Networks Huawei Cloud built a network monitor so sensitive it spotted the impact of a single faulty chip
Networks Microsoft wants fatter pipes between its AI datacenters, asks Lumen to make light work of it
