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Slack engineers have revealed what went wrong on May 12, when Slack went down for several hours amid mass teleworking during the Covid-19 pandemic. Slack has now published a detailed technical review of the outage as well as an account of its incident response team, which was caught off guard by the outage. Both posts […] More
Image: ACCC The relationship between a user’s physical location and that of the servers used for their video conferencing service of choice is, unsurprisingly, the key to low latency and a better experience, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said. Using data collected during May, the SamKnows boxes used for NBN speed monitoring undertook […] More
The 2,700km subsea cable from Japan to Guam that forms the northern section of the Japan-Guam-Australia cable system has been declared ready for service by NEC and RTI. JGA North is a private cable built by NEC, with RTI being its sole investor. It also received funding from Japan ICT Fund and NEC Capital Solutions. […] More
Image: NBN The company responsible for deploying the National Broadband Network (NBN) across Australia has launched a satellite backup service for business services. Much like how residential customers are offered an NBN modem with 4G backup, this service functions in much the same way, except it involves the installation of a satellite dish and associated […] More
Mobile operators in Asia-Pacific are expected to spend more than $400 billion on their networks between 2020 and 2025, with $331 billion on 5G deployments. However, the number of 5G connections will be lower than previously projected due to the global pandemic. The region is one of the world’s fastest-growing and accounts for more than […] More
Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Communication (FKIE) has carried out a study involving 127 home routers from seven brands to check for the presence of known security vulnerabilities in the latest firmware. The results are appalling. The FKIE study found that 46 routers hadn’t got a single security update within the past year and that many […] More
The company responsible for rolling out the National Broadband Network across Australia has said it has 109,000 premises leftover following the company hitting the fiscal year 2020 build target that it set. NBN previously said it would have 100,000 premises left unconnected at the end of its build phase due to needing “bespoke” connections that […] More
Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) now gives your devices and network a security score that tells admins the health of their environment based on how it’s configured. A high score means the collective security configuration is in a good state across applications, operating systems, network, accounts, and security controls. Windows 10 Microsoft calls the […] More
