Networking

The US now has 31,000 dead from the coronavirus. There are also 22 million unemployed, and the Small Business Administration (SBA) Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan program is out of money. But, against the constant darkness of bad news, there is one shining point of good news: The internet keeps going and going and going. […] More

Cisco has gone ahead and disclosed a critical flaw in a range of its internet protocol (IP) phones. However, it had originally wanted to break from its own 90-day disclosure policy due to “extenuating circumstances” created by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.  Like Google, Cisco’s policy is to publicly disclose security bugs found in its own […] More

StarHub is being investigated for two broadband service disruptions that lasted hours on Wednesday and during a time when many of its customers are working from home amidst a COVID-19 lockdown in Singapore. The country’s industry regulator says it has begun reviewing the incident and will mete out penalties if the telco is found to […] More

Hospitals rely on wired and wireless networks to provide the backbone of mission-critical medical resources like smartbeds, monitors, EMRs, smart tablets, and telehealth. That backbone is being tested in ways it never has before, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. Medical providers and hospitals are being forced to rapidly redesign systems to respond to the […] More

Samsung announced on Tuesday that it had pushed a total of 8.5Gbps to a pair of mobile phones under lab conditions. The test used 800MHz of millimetre wave (mmWave) spectrum and carrier aggregations with MU-MIMO (multi-user multiple-input multiple-output) to deliver approximately 4.3Gbps to each of the devices. Samsung said the test showed mmWave was capable […] More

Like many large, well-established companies, Verizon at the start of this year had a business continuity and disaster recovery (BD/CR) plan in place that could see it through just about any kind of calamity.  “Our company’s been around for quite a long time, so we’ve seen the SARS epidemic, H1N1, MERS, we were around for […] More

Cisco announced Tuesday that it’s launching a $2.5 billion financial relief program to help its customers and partners mitigate the economic challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The new financial program — offered through Cisco Capital, the vendor financing business within Cisco — features a 90-day payment holiday that allows customers to defer 95% of […] More

With Teams video usage exploding across the world because of the COVID-19 coronavirus lockdown, Microsoft has decided to accelerate the rollout of some much-needed features to help remote workers and schools hold better video calls. Microsoft has responded to calls from Microsoft Teams users who want to see more than just four participants on the […] More