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    Alibaba to invest $28B in cloud over three years

    Alibaba has unveiled plans to invest 200 billion yuan ($28 billion) in its cloud business over the next three years, focusing on infrastructure development including servers, chips, network, and operating system. It also will deploy its proprietary technologies in its data centres “in the coming years”. The Chinese tech giant said in a statement Monday […] More

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    Australian NBN peak total upstream traffic barely lifts over 1Tbps

    Peak upstream throughput on NBN Image: NBN Whereas the downstream traffic profile on Australia’s National Broadband Network has retained an identifiable evening busy period, for the upstream profile, it is much less so. In stats released on Friday, NBN said peak upstream throughput across the three time periods it measures — business hours from 8am […] More

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    NBN stumps up for AU$150 million COVID-19 relief fund

    The company responsible for deploying the National Broadband Network (NBN) across Australia announced on Friday it had created a AU$150 million relief fund for low-income households with children at school and struggling small and medium-sized businesses. The package will comprise of three parts valued at AU$50 million each: One part is aimed at getting school-aged […] More

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    The internet is hanging in there despite the coronavirus

    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

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    Coronavirus: Cisco wanted to delay patch for critical flaw in phone used by doctors

    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

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    StarHub to be investigated for two service disruptions lasting hours

    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

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    Hospitals must secure vital backend networks before it's too late

    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