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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has granted an interim authorisation for NBN and five retailers — Telstra, Optus, TPG, Vodafone, and Vocus — to create a working group to handle network congestion and coordinate financial support during the coronavirus pandemic. The group was formed over the congestion issue following a request from the […] More
Palo Alto Networks said on Tuesday that it plans to acquire software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) provider CloudGenix for $420 million. CloudGenix competes with Cisco and other incumbents in the SD-WAN space, targeting large enterprises that need to manage network traffic at branch offices. Featured stories With the acquisition, Palo Alto Networks said it plans to […] More
Microsoft has released an emergency update to fix a Windows 10 bug that has been causing internet connectivity issues for users and preventing some Office 365 setups from reaching the cloud. The company confirmed the internet connectivity bug on Thursday, which affected PCs and servers running all supported versions of Windows 10 devices that are […] More
BEREC, the European Union’s telecommunication regulation agency, said today that no major internet congestion issues have occurred since the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. The agency said that while the overall traffic on fixed and mobile networks has significantly increased, no major downtime was recorded across Europe caused by bandwidth exhaustion incidents. The agency’s […] More
All major network providers in the UK have agreed to implement a set of common measures designed to support and protect customers’ access to the internet in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. BT, EE and OpenReach, Virgin Media, O2, Vodafone, Sky, TalkTalk, Three, Hyperoptic, Gigaclear and KCOM have all committed to new standards, as […] More
A week after launching 34 satellites, space broadband contender OneWeb on Friday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a New York court after funding talks with its main investor Softbank collapsed due to coronavirus COVID-19 market turbulence. According to the Financial Times, the company on Friday cut most of its 500 employees after failing to […] More
Well, wasn’t that fun? For about two hours, Google and its main services, such as Gmail, Google Docs, and YouTube were down for US East coast users. So, what happened? It was not, as many feared, because Google had faltered under the load of coronavirus traffic. Urs Hölzle, technical infrastructure at Google Cloud senior vice […] More
As if working from home wasn’t challenging enough, Microsoft has now warned that a Windows 10 bug is preventing Office 365, Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and other critical work apps from reaching the internet. The Windows 10 connectivity bug couldn’t come at a worse time and is probably causing real pain for the millions of employees […] More
