Networking

SpaceX hoped to make its 50th landing, but the booster missed the mark on its droneship. More

Image: NBN Vocus announced on Monday that it had picked up a four-year AU$15.7 million contract to provide the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) with network connectivity from its own fibre footprint and NBN’s business satellite services. The telco said the new contract contained all of its existing connectivity and picks up “the majority” of […] More

Got a Wi-Fi network that you share with others? Perhaps at home, or at the office or other workplace? Here’s a way to make it quick and simple for people to connect without having to enter a bewildering string of alphanumeric characters. How? Create a scannable QR code. Must read: Don’t buy these Apple products: February […] More

The last 12 months have given the world a taster of 5G; 2020 is when things are getting real, according to network company Ericsson. It predicts that, by the end of 2020, there will be somewhere around 100 million 5G subscribers, and from there, the technology will only scale up: by 2025, it predicts there will […] More

Arista Networks on Thursday announced that it has acquired Big Switch Networks, a network monitoring and software-defined networking (SDN) pioneer, to give customers better visibility into their cloud area networks. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Arista also reported solid fourth quarter financial results in spite of losing some major business from a […] More

Broadcom is launching a new Wi-Fi combo processor that is designed to deliver more than 2 Gbps speeds with better battery life by extending Wi-Fi 6 to support the 6 GHz spectrum band. The processor, the BCM4389, is the first Wi-Fi 6E processor that will utilize the soon-to-be-operational 6 GHz band with wider channel bandwidth. […] More

Cisco managed to beat second quarter market expectations on Wednesday, with Q2 results driven by software and subscription growth. However, its product revenue was down due to declines in infrastructure and application sales.  Second quarter non-GAAP net income came to $3.3 billion, or 77 cents per share. Total revenue was $12 billion, down 4 percent […] More

Cloud storage is all the rage, but sometimes you need local storage that’s fast and allows for the handling of many gigabytes of data. This is where having a NAS — Network Attached Storage — drive really comes into its own. One of my requirements for local storage is redundancy of drives, which means, at […] More