Networking

Special feature The Rise of Industrial IoT Infrastructure around the world is being linked together via sensors, machine learning and analytics. We examine the rise of the digital twin, the new leaders in industrial IoT (IIoT) and case studies that highlight the lessons learned from production IIoT deployments. Read More Honeywell and Verizon are teaming […] More

The US Justice Department has filed two lawsuits against five US-based VoIP ‘gateway carriers’ and their owners for operating robocall services that were allegedly used to defraud American consumers with calls that mostly originated from India.  The lawsuits mark another front in US government efforts to stem the flood of robocalls that consumers face. The […] More

Special feature How 5G Will Transform Business 5G will be popularized via telecom carriers and the marketing of wire-cutting services, but the biggest impact and returns will come from connecting the Internet of things, edge computing and analytics infrastructure with minimal latency. Read More AT&T’s fourth quarter earnings topped expectations as the company added 229,000 […] More

Screenshot: Chris Duckett/ZDNet Users of TPG and its other brands such as iiNet were impacted by an outage that began at around 1:00 pm AEDT on Wednesday. According to a network status update on iiNet’s site, the impacted area was listed as “Australia”. To get around the outage, iiNet recommended users set their DNS to […] More

Netgear hit the ground running with its new range of Nighthawk routers last year, making it one of the first manufacturers to adopt the new WiFi 6 standard (a.k.a. 802.11ax). The company has now extended WiFi 6 support to its Orbi range of mesh networking systems. Like most of the Orbi range, the new Orbi […] More

Security experts have published a report today warning that the new and fast-rising LoRaWAN technology is vulnerable to cyberattacks and misconfigurations, despite claims of improved security rooted in the protocol’s use of two layers of encryption. LoRaWAN stands for “Long Range Wide Area Network.” It is a radio-based technology that works on top of the […] More

In the face of mounting criticism towards the National Broadband Network (NBN) for overbuilding existing enterprise networks, the government-owned broadband wholesaler has released a consultation paper to discuss how it could procure dark fibre for customers served by existing networks. “As has been noted by a number of network operators and industry commentators, in certain […] More

Image: NBN Vocus has continued its fight to get the National Broadband Network (NBN) to stick to what it was created for: Being a broadband wholesaler, and avoid entering into contracts with end-users. Writing in a submission to the inquiry into the business case for the NBN and the experiences of small businesses by the […] More