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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
In its first major product announcement since aquiring NGINX last year, F5 Networks on Monday announced NGINX Controller 3.0, a cloud-native application delivery product. NGINX Controller brings together a broad set of app services — such as load balancing, API management, analytics and service mesh — to consolidate DevOps tools and speed up application deployments. […] More
Mosquitoes aren’t just a nuisance. Along with their itchy bites, they spread serious diseases, like malaria, dengue or zika, which, as Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has pointed out, kill more people every day than sharks have managed to do in an entire century. Artificial Intelligence A Yale report released last year also suggests that climate […] More
Singaporean telcos StarHub and M1 have signed an exclusive agreement to submit a joint bid for a 5G licence. Industry regulator Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) announced in October that two 5G licences were up for grabs that would enable telcos to run localised 5G services on existing 4G networks. The licences will provide the […] More
