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No IPv6 support for you, sonny
ISPs have been worried to learn that BT's ongoing multibillion pound "21CN" network upgrade won't offer native support for IPv6, the networking protocol that it's planned will form the bedrock of a rapidly expanding 21st century internet.…
Save those air miles
Video conferencing suppliers HP and Tandberg have got together to provide a one-stop video-conferencing shop.…
InfiniBand feels knock-on effect
InfiniBand supplier Voltaire expects sharply lower third quarter 2008 revenues and a net loss for the period, due to delays on two multi-million dollar orders from financial institutions.…
'The era of hyperconnectivity is upon us'
The US government is funding research into using LED lighting as data network access points. Room or street lamps would link with devices using visible light, carrying data beyond over existing power lines.…
'It's like putting an access hub in the car park'
An item of networking kit bought from eBay for just 99p ($1.79) gave privileged access to an internal network at an English county council.…
Consonantal drift?
The lower case letter 't' was briefly removed from the home page of Cisco's website on Thursday morning.…
If 'Steelie' Neelie gets her way
European Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes is proposing a radical shake up of telco competition in Europe which she hopes will stimulate aggressive deployment of fibre to the home across Europe - what the Commission calls Next Generation Access (NGA).…
Patches for the masses
Cisco has posted a bumper crop of 12 security advisories covering flaws in its IOS software and related networking kit.…
Meet without meeting
Cisco is offering a new collaboration portfolio and offering to whup IBM and Microsoft's collaborative asses with a software-as-a-service WebEx-based offering.…
Downturn and delays skewer Q3 revenues
It’s back to the future at Nortel, with the company forced to tell investors it was scaling back its third forecasts amid a “sustained and expanding economic downturn”.…
Standards bodies far behind the WLAN adoption curve
The wireless industry changes at the speed of light and so do the attitudes of its customers. Five years ago, amid the intense nervousness of enterprises about adopting pre-standard fast Wi-Fi standards or insecure - Wi-Fi at all - who would have predicted the carefree abandonment with which corporates are now embracing pre-standard 802.11n?…
Geeks go Greek
Researchers have harnessed the awesome power of grid computing to answer one of the great mysteries facing mankind: what exactly does an epigonion sound like?…
Ethernet patent skirmish
Intel has filed a lawsuit against Negotiated Data Solutions, LLC (N-Data) in a royalties dispute about the industry standard for Ethernet computer networking.…
Print not dead, but tombstone prepared
Amazon's Kindle e-book reader will sell more than 380,000 in 2008, according to analysts at CitiGroup. UK retailer Waterstones agrees that e-books are the future and is putting Sony Readers into its high street stores.…
Acquires Colubris Networks
Hewlett-Packard's Procurve switching business plans to buy wireless access kit provider Colubris Networks for an undisclosed sum.…
'Levelling off' claim takes the pith
Customers are continuing to desert Orange's ADSL offerings, the firm's results revealed today.…
Battery lives should be measured in years
A new generation of low-power radio technologies is creeping into our homes, in the form of wireless light switches and remote-controlled plug sockets. But the next generation of home-automation kit is all going to communicate every which way, assuming a common language can be agreed upon.…
Could a new one swim with the big fish?
Radio technologies are sneaking into our homes - from wireless doorbells to Wi-Fi media streams - but as with any new market there's a plethora of standards vying for a slice of the home-automation pie.…
Cheap knock-offs, big profits
A hardware reseller from New York state has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for passing off cheap Chinese networking gear as genuine Cisco products.…
US buys into German firm
Siemens has finally found a buyer, or at least part-buyer, for its corporate telecoms business.…
Russo says she's pleased with progress
Alcatel-Lucent today posted a second quarter net loss of €1.1bn ($1.7bn), and announced CEO Patricia Russo and chairman Serge Tchuruk would step down by the end of 2008.…
Oyster falls down again
Updated Commuters are travelling for free on the London Underground this morning after technical problems again brought down the Oyster ticket system.…
Give yourselves a big hug
Today is Sysadmin Day - the annual celebration of all things sys.…
Buys into home networking
Cisco is paying $120m for home networking firm Pure Networks, underscoring its desire to build a consumer brand.…
City regains access to its own network
San Francisco City Council regained access to its own computer network today after Mayor Gavin Newsom convinced network administrator Terry Childs to give them the passwords.…
Playing with the big boys now
Brocade is to acquire Foundry Networks for $3bn in cash and stock. The storage networking vendor has secured a $1.5bn debt facility from Bank of America and Morgan Stanley to grease the purchase.…
Flight into terror tedium
An air traffic control fault that brought Dublin airport to its knees last week has been traced to an intermittently flakey network card.…
TransferJet Consortium is go
Sony has signed up some friends to support its short-range radio protocol, TransferJet, as members of the new TransferJet Consortium, but has stopped short of calling the proprietary protocol a standard.…
Like the crash (before this one) never happened
Cisco has been showing journalists its vision of the future, which bears a remarkable resemblance to the past. It's somewhere around 1998 by our reckoning, only this time in high definition.…
Executive round table constructed by 2013
Cisco's next boss won't reign on high like it's current chief executive John Chambers if John Chambers has anything to say about it.…
Now playing - Acronym Wars: The Convergence Brutality
Clashing acronym disarray has hit the networking scene with Brocade's recent claim that vendors won't rally 'round Cisco's version of data center Ethernet.…
The old bait and port trick
A former city contractor from New Jersey is pleading guilty to pilfering nearly $6.9m by exploiting Cisco's part replacement program.…
Sees itself at the center of everything
Meeting the deadlines set with its original Host Bus Adapter (HBA) roadmap, Brocade today is rolling out a second-generation of devices with more respectable performance.…
More Data Center 3.0 contemplation
It's time again for Cisco's annual customer conference, Cisco Live! in Orlando. Better dust off that old Sadville avatar, networking fans, these things curiously get beamed in at Linden Lab's infamous soul dump Second Life.…
I saw a peanut stand, heard a rubber band
Security appliances from Cisco can crash when handling Jumbo Ethernet frames, the networking giant warned on Wednesday.…
Cat Burglar 5 specialists?
UK lags will be offered training in networking skills in a bid to bridge the skills shortage in IT.…
Faulty transformer blamed
A fire at The Planet's H1 data center in Houston, Texas on Saturday has taken out thousands of websites.…
The internet gets its own straight banana rule
The European Commission is pushing for 25 per cent of the bloc's government bodies, industry and public to switch to IPv6 by 2010, amid warnings that the current IPv4 protocol is fast running out of net addresses.…
Preemptive defence against rootkit exploits?
Cisco released a trio of updates on Wednesday. The advisories cover denial of service vulnerabilities in IOS Secure Shell and its Secure Control Engine software. The escalation update involves Cisco's voice engine portal software.…
Warns about depletion of IPv4 addresses
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) sounded an alarm bell yesterday over the rapid depletion of IPv4 internet addresses and gave the IPv6 protocol another push.…
Big website knickers round ankles
The unavailability of the US National Security Agency website on Thursday has been linked to misconfigured DNS (Domain Name System) servers.…
One net to rule them all - and in the darkness find them
US telco Verizon yesterday announced it had won a $678.5m, ten-year deal to tie together the many disparate networks within the vast US Department of Homeland Security (DHS).…
Series 5 begat Series 2
Adaptec is launching a new line of entry-level unified serial RAID controllers today, using the revamped design of its top-tier Series 5 gear announced in March.…
Speedier SAN selection sighted
Brocade is primed to move its 8Gb/s networking gear to a market it entered just one year ago, server bus host adapters (HBAs). It's also giving the 8Gig work-over to its Fibre Channel switch lineup.…
Beeb and ITV square up to Sky
iPlayer, the BBC's promiscuous media delivery software, will be available on Freesat within a year, the operator hopes.…
Netgear slapped with patent suit
Wi-fi co Ruckus reckons Netgear has been fitting its directional Wi-Fi technology to more routers than it ought, and has slapped the company with a patent-infringement suit.…
Pessimism pays off
Cisco hit its lowered targets for the third quarter of 2008, increasing sales by 10.4 per cent ahead of targeted growth of 10 per cent.…
Kindergarten cop, shmindergarten shmop
A federal judge in California sentenced an ex-Navy SEAL to prison today after he refused to testify against his employer, former Broadcom CEO, Henry Nicholas.…
Smaller chips and green intentions
Interop 2008 Broadcom has refreshed its lineup of Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches, bestowing them with smaller 65nm chips in time to show at Interop in Las Vegas.…
Punts server adapter that supports 1Gb and 10Gb speeds
Interop 2008 With a sweep of the Interop 2008 Las Vegas show floor, it's clear that vendors are confident that 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology is moving beyond the early adoption phase and into more storage networks and data centers.…