Arctic Fibre is planning a new 24Tb/s cable network that will connect Tokyo in Japan and Europe, via the Americas. This cable aims to shave off 24 milliseconds of latency…
Lenovo completes acquisition of Motorola from Google.
Lenovo issued a press-release yesterday to confirm that they have acquired Motorola Mobility from Google . Motorola Mobility was the handset business created when Motorola split in early 2011, before…
LinkedIn now available on IPv6
A blog post from the LinkedIn engineering page announces that they've permanently enabled IPv6 on their infrastructure. I am guessing they took a phased approach, with services migrated to IPv6…
NEC to construct SEA-US cable system
Hawaiian Telcom announces that it has partnered with NEC, and others, to deliver a 20Tb/s 15,000km long cable system. This will link the continental US to Hawaii, and then onwards…
RFC7169: The NSA (No Secrecy Afforded) Certificate Extension
In a move to counteract some of the recent security concerns on organisations being compelled to relinquish keys to national intelligence agencies, an RFC has been raised to provide an…
RFC7168: The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances (HTCPCP-TEA)
A update has been published to the RFC2324: Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP), to allow for an expansion to cover the use of the protocol to include Tea…