Qualcomm has firmly rebuffed Broadcom's bid for them. (Broadcom plans $103bn takeover of Qualcomm.) In a strongly worded press-release Qualcomm's Board of Directors have rejected Broadcom's unsolicited bid, and stood…
All 500 top supercomputers run Linux
The Top500 list regularly polls the organisations that run supercomputers creating a list of largest, fastest, most efficient and so on. The 50th release of the Top500 list was released yesterday.…
Dropbox deploys IPv6 at the edge
Dropbox's blog has a post from Haowei Yuan and colleagues, about engineering the Dropbox network to support IPv6 at the edge. Dropbox is serving about 15% of their requests via…
Qualcomm ships Centriq 2400 ARM server processor
Qualcomm has announced that its new ARM-based server chip is available for commercial shipment. The Centriq 2400 is an ARMv8 64 bit CPU, with 48 cores running at upto 2.6Ghz.…
BT enhances Dynamic Network Services with Cisco ENCS
A short while ago, we posted about BT's Dynamic Network Services plans. BT has now taken the next step, launching the Cisco ENCS platform as the delivery point for its Connect Services…
South Atlantic submarine cable links USA and India
An agreement between Seaborn Networks and IOX Cable will see a new cable route established between the USA and India. (Seaborn Networks and IOX Cable Ltd to Provide First Subsea…
Broadcom plans $103bn takeover of Qualcomm
Having announced a move of their headquarters to the US, Broadcom is now targeting another chipmaker for a takeover. Even with the Brocade deal stuck in CIFUS negotiations, they are…
Meraki connects to Azure cloud
Cisco's Meraki division has extended their vMX100 virtual MX gateway to add Microsoft Azure instances. The new version builds on the previous Amazon AWS only deployment (see Meraki introduces virtual MX…