Venture investment company Bain Capital are taking Thoma Bravo's Blue Coat. The deal to acquire BlueCoat is for $2.4bn cash, and will close in first half 2015. Bain is preparing…
Arctic Fibre reduces latency on route between Japan and UK – via the North Pole
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…
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…
Microsoft adds Blackberry to phone stable?
AMicrosoft having recently acquired the Nokia phone stable as platforms for Windows Phone are still rumoured to be looking at adding the Blackberry platform as well. In January of Samsung…
IBM manipulates atoms for stop motion movie
What do you do when you have a scanning tunnelling electron microscope (STM) and a lot of time? You borrow from the skills and techniques of Ray Harryhausen and create the…
Arctic Fibre partners with Quintillion for Alaskan segment
https://alaska-native-news.com/arctic-fibre-and-quintillion-join-forces-to-bring-high-speed-internet-access-to-northern-alaska-and-bering-sea-7068
Impact under acceleration
So investigating some issues for the inks company today, I come across a problem that we've seen before with Junipers WX appliances.. A site has problems transferring data across the…