IBM and Cisco are working together on the Internet of Things. Their latest collaboration is on the use of Edge Analytics. (IBM's announcement, on partnering with Cisco, and Cisco's covering…
Amazon imports cloud data with Snowball
In 2009, Amazon created a service which allowed you send them your own hard disk, and have the data from it imported into their cloud. Snowball, the updated service Amazon…
Three Bottlenecks of WAN – Bandwidth, Latency and Cost
There are three bottlenecks to Wide Area Networks (WANs) that don't exist in other environments, and these are Bandwidth, Latency and Cost. (And in true three pronged problem fashion, you…
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…
Vodafone and O2 create Cornerstone for shared infrastructure
Vodafone and Telefonica's O2 have done the deed and started the process of merging their mobile telecoms infrastructure, in a similar fashion to the merged EE and Three infrastructure deal…
Bufferbloat – or why you need intelligent edge control of flows
As part of an investigation into several other things, my Internet research dredged up some work by Jim Gettys on Bufferbloat, which was related closely enough to my intended target…
End-of-Life: Ipanema platforms (July 2011)
Ipanema has announced that some of their hardware platforms are End-of-Life. This is in addition to the previous End-Of-Life announcement on July 31 2009. The End-Of-Life brochure available on their…