Virgin Media Wifi is starting to add capacity to its network, using customers SuperHub v3 routers to according to Engadget. This will use separate bandwidth provisioned to the SuperHub router…
Product Announcement: Cisco Spark Board
Billed as a break-through wireless presentation display, the Cisco Spark Board is a digital whiteboard, and a next-gen video conferencing system. As an all-in-one device, it provides everything you need to collaborate with your teams…
Researching Internet and Sub-Sea cable links
Internet and sub-sea cable routes interest me. I've recently found a couple of good visual tools to support some of my investigations and thought you might want to have a…
GTT completes Hibernia Networks acquisition
GTT have completed their acquisition of Hibernia Networks. This deal was announced last year, for $590mn. The acquisition delivers the following assets: Five subsea cables, including Hibernia Express, the lowest…
GTT to buy Hibernia Networks
GTT are to buy Hibernia Networks from Columbia Ventures Corporation for $590mn. This is made up of $515 million in cash and approximately 3.3 million shares of GTT common stock.…
Vocus buys NextGen for fibre backhaul in Australia
Australia's Vocus Communications has just completed the acquisition of NextGen's network assets. (Vocus and NextGen - Better Together). The deal is worth AU$861mn (according to ZDNet, Vocus completes AU$861m acquisition of…
Multi-Gigabit Ethernet is here – IEEE 802.11bz
In June 2015, the IEEE created a working group to bring two industry alliances together to deliver Multi-Gigabit Ethernet. Work done by the NBASE-T and MGBASE-T industry groups is brought…
What is the difference between a virtualised network and network virtualisation?
With the advent of compute virtualisation, it was necessary to extend the physical network from outside the host into the virtualised environment within the host. This is achieved with the…