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…
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…
SD-WAN – or should we say WAN4.0?
Is the current buzzword "SD-WAN" really new, or is it actually a progression of the WAN technologies we all know and love? Is it going to be a revolution or…
Amazon carry lots of Snowballs in their SnowMobile
Amazon have a service called AWS Snowball, but if you're importing a large dataset into the cloud, 80TB might simply not be enough. So now you can upgrade your transfers…
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…
HP Inks $1.05bn deal for Samsung’s printer business
HP Inc (the printer and consumer business) has announced a deal to acquire Samsung's printer business. (HP Acquires Samsung Printer Business) HP is looking to disrupt the $55bn copier industry…
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…
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…