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.…
BEREC produces Guidelines on Implementation of EU Net Neutrality Rules
BEREC (Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications) has produced a guideline document on the implementation of the recently enacted EU Net Neutrality rules. Adoption of the Regulation (EU) 2015/2120…
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…
RFC6921: Design Considerations for Faster-Than-Light (FTL) Communication
Recent research in to fibers that reduce latency to near the speed of light in a vacuum are leading moves to plan for networks that transmit at speeds greater than…
ExtremeTech: Researchers create fiber network that operates at 99.7% speed of light, smashes speed and latency records
ExtremeTech reports that researchers at the University of Southampton have achieved a breakthrough in reducing latency of data transmissions. The new fiber has a number of other benefits as well.…
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…
RFC5984: Increasing Throughput in IP Networks with ESP-Based Forwarding: ESPBasedForwarding
The current incremental approach to lower latency and increase capacity will soon reach the end of the road. The reason for this has been known for some time and is…