Comcast is embarking on an SD-WAN journey using Versa Networks to provide for their enterprise customers. They announced their SD-WAN beta for mid-market and enterprise customers at Interop ITX. "Our…
Aryaka State of the WAN Report 2017
Aryaka released their State of the WAN report for 2017 today. This is a report that uses data gathered from over 5000 locations in 63 countries, and reports on the…
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…
Why encryption with a master-key is no security at all..
The FBI wants an 'adult conversation' about encryption, according to Director James Comey, reports AP. Whilst the conversation is a good idea, and we should all be able to agree…
Further infinite musings on monkeys (1 of ?)
When Émile Borel first wrote about his singes dactylographes as a thought experiment about thermodynamics for his article in 1913 titled "Mécanique Statistique et Irréversibilité", little did he know he'd…
Yahoo! strikes a long awaited deal with Verizon
So today Verizon has ended the years of speculation about where next for Yahoo! , acquiring it for $4.8bn. Yahoo! was once an organiser of the Internet, presenting curated feeds…
Microsoft buys LinkedIn for the data?
In an unusual move, Microsoft has announced that it will acquire LinkedIn. The deal announced yesterday (13 June 2016) for $26.2bn. LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner posted the update to his…