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…
Will the Thailand floods prompt a move to SSDs?
With ASUS announcing that it will run out of hard disks at the end of the next month , since new ones are not being produced in enough numbers to…
RIP: John McCarthy, founding father of artificial intelligence
Computing is losing a generation of legends. Following the recent deaths of Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie, today I learnt of the death of John McCarthy, founding father of artificial…
A brief history of the IBM PC, thirty years on.
30 years ago today, a new office automation device was officially launched by IBM at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York. August 12, 1981, marked the launch of the…
503: A weekend of poor internet service
This weekend has seen a few opportunities for various organisations to do better with their internet service performance. On-line coverage of sports events isn't yet quite up to the demands…
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…
Goodbye IPv4 Address Space?
So today marked an auspicious occasion in which the last 5 /8 IP addresses were handed to each of the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). This marks the last of the…
End-of-life: Juniper WX Stack architecture
Juniper Networks has announced in the last couple of days End-of Life for the WX100 devices. This effectively kills off the WX stack architecture as a side-effect. The WX-100 was…