Networking

(Image: Chris Duckett/ZDNet) The company responsible for deploying the National Broadband Network across Australia is leaving multiple thousands of premises behind in its rollout, Telstra has said. Writing in a submission to the ACCC’s NBN wholesale service standards inquiry, which kicked off at the end of 2017, Australia’s incumbent telco ...

Image: Huawei Three months after the United States handed over an extension to Huawei, the Department of Commerce has given another temporary license to the Chinese telecommunications equipment giant. “The Temporary General License extension will allow carriers to continue to service customers in some of the most remote areas of ...

Intel to Windows 10 users: You have patches for 19 severe flaws, use them! Update Intel Windows graphics drivers, and stop using Intel Matrix Storage Manager and USB 3.0 Creator Utility. Chip giant Intel has issued an alert over 13 security bugs in its version of the baseboard management controller ...

As organizations adopt multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategies, networks are becoming more complex. Enterprise network managing teams typically rely on multiple tools to monitor and troubleshoot their networks, and they spend a substantial amount of time managing problems.  To address this challenge, Google Cloud on Wednesday is announcing the Network ...

Gigabit-capable broadband for the entire UK by 2025? Easier said than done, claim experts The government pledged to spend £5 billion on supporting gigabit-capable broadband. But money isn’t the only problem that needs to be tackled. In one of the boldest moves in the upcoming UK election so far, the ...

Image: Chris Duckett/ZDNet When it comes to artificial constructs, the combination of the Australia Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and National Broadband Network (NBN) is an absolute world-beater. At the heart of NBN is the loathed connectivity virtual circuit (CVC) pricing structure, which telcos have bashed since its inception. Thanks ...

Top ways to manage cloud complexity Tonya Hall speak with David Linthicum, chief cloud strategy officer at Deloitte Consulting, to learn exactly what cloud complexity is, the threats surrounding it, and what companies can do to implement best cloud complexity practices. It is not easy measuring public cloud performance. I ...

SpaceX to launch space internet satellites Falcon 9 is getting ready to take its first two Starlink internet satellites into orbit this Wednesday. Read more: http://zd.net/2BvqpA5 Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Monday launched 60 more Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit, bringing the company’s Starlink satellite broadband internet service closer to ...

The latest installment of the broadband speed-monitoring report by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has landed, and along with it, Optus has taken the speed crown from TPG. In the report, only three ISPs were able to increase the bandwidth percentage delivered during busy periods compared to the ...

Image: Juan R Velasco, Getty Images/iStockphoto The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has warned it is set to get the nation’s ISPs to block offshore gambling sites that are in violation of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001. “The ability to have ISPs block illegal websites will be a valuable ...