Passive optical network (PON) technology is enjoying great success in terms of deployment by major providers around the world, and comms tech provider Nokia has announced two milestone deployments, with Google Fiber deploying its 25G PON offering in the US to enhance its existing fibre network and deliver a new 20Gbps broadband service to customers … Leer más
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has set its sights on building an independent, sovereign cloud platform to meet the data residency and regulatory needs of its European customers, with the first region set to open in Germany. The public cloud giant said the AWS European Sovereign Cloud offering will help its public sector customers, and those … Leer más
With national administrations and telecoms industry members gathering in a matter of weeks to review and update the global use of radio frequencies, leading operator Vodafone has reiterated its call for the upper 6GHz spectrum band to be allocated to international mobile telecommunications (IMT) without overly restrictive conditions to ensure a strong 5G mobile infrastructure … Leer más
Time may be running short for users of Citrix’s NetScaler Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and NetScaler Gateway products who have not yet patched against two recently disclosed vulnerabilities to do so, after cyber researchers started to see elevated levels of activity targeting them. Disclosed on 10 October, and possibly exploited as long ago as August, … Leer más
After a series of investments in subsea cables, and now boasting a single seamless network spanning over 1,400km that connects the Gulf region to the Middle East and the rest of the world, leading Bahrain operator Batelco has announced the launch of Bwave, a wavelength service of 400G capacity high-speed connectivity, quadrupling its current service … Leer más
The rate of cyber fraud dropped slightly over the first six months of 2023, falling 2% compared to the same period in 2022, but even so criminals and fraudsters still managed to steal approximately £580m via both authorised and unauthorised fraud during the period, according to UK Finance’s latest half-yearly report. At the same time, … Leer más
Aiming to tap into the opportunities presented by increasingly important part of the 5G industry, Nokia has announced a new Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) outdoor receiver and indoor gateway with Wi-Fi 7, designed to conserve radio capacity and improve service coverage. Nokia said studies indicated that operators can save as much as 60% of potentially … Leer más
Credential management software supplier 1Password has disclosed it has been caught up in the same breach of the tech support systems of fellow identity and access management (IAM) specialist Okta that impacted BeyondTrust and Cloudflare. 1Password chief technology officer (CTO) Pedro Canahuati said the firm detected suspicious activity on the Okta tenant it uses to … Leer más
Microsoft has posted revenue of $56.5bn, up 13% for the quarter ended September 30, 2023, partially driven by demand for its AI-infused (artificial intelligence) products and the Azure public cloud. CFO Amy Hood said the company’s Azure cloud platform had experienced higher than expected AI consumption, which contributed to revenue growth in Azure. The company … Leer más
Working at a company that is a giant of the tech sector has many advantages, but for Arvind Jain, the CEO of Glean, it also helps to work at much smaller organisations. Glean positions itself as the Google of enterprise knowledge and discovery. In fact, it was founded in 2019 by a number of Google … Leer más