Networking Stories for 2012

The Future of 802.11ac 125
FCC Smooths the Path For Airlines' In-Flight Internet 93
Israel To Get Massive Countrywide Optical Upgrade 157
You're Being DDOSed — What Do You Do? Name and Shame? 336
Boeing Uses 20,000 Lbs. of Potatoes To Check Aircraft Wireless Network Signals 104
ICANN Raffle Sets gTLD Processing Order 37
DARPA Begins Work On 100Gbps Wireless Tech With 120-mile Range 83
Cisco Rumored To Be Selling Linksys 180
The State of In-Flight Wi-Fi 80
An Interactive Graph of the Certificate Authority Ecosystem 39
Seattle To Get Gigabit Fiber To the Home and Business 108
Netflix Ranks ISP Speeds 186
Samba 4.0 Released: the First Free Software Active Directory Compatible Server 343
High-Frequency Traders Use 50-Year-Old Wireless Tech 395
Nationwide Google Fiber Deployment Would Cost $140 Billion 327
UK Organization Set Up To Encourage IPv6 Adoption Closes 100
Scientists Race To Establish the First Links of a 'Quantum Internet' 82
The Countries Most Vulnerable To an Internet Shutdown 94
Least-Cost Routing Threatens Rural Phone Call Completion 205
How Some Chinese Users Bypass The Great Firewall 58
Ask Slashdot: Software For Learning About Data Transmission? 79
IPv6 Deployment Picking Up Speed 158
"Anonymous" File-Sharing Darknet Ruled Illegal By German Court 285
Google Warns Against UN Net Conference 79
Cisco To Buy Meraki For $1.2 Billion 59
CyanogenMod Domain Hijacked 143
Australia's Biggest Telco Sold Routers With Hardcoded Passwords 154
NASA DTN Protocol: How Interplanetary Internet Works 109
NASA Fires Up Experimental Space Internet For Robot Control 42
Ask Slashdot: Extreme Cable Management? 242
Welsh Scientists Radically Increase Fiber Broadband Speeds With COTS Parts 72
Kim Dotcom's Next Venture: Free Broadband To New Zealand 279
Ask Slashdot: Is Samba4 a Viable Alternative To Active Directory? 388
Facebook's Prism, Soon To Be Open Sourced, Gives Hadoop Delay Tolerance 17
Dutch DigiNotar Servers Were Fully Hacked 83
AMD Licenses 64-bit Processor Design From ARM 213
Ask Slashdot: Ideas For a Geek Remodel? 372
Cisco Pricing Undercut By $100M In Big Cal State University Network Project 220
China Telco Replaces Cisco Devices Over Security Concerns 180
The UK's 5-Minute 4G Data Cap 261
Ask Slashdot: Why Does Wireless Gear Degrade Over Time? 615
Poor SSL Implementations Leave Many Android Apps Vulnerable 141
Trans-Atlantic 8K/UHDTV Streaming With UltraGrid and Commodity PCs 58
Russian Officials Consider Ban On Wi-Fi Use For Kids 110
Take a Free Networking Class From Stanford 128
802.11ad Will Knock Your Socks Off, Says Interop Panel 174
The Coming Internet Video Crash 419
Ask Slashdot: Open Communications Set-Up For Small Office? 224
Sandia Lab Fires Up 300,000 Virtual Android Devices To Test Out Security 39
Iran Lifts Block On Gmail 46
LightSquared Wants To Share Weather-Balloon Frequencies for LTE 141
Indian Minister Says Telecom Companies Should Only Charge For Data 177
IPv6 Must Be Enabled On All US Government Sites By Sunday 179
Terabit Ethernet Is Dead, For Now 140
Ask Slashdot: Ideas and Tools To Get Around the Great Firewall? 218
Woz Applying For Australian Citizenship Because of the NBN 385
Chattanooga's Municipal Network Doubles Down On Fiber Speeds 165
6 Million Virgin Mobile Users Vulnerable To Brute-Force Attacks 80
Verizon Offers Free Tethering Because It Has To 180
Wireless Analysis With Monitor Mode On Android 49
Intel Demos 7Gpbs Wireless Docking 52
RIPE Region Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses 241
Intel Encodes Data In Flickering LEDs (and Shows Off Other Bright Ideas) 65
Samsung Expected To Sue Apple Over iPhone 5 LTE Networking 283
UK Finally Gets 4G Networking 49
More Warnings About High-Frequency Trading 500
100GbE To Slash the Cost of Producing Live Television 180
AT&T Promises To Expand LTE To More US Markets 105
Bring On the Decentralized Social Networking 238
Business Tier For Australia's NBN Brings Big Possibilities For VoIP 70
The Danger In Exempting Wireless From Net Neutrality 161
Ask Slashdot: Ad-Hoc Wireless Mesh Network For Emergency Vehicles? 200
New Flat Lens Focuses Without Distortion 202
Would You Open Your Home To a Hacker – For Free? 118
Serious Problems With USB and Ethernet On the Raspberry Pi 202
Satellite Uplinks For the Masses 49
19 Million Americans Cannot Get Broadband Access 279
IEEE Seeks Consensus on Ethernet Transfer Speed Standard 92
Project Byzantium: Zero To Ad-Hoc Mesh Network In 60 Seconds (Video) 124
Saudi Arabia Objects To Proposed .gay gTLD, Among Others 459
BBC Delivered 2.8PB On Busiest Olympics Day, Reaching 700Gb/s As Wiggo Won Gold 96
US Adoption of 10 Mbps+ Broadband Nearly Doubles In a Year 172
Content-Centric Networking & the Next Internet 153
Google Announces Plans, Pricing For Kansas City Fiber Network 263
Comcast Launches Superfast Internet To Fight FiOS 209
Reports Say Apple Is Shrinking Its Docking Connector With iPhone 5 427
Ask Slashdot: Stepping Down From an Office Server To NAS-Only? 227
The DARPA-Funded Power Strip That Will Hack Your Network 176
Could Google Fiber Save Network Neutrality? 230
Sale of IPv4 Addresses Hindering IPv6 Adoption 214
Contiki 2.6: IPv6 For Everything, Everywhere 62
The Web Is Not the Internet 412
Niagra Framework Leaves Government, Private Infrastructure Open To Hacks 40
New York Experiments With Wi-Fi From Payphones 56
Ask Slashdot: Documenting a Tangle of Network Devices? 165
DNSChanger Shut-Down Means Internet Blackout Coming For Hundreds of Thousands 264
TIME DotCom and Facebook Invest In Massive Undersea Internet Cable Project 94
AOL: Outdoor Server Huts Are the Future 146
FBI To Shut Down DNSChanger Servers Monday -- But Should It Cut Off 300k PCs? 140
Cyberoam Packet Inspection Devices Open Traffic To Third Parties 29
Cisco's Cloud Vision: Mandatory, and Killed At Their Discretion 307
Cisco Pushing 'Cloud Connect' Router Firmware, Allows Web History Tracking 351
Erlang and OpenFlow Together At Last 93
SPDY Not As Speedy As Hyped? 135
Inside Facebook Data Mining Research Group 30
Thunderbolt On Windows: Hardware and Performance Explored 177
FBI Hunt For Child Porn Thwarted By Tor 714
In Australia, Apple Fined $2.5 Million For '4G' Advertising Claims 154
After Launch Day: Taking Stock of IPv6 Adoption 244
Ask Slashdot: Enterprise-Grade Linux Networking Hardware? 140
World IPv6 Launch Day Underway 236
Samba 4 Enters Beta 170
Netflix Launches Its Own Content Delivery Network 117
Australian Company Promises Switching Hardware With Sub-130ns Latency 77
Report Says Schools Need 100Mbps Per 1,000 Users 292
Ask Slashdot: Provisioning Internet For Condo Association? 257
Ask Slashdot: Syncing Files With Remote Server While On the Road? 239
Google Applies For Dot-LOL Domain 125
AT&T Expects Data-Only Phone Plans Within 2 Years 97
German Cable ISP First To Deliver 4700Mbps Internet Connection 121
Sprint To Shut Down Nextel iDEN Network Next Year 53
Van Jacobson Denies Averting Internet Meltdown In 1980s 57
Mobile Workers Work Longer Hours 117
Groups Launch $200M Gigabit-per-second Broadband Project 46
Paul Vixie: 100,000 DSL Modems May Lose Their DNS On July 9 193
The Pirate Bay Returns, Anonymous Hater Takes Credit For DDoS 122
The Pirate Bay Suffering Global Outage From Massive DDoS Attack 203
Researcher Runs IP Network Over Xylophones 83
American Cellular Companies Clamor For Fresh Spectrum 103
West Virginia Buys $22K Routers With Stimulus, Puts Them In Small Schools 295
IEEE Approves Revision of Wireless LAN Standard 61
NY Judge Rules IP Addresses Insufficient To Identify Pirates 268
Ask Slashdot: Overhauling an Amusement Park's Multi-Zone Audio Player? 120
Global Broadband Speeds Dropped At the End of 2011 118
Ask Slashdot: Building A Server Rack Into a New Home? 402
SSL Pulse Project Finds Just 10% of SSL Sites Actually Secure 62
VeriSign Could Add 220 New Top Level Domains 116
Backdoor Found In Arcadyan-based Wi-Fi Routers 59
White Space Wireless Broadband Trial In UK Is a Success 39
IEEE Vet: Carriers Capping LTE Services To Avoid Fixed-line Cannibalization 118
All-Optical Networks: the Last Piece of the Puzzle 36
Iraq Emerges From Isolation As Telecommunications Hub 59
Netflix CEO Accuses Comcast of Not Practicing Net Neutrality 272
Apple Under Fire For Backing Off IPv6 Support 460
Iran Plans To Unplug the Internet, Launch Its Own 'Clean' Alternative 301
Ask Slashdot: Finding a Trustworthy VPN Service? 193
Ask Slashdot: Experience Handling DDoS Attacks On a Mid-Tier Site? 197
CSIRO Develops 10 Gbps Microwave Backhaul 121
42% of Worldwide Households Expected To Have Wi-Fi By 2016 91
Swedish Researchers Expose China's Tor-Blocking Tricks 73
IETF Attendees Reengineer Their Hotel's Wi-Fi Net 120
Linux 3.3: Making a Dent In Bufferbloat? 105
Akamai To Offer IPv6 To All In April 110
Huawei Claims 30Gbps Wireless 'Beyond LTE' 146
Australian Gov't Bans Huawei From National Network Bids 168
T-Mobile's Optional Censorship Falls Down 67
Austin Case Modders Take Their Exotic PCs and a Giant LAN Party to SXSW (Video) 40
Marketing Agency Uses Homeless As Wi-Fi Hotspots 267
Sony's Plan To Tighten Security and Fight Hacktivism 247
Ask Slashdot: What Is an Acceptable Broadband Latency? 396
After Complaints, AT&T Solidifies, Increases Data Limit 211
AT&T Should Be Investigated For 'Fraudulent' Data Policies, Says PK 138
Ship Anchor Damages African Undersea Cables 104
Ask Slashdot: Dealing With University Firewalls? 582
Australia's Telstra Requires Fibre Customers To Use Copper Telephone 217
Optical Memory Could Speed Up the Internet 36
Too Many Connections Weaken Networks 48
T-Mobile Announces LTE Network 75
User Successfully Sues AT&T For Throttling iPhone Data 166
Carrier Ethernet 2 Aims For Global Connectivity 44
All-IP Network Produces $100B Real Estate Windfall 229
FCC Maps the 3G Wasteland Of the Western US 173
Google Starts Running Fiber In Kansas City 118
NTT DoCoMo Asks Google To Limit Android Data Use 160
Super Wi-Fi Isn't Really Wi-Fi 145
1st 'Super Wi-Fi' Net Goes Live In North Carolina 60
Symantec Tells Customers To Stop Using pcAnywhere 149
Google's SPDY Could Be Incorporated Into Next-Gen HTTP 275
Police Investigate Offensive Wi-Fi Network Name 890
Google Fiber Work Hung Up In Kansas City 153
June 6 Is World IPv6 Day 2012: This Time For Keeps 463
Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Wireless Catch-and-Release 332
Internet Systems Consortium Seeks Wider Input For BIND 10 60
IPv6-Only Is Becoming Viable 209
DNS Provision Pulled From SOPA 232
Comcast DNSSEC Goes Live 165
Data Hogs: the Monsters Carriers Created 215
The 'Cable Guy' Now a Network Specialist 235