130454194
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coondoggie writes:
To meet a need for faster high-end Ethernet, 800GbE has become a formal specification, but the reality on the ground is that 400GbE shipments are just ramping up, and much lower speeds are what’s in common use.Link to Original Source
130403612
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coondoggie writes:
A Cisco report on IT trends says new jobs to address changing IT needs include business translator, network guardian and network detective.Link to Original Source
130386458
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coondoggie writes:
In the face of a rapid world-wide traffic explosion from private, public and government entities requiring employees to work from home to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, some experts were concerned the bandwidth onslaught might bring the internet to its knees. All indications are that while there have been hot spots, the internet infrastructure has held its own so far – a silver lining of sorts in dreadful situation.Link to Original Source
128096656
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itwbennett writes:
Security researchers from Trustwave SpiderLabs have disclosed the first known, in the wild use of the BadUSB exploit, in which a USB dongle is 'reprogrammed so that, when inserted in a computer, it reports that it's actually a keyboard and starts sending commands that could be used to deploy malware,' writes Lucian Constantin for CSOonline. According to the researchers, such a USB device was mailed to a US company in February, packaged with the promise of a $50 gift card good for use on 'any product from the list of items presented on an USB stick.'
108143144
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coondoggie writes:
Security experts at Cisco Talos have released a report detailing what it calls the “first known case of a domain name registry organization that was compromised for cyber espionage operations.”
106732562
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coondoggie writes:
The popularity of mobile devices will continue its dramatic growth over the next four years as new technologies kick in with higher density and bandwidth...
106535710
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coondoggie writes:
Cisco said it's closed its deal to buy optical-semiconductor firm Luxtera for $660 million, bringing it the advanced optical technology customers will need for speed and throughput for future data-center and webscale networks.
104555902
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coondoggie writes:
Cisco foresees a massive buildup of IP traffic – 4.8 zettabytes per year by 2022, which is over three times the 2017 rate – lead by the increased use of IoT device traffic, video, and sheer number of new users coming onboard. The company also says there will be 4.8 billion internet users by 2022, up from 3.4 billion in 2017.
102904380
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coondoggie writes:
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has voted to go ahead with the first-ever changing of the cryptographic key that helps protect the internet’s address book – the Domain Name System (DNS). ICANN said it expects minimal user impact from the rollover but a small percentage of internet users could see problems in resolving domain names, which means they will have problems reaching their online destination.
90884787
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coondoggie writes:
NASA is looking to bolster the speed – from ten to 10,000 times — of the software on its Pleiades supercomputer and is issuing a public challenge to get the job done. The catch is that the software the space agency is looking to squeeze all of that performance out of is based on Fortran – a program that has roots back to 1954.
90748617
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coondoggie writes:
I have detailed the crazy things that the TSA has found in airline travelers checked bags over the past few years butevery once and awhile, something new and cracked turns up.
90609683
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coondoggie writes:
DARPA today said it the opened unique and massive testbed it will use as a battleground for researchers to build and test autonomous, intelligent and collaborative wireless technologies.
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90315175
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coondoggie writes:
In this era where disinformation, alternative facts and other falsehoods are the rule of the day, the researchers at DARPA are looking to build a mechanism that can glean some truth from the obfuscation.
90246599
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coondoggie writes:
Open source networking proponents have uncorked an updated routing protocol project designed to give white box, virtualized environments of all sizes fast and reliable communications.
