In research presented at the 10th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics March 12-15, scientists wanted to identify how to compress network traffic as much as possible without losing the ability to detect and investigate malicious activity. —Army Research Laboratory Public Affairs

Prefix lengths are one aspect of this; they’re bound by common convention and current best practice, not usually by strict rules on how the underlying routing machinery must or must not work. —Stephen Strowes

In those sad cases, I can give the workshop attendees only one advice: face the reality, and figure out how badly you might fail. —Ivan Pepelnjak

The European Commission’s push for a wifi-based standard for cars backed by Volkswagen took a big step forward on Wednesday after EU lawmakers endorsed wifi over 5G technology promoted by BMW and Qualcomm. —Foo Yun Chee

AIOps (artificial intelligence for IT operations), is a relatively new industry term that is increasingly being associated with a new breed of IT management vendors. —João Marques Lima

Ask 10 network engineers to design a network and you’ll most likely get 10 different designs each as intricate as their experience. —Quincy Liao

But today’s centralized model is starting to yield to a much more distributed infrastructure that is being driven by a set of applications that must consume and process data where is generated. —Michael Feldman

I was surprised when I learned last week that Amazon had filed an application for a 3,236-satellite constellation of low-earth orbit Internet service satellites — Project Kuiper. —Larry Press

In case you had any doubts, 802.11ax is NOT a switch.1 But the answer to why that is takes some explanation. —Tom Hollingsworth

In a research paper, dubbed DragonBlood, published today, researchers detailed two types of design flaws in WPA3—first leads to downgrade attacks and second to side-channel leaks. —Swati Khandelwal