In his regular monthly spot on PING, APNIC’s Chief Scientist Geoff Huston discusses the current state of worldwide IPv6 uptake.

How does a network startup fit in, then? Consider what offsets ease and lack of risk: Money. If new network equipment can save a lot of money, or if it’s needed to support a new application or service that improves productivity or lowers overall costs a lot, then it’s worth looking into.

A quick primer on OOB networking — it is basically a network segment that is isolated from the production network or what I would call the ‘transit path’.

According to GSA, which tracks the satellite industry, 34 countries are either planning, evaluating, or testing broadband satellites. There have already been satellites launched by UK, Mexico, Japan, Papua New Guinea, the United Arab Emirates, and Timor-Leste.

We face a series of cascading failures in sectors like defense and national security that pose serious economic, geopolitical, and related dangers to the U.S.’s stability and international presence.

Carrier Ethernet refers to the use of Ethernet technology outside of Local Area Networks (LANs), specifically for long-haul, metropolitan, and Wide Area Network (WAN) applications.

One of the geniuses of the cloud – perhaps the central genius – is that a big company that would have a large IT budget, perhaps on the order of hundreds of millions of dollars per year, and that has a certain amount of expertise creates a much, much larger IT organization with billions of…

Analysis paralysis is a huge problem in IT – we “study” and “evaluate” and “keep on our radar” but then all too often have a choice and a need to act thrust upon us, and need to switch modes fast.

VMware by Broadcom has unveiled a new networking architecture that it says will improve the performance and security of distributed artificial intelligence (AI) — using AI and machine learning (ML) to do so.

Technology jobs will contribute to significant job growth in the coming years across the U.S., and recent research from online learning provider Pearson finds that high-tech skills will infiltrate many professions in the future.