Worth Reading: Net Neutrality May Finally Be Dead—Good Riddance 21 January 2025 Last week, a federal appellate court likely put to rest the argument over FCC-imposed common-carrier rules. It was a quiet death: protesters didn’t mark the occasion, politicians have gone silent, and the media have moved on—for the simple reason that their cause was spurious, both in law and in practice. Worth Reading: Optical power balancing in DWDM 19 December 2024 This topic primarily targets DWDM network designers and planners who must estimate optical power levels at various input and output points across the entire link, segment, or network. These estimates are crucial before authorizing deployment, installation, or commissioning teams to validate them in the field. Worth Reading: Zeros Are Heroes–NSEC3 Parameter Settings in the Wild 19 December 2024 DNSSEC relies on public-key cryptography to add integrity and authentication to plain DNS. When done in offline mode, resource record sets are signed so that signatures can be returned along with responses. Worth Reading: Schrödinger’s IPv6 Cat 18 December 2024 IPv6, a protocol developed in the late 1990s to address the anticipated Internet address exhaustion crisis, exists in a paradoxical state. Worth Reading: Last Year Saw the Worst Telecom Hack in Our Nation’s History 18 December 2024 For over a year Chinese state-backed hacking group, Salt Typhoon (also known as Earth Estries, FamousSparrow, GhostEmperor, and UNC2286) has been inside eight of the largest telecommunications’ networks in the U.S., including AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Lumen. Worth Reading: O-Band Optics 17 December 2024 O-band optics lower the power consumption and complexity of optical modules for links ranging from two to 20 kilometers. Worth Reading: [Podcast] Post-Quantum Cryptography 17 December 2024 Standards agencies like NIST are pushing to develop algorithms that are both efficient on modern hardware and resistant to the potential threats posed by Shor’s Algorithm in future quantum computers. Worth Reading: Advancing the Speed of Wireless 16 December 2024 Scientists at University College London recently achieved a speed on a wireless link of 938 Gbps. That’s over 4,000 times faster than the current average speed being delivered by T-Mobile, the current fastest cellular provider in the U.S. Worth Reading: Traceroute is real – I should know, I was there 16 December 2024 A few weeks ago I stumbled onto an article titled “Traceroute isn’t real,” which was reasonably entertaining while also not quite right in places. Worth Reading: Strengthening AI Accountability Through Better Third Party Evaluations 12 December 2024 While these AI systems offer significant benefits, they also pose serious risks, like producing non-consensual intimate imagery, facilitating production of bioweapons, and contributing to biased decisions. « Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 … 31 Next »