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Internet infrastructure
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February 28, 2023
28
Feb'23
MWC 2023: ICT infrastructure investment to drive Industry 4.0
Study reveals how digital economy will account for more than half of global GDP by end of 2023 and how growth of 5G and intergenerational evolution of connectivity technology will increase global economic benefits by approximately 15%
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February 23, 2023
23
Feb'23
Ciena claims industry first with 1.6 Tbps coherent optic service
WaveLogic 6 Extreme and WaveLogic 6 Nano products designed to meet critical network provider capacity and power efficiency needs
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February 20, 2023
20
Feb'23
Full-fibre internet to reach half of UK homes by March 2023
Ofcom data shows full-fibre deployment in the UK has maintained pace over the past 12 months and is set to reach a major tipping point in the next few weeks
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February 20, 2023
20
Feb'23
App-based Zopa bank buys BNPL fintech
App-based Zopa bank is adding a buy now, pay layer platform to its technology stack through its first acquisition
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February 16, 2023
16
Feb'23
Virgin Media O2 makes deal for small business broadband customers
Leading UK operator announces faster upload speeds for its small business broadband services, with customers now able to access 10:1 download to upload speed ratio across all Voom packages
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February 15, 2023
15
Feb'23
UK saw fintech investment collapse in 2022, but is still a world leader
Fintech investment in the UK sees steep drop, but the country was still a top destination for capital
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February 14, 2023
14
Feb'23
UAE central bank programme to accelerate digital transformation
The United Arab Emirates government launches programme to accelerate the digital transformation of the country’s finance sector
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February 09, 2023
09
Feb'23
Twitter CEO Elon Musk pauses datacentre downsizing push in wake of outage
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has called a temporary halt to the company’s push to cut costs by downsizing its infrastructure expenditure after an outage left users around the world unable to post tweets
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February 09, 2023
09
Feb'23
Cisco looks to Full-Stack Observability Platform to address demands of experience economy
Experience is everything in the new world of work, as organisations disrupt their own business to get a full view on how networks ensure operations will be more important
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February 08, 2023
08
Feb'23
Cisco unveils toolkit for greater network visibility and control
Tech giant introduces cloud services in Operations Dashboard to increase industrial asset visibility and provide industrial IoT customers with path to cloud automation for Operational Technology
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February 03, 2023
03
Feb'23
Finance regulator finding more misleading promotions quicker through improved digital tools
UK finance regulator able to find and block misleading promotions faster through improved digital tools
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February 03, 2023
03
Feb'23
Record fibre growth fails to halt mixed Q3 for BT
Strategy of focus on fibre and 5G vindicated in financial results showing leading UK telco buffeted by inflationary headwinds – but also seeing benefit of growing investment in fixed network infrastructure
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January 31, 2023
31
Jan'23
Digital banking changing the high street forever as banks close branches and open alternatives
Banks are reshaping their channels as customers move to digital services, with physical innovation complementing digital strategies
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January 30, 2023
30
Jan'23
BT tests out high-altitude flying antenna
The trial with Stratospheric Platforms may lead to hydrogen-powered drones being used to provide 4G and 5G rural coverage
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January 25, 2023
25
Jan'23
UK Treasury recruiting digital currency leader
The UK government’s investigation into the merits of a central bank digital currency gathers pace at it looks for a team leader
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January 25, 2023
25
Jan'23
Neos Networks completes full-fibre access promise for key UK cities
Just over a year after UK business connectivity provider opened its first metro access network to offer last-mile services direct to nearly 10,000 regional businesses, such services are now live in four key UK cities as part of an ongoing expansion ...
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January 25, 2023
25
Jan'23
Virgin Media O2 taps Juniper to upgrade core IP backbone for 800G readiness
Need for increased data capacity and flexible scalability highlighted by 32% traffic growth on its mobile network,16% growth in broadband data downloads and a peak traffic load of 22TB over the past year
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January 24, 2023
24
Jan'23
Vodacom lands 2Africa subsea cable in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
What is described as ‘transformative’ subsea cable lands at the Vodacom facility in Gqeberha at South Africa’s Eastern Cape to provide a gateway to direct international connectivity for faster, more reliable internet services in the country and ...
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January 19, 2023
19
Jan'23
Zayo expands 400G fibre to connect Paris and Marseilles
Leading global communications platform boosts European fibre infrastructure with a new fibre route to link up two major French cities, supporting traffic growth and making it easier and more secure for enterprises to send traffic to the rest of ...
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January 19, 2023
19
Jan'23
UK government reveals Cornwall as next port of call for Project Gigabit
Latest contract in UK government’s Project Gigabit programme given to Wildanet to deliver ultra-fast broadband in south-west and mid-Cornwall connecting nearly 20,000 hard-to-reach homes and businesses
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January 19, 2023
19
Jan'23
UK seeks to ban sharing ‘positive’ Channel crossing videos online
Under UK government amendments to the Online Safety Bill, video footage that shows people crossing the Channel in a ‘positive light’ could be added to a list of illegal content that all tech platforms must proactively prevent from reaching users, ...
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January 18, 2023
18
Jan'23
David Anderson KC to review UK surveillance laws
Home Office commissions independent review of the Investigatory Powers Act, known as the snoopers’ charter. It will include a review of bulk datasets and government access to internet connection records held by phone and internet companies
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January 18, 2023
18
Jan'23
Nokia, Telefónica successfully test 25G PON technology in Spain
Noting ever-increasing consumer bandwidth demands and the need to support applications such as the metaverse, operator announces demo of new FTTH technology to offer new business services on same network as home connectivity
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January 17, 2023
17
Jan'23
Orange juices JDE expansion with SD-WAN
Telco’s Business Services division selected by global coffee company to secure end-to-end connectivity offerings for more than 120 locations worldwide
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January 17, 2023
17
Jan'23
Southern Cross switches on third 400GbE transpacific link
Specialist international capacity provider and optical network technology provider announce commercial availability of ultra-high throughput along 15,840km network
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January 17, 2023
17
Jan'23
Cloudflare urged to clamp down on pirates, counterfeiters
A whitepaper produced by brand protection specialist Corsearch calls on Cloudflare to do more to stop online content piracy and sales of counterfeit goods
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January 13, 2023
13
Jan'23
Unionised contract workers who train Google’s AI win pay rise
Google contract workers employed at artificial intelligence training supplier RaterLabs have secured their first-ever pay rise, following collective demands that Google fulfil its own commitment to pay its extended workforce a minimum of $15 an hour
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January 12, 2023
12
Jan'23
AWS opens first Australian Local Zone in Perth
AWS’s first Local Zone in Australia will bring low-latency performance to companies such as Woodside Energy and Nearmaps
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January 12, 2023
12
Jan'23
CityFibre continues gigabit roll-out to non-metro south of England
UK’s largest independent full-fibre platform begins work on £50m digital transformation project in Kent
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January 12, 2023
12
Jan'23
Chrome vulnerability could have led to widespread data theft
A dangerous vulnerability in Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers could have put billions of users’ files at risk of being stolen
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January 12, 2023
12
Jan'23
UK net neutrality regulation failing all stakeholders
Leading analyst releases study showing net neutrality regulation is failing consumers, innovators and investors, calling for evidence-based broadband policy
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January 12, 2023
12
Jan'23
Cloudflare completes SASE offer with Magic WAN Connector
Software-defined wide-area network functionality released by online application acceleration and infrastructure provider Cloudflare to complete single-supplier secure access service edge offering
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January 11, 2023
11
Jan'23
Internet shutdowns cost global economy $24bn in 2022
Deliberate disruption of people’s access to the internet by governments is having a substantial economic impact and contributing to a range of human rights abuses, primarily against protestors
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January 11, 2023
11
Jan'23
What’s happening with quantum-safe cryptography?
Chinese researchers claim quantum technology is reaching a point where a quantum device will soon be able to crack RSA 2048 public key encryption
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January 10, 2023
10
Jan'23
‘Anomaly’ sees first UK space mission fail to reach orbit
Despite optimism surrounding historic first attempt to launch satellites from UK, mission reaches space but falls short of reaching target orbit
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January 10, 2023
10
Jan'23
Launch window opens for UK’s first orbital mission
All systems go for first space mission in UK as project partners announce the official opening of the Start Me Up launch window
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January 06, 2023
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Jan'23
New UK laws to see homeowners, tenants get better access to fast broadband
UK government mandates that almost all new homes in England must be built with gigabit broadband connections during construction, making it easier for homebuyers, renters and some leaseholders to upgrade to ultrafast services
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January 05, 2023
05
Jan'23
Cashless Denmark has no bank robberies in a year for first time
Denmark saw no bank robberies in a single year for the first time ever, but online fraud continues to increase
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January 04, 2023
04
Jan'23
CityFibre and Vodafone complete first UK 2Gbps residential trial
Leading UK independent full-fibre broadband provider teams with comms operator and leading anchor tenant for trial of 2Gbps services, with scope to scale for introduction of services up to 10Gbps, made possible by recent upgrade to XGS-PON
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January 03, 2023
03
Jan'23
Remote workers shun return to work
Study from UK gigabit broadband service provider reveals that despite received wisdom of home workers wanting to make at least partial return to pre-Covid working practices, stark contrast exists between employers and employees in their desire for ...
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December 29, 2022
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Dec'22
Top 10 networking stories of 2022
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 networking stories of 2022
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December 15, 2022
15
Dec'22
Microsoft, Viasat team to deliver internet access to global underserved communities
New collaboration through IT giant’s Airband Initiative designed to increase satellite broadband availability for people across Africa and the rest of the world by the end of 2025
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December 15, 2022
15
Dec'22
UK gigabit access breaks barrier but take-up remains slow
Ofcom’s latest investigation of connectivity across the country finds full-fibre broadband now available to more than 12 million homes and 5G reaching seven in ten properties, while the number of households without access to decent broadband has ...
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December 15, 2022
15
Dec'22
BT boosts network monitoring to improve customer experience
Comms tech provider’s analytics software selected by leading UK network provider in five-year deal to improve operators’ fixed access customer experience
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December 14, 2022
14
Dec'22
Truespeed targets in-building connectivity with new router, Mesh Wi-Fi
Gigabit broadband provider Truespeed switches focus from delivering high-speed connectivity to building and to around them, striking partnership with provider of wireless connectivity devices for homes and businesses
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December 14, 2022
14
Dec'22
Telstra tunes up with orchestration to enhance automation, customer experience
Leading Australian operator taps global comms tech provider to support network-as-a-service (NaaS) strategies, enabling an enhanced experience for business customers through reusable and shared platform for improved network management and ...
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December 14, 2022
14
Dec'22
Almost two-thirds of businesses fear IT estate incapable of supporting hybrid workforce
Research from managed workplace services provider finds current IT setup is preventing effective collaboration, putting remote workers at a disadvantage and driving up cyber risks
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December 14, 2022
14
Dec'22
Medusa Submarine Cable to land on Orange infrastructure in Marseille
Orange will give users of Mediterranean submarine cable system the ability to access datacentres in French city and interconnect through fully redundant infrastructure
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December 12, 2022
12
Dec'22
Openreach announces 12 new full-fibre build locations
London calling for BT-owned broadband provision division as it makes next step in plan to reach 25 million homes with full fibre by December 2026 and launches simplified online map showing when and where full-fibre network is being built
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December 12, 2022
12
Dec'22
CityFibre extends reach across southern England as it files Openreach competition complaint
Just as it carries build-out momentum of 2022 to key towns in Suffolk and Berkshire, UK’s largest independent full-fibre provider protests to UK regulatory authorities about behaviour of arch-rival in gigabit broadband