Network routing and switching

EE joins London Tube 4G mobile trial

BT-owned UK telco will be part of testing of 4G coverage on select parts of the London Underground Continue Reading

Managed services to be prime driver of APAC enterprise mobility

Managed mobility services set to account for one-third of overall enterprise mobility revenue in the Asia-Pacific region by 2023, equivalent to US$5.3bn Continue Reading

Just 10% of UK homes and businesses have access to full-fibre broadband

Ofcom research reveals that for the highest-speed broadband connections, the UK is still in the slow lane, with only three million homes and businesses having access to fibre Continue Reading

2020 set to usher in age of 5G always-on portable computing

Analyst identifies key 5G trends that will bear fruit in new year and pours cold water on one hyped technology that it thinks won’t make it Continue Reading

Top 10 broadband stories of 2019

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 broadband stories of 2019 Continue Reading

Spirent lands at China’s Daxing International to assure critical communications

Beijing airport seeks to create an unrivalled technology experience for passengers and airport personnel Continue Reading

EE switches on 5G in six more UK locations

Operator broadens UK’s largest 5G network with six additional locations and announces aggressive plans for 2020 Continue Reading

Euro telcos eye up cloud market

With the increasing need for global cloud giants to address security, localisation and regulatory compliance, Europe’s telcos eye up datacentre and hosted services as potential growth areas Continue Reading

Huawei launches London 5G innovation and experience centre

Comms technology leader opens new establishment in UK capital to promote greater collaboration between businesses and innovators in the development of 5G ecosystems Continue Reading

Cisco unveils plans for internet of the future

Online technology giant Cisco introduces platform for the internet of the future based on $5bn of investment in areas covering silicon, optics and software, bringing the ability to support massively scaled enterprise networks and 5G networks Continue Reading

Silver Peak claims cloud-scale SD-WAN innovation with enhanced core platform

SD-WAN tech provider enhances Unity EdgeConnect platform to respond to the evolving requirements of cloud-first enterprises looking to scale, automate and extend SD-WAN deployments across multiple fabrics Continue Reading

China, Japan, India to drive APAC networking spend to 2023

Asia-Pacific enterprises are continuing to strengthen their network agility and service delivery capabilities with a view to offering converged service offerings, says GlobalData study Continue Reading

European Investment Bank offers financial support for Orange fibre network

Orange aims to accelerate French fibre momentum following €700m loan from European Investment Bank to develop non-metro French high-speed broadband Continue Reading

Telefónica set to announce second core tech supplier as it takes broadcasting to the Edge

Spanish incumbent telco announces plans to add another supplier to join Huawei on its official supplier list for 5G-enabling technologies Continue Reading

German government and connectivity tech firms lead project to boost optical capacity

Government-industry consortium will explore technologies to expand the capacity of optical metro and core networks Continue Reading

Mettis Aerospace completes world’s first phase-one Wi-Fi 6 4.0 trials

Next-gen Wi-Fi is successfully put through its paces streaming critical engineering information in “hostile” engineering environment Continue Reading

Huawei mounts legal challenge to US subsidy programme ban

Chinese tech giant fights back against FCC ban on carriers in the rural US from using the Universal Service Fund to buy its equipment and designation as threat to US national security Continue Reading

Traditional telco approach risks hampering 5G development in manufacturing

Adoption of enterprise business models could see operators’ 5G break-even reduced from 14 to 10 years, with especially large gains in manufacturing, says ABI Research Continue Reading

5G to reshape global telecoms sector in 2020

Study says next-gen technologies and the pressures of digital transformation are likely to continue to reshape what it means to be a telecoms operator next year Continue Reading

CERN increases network capacity for cutting edge of research

Aiming to boldly go even further where physics hasn’t gone before, CERN increases capacity of its technical network to support breakthrough research in fundamental physics Continue Reading

Orange Poland picks Juniper Networks for major core network upgrade

Orange Poland has embarked on a project to enhance the resilience and automation capabilities of its IP network core by automating its WAN and enhancing the management of label-switched paths Continue Reading

OPPO joins Ericsson 5G spectrum sharing project

Chinese smartphone manufacturer deploys Ericsson dynamic spectrum-sharing technology in data call on Telstra and Swisscom 5G networks Continue Reading

Orange taps Ericsson to bring machine learning, AI to networks ops

Telco extends service contract with Ericsson in five European countries to bring artificial intelligence network operations, field support, and maintenance, as well as service management for fixed-line access, 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G Continue Reading

Taking business transformation and disruption to the Extreme

Supporting business transformation and disruption seem to be on every supplier’s lips these days, but not many can say they are where they are today precisely because of their own business transformation and disruption. Extreme Networks can Continue Reading

UK Court of Appeal gives boost to telcos scoping 5G access points

UK court sides with telco against landowner in legal row regarding access to survey site for 5G technology Continue Reading

Openreach set for third technology supplier as it hits Bristol fibre benchmark

BT Group-owned broadband infrastructure provider set to add third fibre to the premises (FTTP) technology supplier to Huawei and Nokia as it accelerates fibre deployment across the UK Continue Reading

Ericsson: More than 2.6 billion 5G subscriptions by end of 2025

Latest Ericsson Mobility Report reveals that 5G has the potential to cover up to 65% of the world’s population and handle 45% of global mobile data by 2025 Continue Reading

Qualcomm and Bosch Rexroth target industrial device market for 5G tech

Collaborating companies successfully demonstrate industrial devices utilising time-sensitive networking technology while operating over a live 5G network Continue Reading

State backs Norway’s fibre cable capacity building

Norway is increasing investment on communications infrastructure in an effort to reduce reliance on Swedish and Danish networks Continue Reading

Juniper claims longest 400GbE deployment

As pressure grows to support bandwidth demands from advanced high-performance computing uses cases, Juniper Networks announces success in 1,300-mile 400GbE network test Continue Reading

Wind River teams with Dell for 5G distributed edge system

Dell EMC teams with Wind River to form Kubernetes-based system to see use in virtual RAN (vRAN) infrastructures for 5G networks Continue Reading

Vodafone calls up Google Cloud for digital transformation platform

Vodafone is using Google Cloud to create products and services based on deeper customer insight to engage customers with better, more personalised support Continue Reading

Gigabit internet now available to one in 20 globally

5G starts eating into fibre as 5% of the global population gain access to gigabit networks Continue Reading

APAC has one of highest variations in cloud performance

The network performance of public cloud services in the Asia-Pacific region has greater variability than elsewhere, new study finds Continue Reading

Investec Bank cashes in on WAN acceleration

Investec Bank turns to WAN acceleration to cut down distributed database response times and ensure that more traders can go online and earn more money Continue Reading

Failure to assess cloud network architectures affecting service performance

The second annual ‘Cloud performance benchmark report’ from ThousandEyes notes the need for businesses to make rigorous assessments of underlying network architectures in cloud service acquisition Continue Reading

Nextgenaccess gains 20-year rights to run full fibre alongside HS1 track

Broadband infrastructure provider will deploy high-capacity 432 Fibre System between Stratford in London and Eurotunnel in Folkestone Continue Reading

London 5G operators make mixed start to service lives

London 5G networks are not yet cutting the mustard in terms of consistency and reliability of performance Continue Reading

University Hospitals Birmingham demos UK’s first remote 5G-powered diagnostic procedure

NHS trust uses BT 5G network to deliver medical services to a 5G-connected ambulance, combining virtual, augmented and robotic technology Continue Reading

What is the difference between a bridge and a router?

While a bridge and router share some similarities, the difference between a bridge and router is significant, including how the devices interpret network connections. Continue Reading

Google Cloud introduces holistic cloud network monitoring

Spotting a gap in holistic network management in today’s multicloud business environments, Google Cloud introduces its Network Intelligence Centre Continue Reading

Industry questions viability of Labour plan to offer free full-fibre broadband to all UK homes

Uproar in tech sector as Labour proposes to part-nationalise BT and offer free full-fibre broadband to all individuals and businesses by 2030 if successful in General Election Continue Reading

Cord-cutting driving global broadband usage to surpass 500GB of data per month

Exodus from traditional video services to online spurs surge in average broadband data usage, presenting untapped opportunities for service providers Continue Reading

Uploadcare gets $1.7m cash investment to expand CDN

Funding will help bi-directional CDN technology provider to accelerate content delivery speed, reduce internet traffic volume and acquire Blinkloader content optimisation platform Continue Reading

What's the difference between half-duplex and full-duplex?

A half-duplex transmission could be considered a one-way street between sender and receiver. Full-duplex, on the other hand, enables two-way traffic at the same time. Continue Reading

Enterprises begin mandating open APIs as part of RFPs

Back-office implementations see increased demand for native support for TM Forum’s Open APIs, boosting interoperability and helping service providers improve agility and reduce IT integration and maintenance costs Continue Reading

Mist gets into gear with first self-driving network for the enterprise

Mist Systems has launched what it claims as the world’s first AI-driven self-driving network for the enterprise, allowing business users to streamline IT operations, simplify troubleshooting across wired/wireless domains and deliver optimised experiences Continue Reading

German telcos team to combat mobile dead spots

Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica Deutschland and Vodafone have entered into a co-operation for mobile network expansion to extend coverage throughout Germany Continue Reading

Executive interview: Towards the internet and beyond

Fifty years ago, a computer at UCLA communicated with another at SRI International, laying the first stepping stone towards the global internet Continue Reading

Telcos take to commercial blockchain to seize new revenue streams

GlobalData report finds blockchain usage among telcos increasing, with use cases such as roaming fraud management, wholesale fees settlement, mobile money payments and IoT management Continue Reading

Jonathan Oxley appointed interim Ofcom chief executive

Ofcom group director for competition and board member fills in as regulator expects to make permanent appointment after General Election Continue Reading

5G core tech leadership race a close-run thing

What is said to be the first competitive landscape assessment of the 5G Mobile Core arena shows the market is still very much up for grabs Continue Reading

Arpanet: 50 years of internetworking

50 years ago, researchers at Darpa, connected a group of computers together over a packet-switching network called Arpanet Continue Reading

FCC guns for Huawei, ZTE in US comms network protection proposal

US comms regulator proposes regulations that could see technology from Chinese suppliers such as ZTE and Huawei removed from US comms networks Continue Reading

Openreach: momentum needed now to hit all IP UK network target

Openreach says time is very much of the essence if it is to meet its 2025 target of upgrading the UK’s comms infrastructure to a full fibre and All-IP technologies Continue Reading

London announces £10m cash injection for full-fibre connectivity

New fibre-optic cabling scheme will use Tube network and public buildings to create a fibre backbone across the capital Continue Reading

IT professionals question networks’ readiness to support digital strategies

Cisco’s Global Networking Trends report shows there’s a long way to go for today’s networks to meet the demands of the emerging digital era Continue Reading

StreetWise gets into gear with London driverless car trials

The StreetWise consortium, led by technology startup FiveAI in partnership with insurance firm Direct Line Group and the Transport Research Laboratory, announces testing of autonomous vehicles in South London in October and November 2019 Continue Reading

Global broadband market sees fibre push

Trend towards fibre and dropping copper for broadband links continues in second quarter, but at a slower rate Continue Reading

IoT connectivity management platforms flourish

Berg Insight research reveals huge potential growth in devices managed on commercial internet of things connectivity management platforms, predicting a rise from 770 million in 2018 to 3.15 billion by 2023 Continue Reading

Nordic governments open to Huawei’s ‘no spy’ offer

Chinese tech giant seeks to reassure Nordic governments over security concerns in 5G contracts Continue Reading

Qualcomm teams with Radisys to hasten 5G deployment process

Chip maker Qualcomm inks 5G technology partnership with telecoms software provider Radisys for faster time to market and faster time to revenue Continue Reading

CityFibre expands connectivity offer with Digital Wholesale Solutions

Wholesale full-fibre provider CityFibre is to make its products available to independent communications, IT and cloud services provider DWS Continue Reading

The lure of Google Cloud for Singapore’s Ninja Van

Regional logistics startup Ninja Van is consolidating all its compute resources on Google Cloud for cost savings and performance Continue Reading

Brussels accuses Broadcom of breaching antitrust practices

Competition commissioner says US tech giant’s behaviour is “likely, in the absence of intervention, to create serious and irreversible harm to competition” Continue Reading

Intel makes Pivot towards 5G with Smart Edge acquisition

Chip giant Intel has signed a definitive agreement to buy the Smart Edge intelligent-edge platform business from infrastructure and service provider Pivot Technology Solutions Continue Reading

CityFibre announces consultation to speed up full fibre switchover

CityFibre undertakes industry-wide consultation process regarding the role of builders such as itself in developing the switchover from legacy copper networks Continue Reading

Bridge vs. switch comparison: What's the difference?

A network bridge connects two local area networks. A network switch, on the other hand, connects multiple clients to a network. Learn more about these two network components. Continue Reading

Understanding why IPv6 renumbering problems occur

IPv6 renumbering can be a challenge, especially if a host using SLAAC obtains stale prefixes. But there are steps you can take to reduce your vulnerability. Continue Reading

Cisco frozen out of China as Trump’s trade war rages on

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins reveals the firm is being edged out of the Chinese market Continue Reading

CityFibre announces 14 more locations on its full-fibre network

Full-fibre broadband provider extends its network to more homes and businesses in latest roll-out Continue Reading

There’s no free lunch in SD-WAN, says Tata Communications

Software-defined wide-area networks may help to lower connectivity costs and prioritise network traffic, but enterprises must still invest in bandwidth to reap the benefits of the technology Continue Reading

Cisco shows off AI-driven network analysis at customer event

New tools to help IT departments better understand network behaviour and predict potential problems were among a series of announcements made on the opening day of Cisco Live in the US Continue Reading

StarHub taps OpenStack to run telco network

The Singapore telco has deployed OpenStack and signed up for Red Hat’s training programme to equip its network engineers with technical expertise Continue Reading

What's the difference between a router, switch and hub?

Although a router, switch and hub all help direct network traffic, the devices transmit packets in different ways. Discover the differences among these network devices. Continue Reading

Cisco sees enterprise network opportunity in public cloud

CEO Chuck Robbins says Cisco is in the best place to make the most of the new era of 5G, IoT and Wi-Fi 6 enterprise networking Continue Reading

What's the difference between an edge router vs. core router?

Clearly, an edge router and core router are placed in different parts of the network, but their routing roles are more complex than their physical locations. Continue Reading

Ahead of FTTP and 5G, BT picks Nokia to enhance core capacity

With the national full-fibre broadband roll-out in full swing and 5G expected to launch, BT is deploying new Nokia hardware at its network core to boost capacity for data-hungry services Continue Reading

EDF awards Hinkley Point C comms services contract to Telent

Network services company will run communications and IT infrastructure at new nuclear power plant Continue Reading

How Australia’s Curtin University is transforming the digital classroom

The Perth-based institution has been using collaborative learning spaces to better engage students and bring its classes to the world Continue Reading

Colt picks Cisco to simplify 5G backhaul services

Colt is to deploy Cisco’s segment routing and Ethernet VPN-based architecture on its IQ Network for mobile operators Continue Reading

Over 100 rural primary schools to get gigabit broadband

Primary schools could become high-speed broadband hubs for rural communities if government plans reach fruition Continue Reading

IT Priorities 2019: Security concerns top agenda for network buyers again

The ability to gain visibility into what is happening on enterprise networks has once again topped the agenda for network managers and buyers, according to the latest Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities survey Continue Reading

MWC 2019: Huawei claims massive lead on 5G readiness

At a pre-Mobile World Congress event in London, Huawei’s Ryan Ding shared details of the firm’s rapidly expanding 5G mobile portfolio, and laid into his competitors Continue Reading

Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload - Episode 2

In this week’s episode of Computer Weekly’s Downtime Upload podcast, the team discuss what went on at Cisco Live Europe, consider the benefits of office robots, and deep dive into the financial results of AWS, SAP and Microsoft Continue Reading

Compute strategies for AI applications

Devising compute strategies for AI applications can be challenging. Find out about the hardware, network and software frameworks available Continue Reading

Cisco Live Europe: Intent-based networking meets the IoT head-on

Networking and communications technology supplier Cisco plans to bring intent-based networking techniques to bear on the internet of things Continue Reading

Cisco breaks out of physical datacentres to support app-based future

At Cisco Live Europe, extending datacentre capabilities beyond the confines of the physical site to enable app innovation formed the core of a swathe of announcements made by the networking kingpin Continue Reading

MPs challenge Huawei over spying allegations

The chair of the cross-bench Science and Technology Committee has written to Huawei seeking answers over its activities in the UK Continue Reading

The pitfalls of multicloud network management

Migrating to and managing a multicloud network introduces new complexities into the network. We look at how to avoid the potential pitfalls Continue Reading

SMEs urged to get on board with Network Services 2 framework

Suppliers have until the end of January 2019 to sign up to the new government network services purchasing framework Continue Reading

Can we live without passwords?

Can you imagine a future in which we can be secure online without having to remember an unwieldly list of passwords? Solutions are emerging that could make passwords redundant, but there will be other security problems to resolve Continue Reading

Top 10 network stories of 2018

2018 was the year when software-defined networking, and more specifically software-defined WANs, took centre stage. We look back at a transformative year for the world of the network manager Continue Reading

Bright future for OTT video – if the network can support it

The emergence of over the top video services is having a massive impact on underlying network technology, according to the ITP Continue Reading

O2 and Nokia partner up on 5G-focused Massive MIMO trial in London

Mobile network operator O2 is carrying out an investigative trial involving Massive MIMO technology in Kings Cross and Marble Arch, London to ascertain how best to ready its network for an uptick in 5G-induced data usage Continue Reading

Securing the SD-WAN: The next network challenge

Every time an enterprise weighs up whether or not to try SD-WAN, security is an essential part of the picture Continue Reading

Automation and CSR are driving reskilling process for UK plc, says Cisco

UK business leaders are planning to make dramatic changes to their organisations between now and 2020, according to a new report from Cisco Continue Reading

When networks collide: how M&A brings infrastructure together

Enterprise IT runs on networking, so fixing up the network should be a priority issue during mergers and acquisitions – but that’s not always the case. Find out how the pros manage it. Continue Reading

Network growth brings management challenges

As enterprise networks grow, so do the challenges of managing them effectively, says a report compiled by Oracle’s communications unit Continue Reading

At the new Cisco, culture is as important as innovation

Cisco’s newly appointed SVP of Emear, Wendy Mars, shares her thoughts on the state of network innovation within the industry, and explains why cultural change is just as important an element of a digital strategy Continue Reading