HPE beats estimates
Published in Network
05 December 2018

HPE beats estimates


Thanks to storage and data centre gear

The former maker of expensive printer ink, HPE beat analysts’ estimates for quarterly profit and revenue, thanks mostly to greater demand for its storage and data centre networking gear.

100G/400G switches expected to take off
Published in Network


Hyper-scale datacentre establishments

Demand for 100G/400G switches is expected to take off earlier than expected thanks to increasing hyperscale datacentres.

Twitter is highjacked by a small number of bots
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Spreading Fake news

Hopes that Twitter might police its network for fake news were dashed when it a new report revealed that a small number of bots could overwhelm its fact checkers.

Sprint throttles Skype
Published in Network
09 November 2018

Sprint throttles Skype


If only there was a net neutrality law to stop this sort of thing

US telco Sprint has been throttling Microsoft’s Skype service.

Nokia wins $2.3 billion frame deals in China
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One of the advantages of not being an American company

Finnish mobile telecom network maker Nokia announced on Wednesday that it had signed frame deals with China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom worth more than two billion euro.