Woodstock Wire: Voice + Data Network News

Tech -- Mashable - The satellite dish SpaceX has been shipping to Starlink customers is actually worth far more than the $499 it's charging its customers.



On Tuesday, SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell revealed at a satellite industry forum that the company has...

Life -- Lifehacker - If you have one of three different models of an Ellipsis Jetpack hotspot-the same Jetpack hotspot you would have purchased from Verizon to give nearby devices access to 4G connectivity-you're going to want to stop using them. Verizon is recalling...

Infosec -- The Akamai Blog - To Akamai's Co-Founder Danny Lewin, calling someone a "Titan" was the highest praise he would give. Danny himself was a remarkably talented and hard-working leader whose heart, passion, and spirit still inspire us. Today, Danny's accolade...

Infosec -- The Akamai Blog - The first rule of edge compute thought leadership is: don't overuse the term edge. Over the course of my blog series on the topic, I have defined the edge, explained edge computing, and discussed the economics of edge computing. There...

Business Wire -- Largest, fastest and now the most reliable 5G, too. A new report published today by independent research firm umlaut shows T-Mobile customers get the most reliable 5G in the U.S. umlaut examined real customer usage from millions of device measurements...

Business Wire -- CoreSite Realty Corporation (NYSE:COR), a premier provider of secure, reliable, high-performance data center, cloud access and interconnection solutions in major U.S. metropolitan areas, today announced it will host its first quarter 2021 earnings conference...

Enterprise -- InfoQ - Cloudflare has recently introduced a new Web Application Firewall. The latest engine is written in Rust, provides better performances and integrates with other Cloudflare products. By Renato Losio

Aspencore -- EETimes - Ericsson has finally joined the openness party in mobile infrastructure, establishing an Open Lab at its Ottawa, Canada, research facility that will focus on virtualized 5G radio access networking (RAN) technologies.

The move is a clear signal...

Enterprise -- Storage Newsletter - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC announced the initial public filing of a Form 10 registration statement with the US SEC for the previously announced potential spin-off its MSP business into a standalone, separately-traded public company...

Media -- Time - Tech - On March 10, photos and videos on Twitter were loading more slowly than usual for users in Russia. It was not a network fault or server error but a deliberate move by Russia's state internet regulator Roskomnadzor to limit traffic to the...

Infosec -- Cloudflare - Over the past few weeks, our team has written a lot about the Cloudflare for Teams Dashboard, and more specifically, about our approach to design and the content within it. In these recent posts, we charted the journey of developing omni-directional...

Business Wire -- Riverbed honored with 5-star rating in the 2021 CRN Partner Program Guide

Media -- ELE Times - Power over Ethernet (PoE) evolved in response to the growing need for fast, cost-effective network communication among powered devices (PD). The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) developed safety standards to support...

Enterprise -- ChannelBuzz.ca - Committing to a cloud-first future, Infoblox recently announced the Cloud Specialization program, aimed at expanding the skill sets of its top-performing...

Enterprise -- ZDNet Blogs - Like Akamai does for media delivery and security, the company is using its network to keep vaccine registration websites operating under high demand.

Enterprise -- Computerworld - Spending on social and collaborative applications will likely see double-digit growth this year, according to a Gartner forecast, as businesses focus on keeping remote workers connected during the pandemic and beyond.While videoconferencing...

Tech -- The Verge - President Biden plans to announce a sweeping infrastructure plan Wednesday that includes $100 billion to connect every American to high-speed broadband internet over the next eight years.

Biden...

Aspencore -- EETimes - The number of 5G-capable mobile devices announced and commercially available has passed the 600 mark this month, the Global Suppliers Association (GSA) said in its latest survey, published this week.

The organization puts the number that have...

Business Wire -- NETGEAR(r), Inc. (NASDAQ:NTGR), the leading provider of networking products that power small and medium businesses, today announced the availability of the GS316EP and GS316EPP PoE+ Gigabit Ethernet Plus switches that deliver small businesses, retail...

Business Wire -- SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced the initial public filing of a Form 10 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") for the previously...

Tech -- TechCrunch - SpaceX has added yet more Starlink satellites to its existing constellation on orbit, with a successful delivery of 60 spacecraft this morning from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The mission used a Falcon 9 with a flight-prove booster that served...

Media -- CNBC - Business - Lockheed Martin announced a strategic interest agreement with satellite startup Omnispace, "to explore jointly developing 5G capability from space."

Infosec -- Cloudflare - Today we're announcing support for malware detection and prevention directly from the Cloudflare edge, giving Gateway users an additional line of defense against security threats.Cloudflare Gateway protects employees and data from threats...

Infosec -- Cloudflare - Last October, we announced Cloudflare One, our comprehensive, cloud-based network-as-a-service solution that is secure, fast, reliable, and defines the future of the corporate network. Cloudflare One consists of two components: network services...

Infosec -- CSO Online - Cloudflare has added two new major features to its Cloudflare One network-as-a-service platform. Magic WAN allows organizations to connect their branch offices, data centers, cloud assets, and remote workers to its global network and use...

Tech -- Addictive Tips - Monitoring is an important part-if not the most important part-of any network administrator's job. The goal is to ensure that everything is running smoothly and that no abnormality such as network congestion goes unnoticed. The popularity...

Business Wire -- Mission-critical networks and other essential enterprise infrastructure can only maintain reliable operation if they continuously receive accurate timing information from network time servers, but these servers can be vulnerable to Global Positioning...

Business Wire -- Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, today introduced Magic WAN with Magic Firewall and new strategic partnerships with major networking and data center providers as part...

Business Wire -- F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV) announced the appointment of two senior executives as the company bolsters its focus on customer success, business transformation, and cybersecurity. Yvette Smith joins the company today as Senior Vice President of Customer Success and...

Aspencore -- EETimes - For many years, mobile network operators have viewed the masts and towers that house their antennas, radios and switching gear as strategic assets vital for their competitive standing.

But over the past year or so, the European market has seen...

Infosec -- The Akamai Blog - From its beginnings as a replacement for a centralized database, the Domain Name System (DNS) has evolved into a dynamic, highly distributed, question-answer protocol. The proverbial "phone book of the internet" has increased in complexity...

Business Wire -- Twilio (NYSE: TWLO), the leading cloud communications platform, today announced that one billion people will receive COVID-19 communication powered by Twilio within the next 12-24 months to support an accelerated and equitable rollout of the COVID-19...

Business Wire -- Yottaa, Inc., the leading Cloud platform for accelerating eCommerce, today announced outstanding results for 2020 as the company moves into its new fiscal year, which began February 1. During a very challenging year, Yottaa was able to drive tremendous...

Business Wire -- Introducing the new Nighthawk Tri-band Mesh WiFi 6 system delivers more processing power than WiFi 5, increasing the overall WiFi performance.

Business Wire -- CoreSite Realty Corporation (NYSE:COR) ("CoreSite," or the "Company"), a premier provider of secure, reliable, high-performance data center, cloud access and interconnection solutions across the U.S., today announced the availability of direct fiber and...

Business Wire -- 8x8, Inc. (NYSE: EGHT) announced the availability of 8x8 Contact Center for Microsoft Teams, which is certified to integrate with Teams.

Enterprise -- The Register - Open-source stuff stays for now, company promises

Palo Alto Networks (PAN) has described its $156m buy of cloudy DevSecOps biz Bridgecrew as a "key bet" at a time when the world has never been more reliant on off-premises computing....

Infosec -- The Akamai Blog - TL;DR

IP Anycast is a network addressing and routing methodology that allows IP addresses to be announced from multiple points on the internet

With the proper implementation, Anycast can reduce DNS RTTs and offer innate DDoS protection

Akamai's...

Business Wire -- Fastly, Inc. (NYSE: FSLY), announced today that it has issued an additional $123.75 million aggregate principal amount of 0% Convertible Senior Notes due 2026 (the "notes"), for net proceeds of approximately $121.30 million, pursuant to the exercise in...

Infosec -- The Akamai Blog - We're proud of the progress Akamai has made in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. From reducing our greenhouse gas emissions by 30% and powering our platform with 50% renewable energy, to the millions invested in...

Media -- ELE Times - Seismologists working with Fiberoptics experts at Google have developed a method to use existing underwater telecommunication cables to detect earthquakes. The technique could lead to the improved earthquake and tsunami warning systems around...

Business Wire -- Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), a leader in secure, AI-driven networks, today announced the date and webcast information for its Smart Session Routing and AIOps Tech Talk: Sujai Hajela, SVP, AI-Driven Enterprise at Juniper Networks, and Andy Ory, VP, General...

Enterprise -- EfficientIP - When it comes to handling of new applications and workloads for modern digital infrastructures, multicloud is an unquestionable reality. However, the real value of cloud is being held back by siloed data and manual processes which are both...

Enterprise -- Network World News - The COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the networking arena in a number of ways, including the rise of fully automated remote offices, the need to support a "branch of one," and the growth of new communications software tools."One of...

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - The company said it was reorganizing its business groups with a greater focus on its security division.

PR Newswire -- Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the world's most trusted solution for securing and delivering digital experiences, today announced an organizational realignment that is intended to position the company to become even more agile in...

Think -- Gartner Blog Network - There's a saying that if there is a dangerous intersection, don't wait for an accident to put up a stop sign, because for at least one party, it will be too late. When it comes to your DNS infrastructure, likewise, don't wait for...

Enterprise -- ChannelBuzz.ca - The addition of DoH and DoT protocol support are important for DNS encryption, with the DoT likely to be especially significant for partners since it has been less used until now and so is less well understood.Bob Rose, Senior Product...

Enterprise -- Network World News - Deploying and operating applications in multiple public clouds is critical to many IT leaders, and networking software can help.Migrating applications to cloud infrastructure requires scale, performance, and, importantly, automation....

Business Wire -- SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced the appointment of Kevin Bury as chief customer officer for the SolarWinds MSP division. As the organization embarks on its next wave...