How Apple’s Camera AirPods Could Overwhelm Enterprise Wireless Networks
Apple is exploring AirPods with built-in cameras, a move that will force IT teams to rethink wireless capacity, QoS, and zero-trust security for wearable devices.
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Microsoft Scout: The AI Agent Automating Enterprise Network Tasks
Microsoft's AI coworker Scout autonomously handles network tasks like QoS tuning and VLAN management, reducing manual workloads by 40% for early adopters.
Waymo’s Ojai Robotaxi Demands Next-Gen Network Infrastructure
Waymo’s Chinese-made Ojai robotaxi fleet stresses SD-WAN, QoS, and edge computing with 20–40 TB daily data loads and sub-10ms latency requirements.
Free vs. Paid Transcription: Why Network Teams Need Precision
Free transcription tools miss 1 in 5 technical terms—a risk network engineers can't afford when documenting BGP changes or firewall rules.
How Robotics and Secure Networking Are Feeding San Francisco’s Most Vulnerable
A Tenderloin nonprofit's robotic kitchen demonstrates how edge computing, zero-trust networking, and QoS policies enable automated food services in high-need urban areas.
Flawed Cisco update threatens to stop APs from getting further patches
Cisco admins are scrambling to patch a critical flash memory overflow vulnerability in over 200 Cisco Systems IOS XE-based models of wireless access points (APs), caused by a recent flawed software update. If the issue is not corrected quickly, the AP’s memory will become so flooded that new software updates will be blocked and the AP rendered insecure, or possibly…
IPv6 may briefly have accounted for more than half of internet traffic
Has IPv6 finally reached its day of glory? It’s fair to say that IPv6 has not had the level of take-up expected when the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) ratified it back in 1998. Take-up has been agonizingly slow, not reaching 5 percent of traffic until 2014. However, the use of IPv6 has been slowly climbing since, and according to…
Satellite backhaul service Globalstar has a new, rich owner amid challenging market conditions
Globalstar, a mobile satellite services (MSS) operator in which Apple has a 20% stake, on Tuesday announced a merger agreement with Amazon, which, pending regulatory approval, could soon bring direct to device services (D2D) services to Leo, the latter’s low Earth orbit satellite network. The deal, worth an estimated $11.6 billion, is an indication that the so-called new space race,…
Broadcom’s Facebook friend will help train it to accelerate AI workloads
A partnership between Broadcom and Meta could benefit other datacenter operators, as the networking company hones its expertise for supporting AI development. Meta is developing its own in-house AI chips for its exclusive use, and has extended an agreement with Broadcom to support that infrastructure, an agreement that will also provide Broadcom with the know-how to ramp up its expertise…
Data centers are costing local governments billions
Tax benefits for hyperscalers and other data center operators are costing local administrations billions of dollars. In the US, three states are already giving away more than $1 billion in potential tax revenue, while 14 are failing to declare how much data center subsidies are costing taxpayers, according to Good Jobs First. The campaign group said the failure to declare…