Now that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration has launched its <a href="http://www.broadbandmap.gov/%20website">National Broadband Map</a>, it's time to comb through the data to see what we can learn about broadband in the United States.
Comcast and Time Warner Cable have joined the throng of network vendors that are participating in World <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/073009-ipv6-guide.html">IPv6</a> Day, a 24-hour trial of the next-generation Internet protocol scheduled for June 8.
It's hard to fathom why Cisco hasn't added IPv6 to its Linksys consumer routers yet, but the company has promised support will come this spring.
With demand for FCoE more sluggish than vendors had hoped, 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch and adapter makers are making it available for free.
For IT professionals and network industry vendors alike, the events of last week represent a game changer regarding IPv6, which was developed in 1998 but has scarcely been deployed.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) last week launched a new competition for grants to support new or expanded R&D facilities as well as a three-year plan outlining its R&D funding direction.
More than a quarter of AT&T customers and about a quarter of Verizon customers say they are willing to wait in line on Feb. 10 to switch over to Apple iPhones that will run on Verizon's <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/3g-4g.html">3G wireless</a> network.
It's Cisco Live this week - in London, at least. As usual, Cisco makes certification announcements around the time of the show, and this time the announcement has to do with Security.
Verizon will throttle back bandwidth available to the biggest data hogs on its <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/011011-verizon-network-iphone-apple-cdma.html?nwwpkg=iphone&ap1=rcb">wireless network</a> in what it calls an effort to keep up service quality for everybody else.
Internet policymakers officially handed out the last five blocks of IPv4 address space to each of the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) at a ceremony held in Miami Thursday morning.
Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC) has announced plans to buy NaviSite (NASDAQ: NAVI) in a $230 million deal through which Time Warner will inherit more than a thousand business customers who use managed services.
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/020910-websense-triton.html">Websense</a> today unveiled three new gateway <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">security</a> products for e-mail, Web and data-loss prevention that combines an on-premises appliance with secure content filtering in the cloud.
Juniper Networks is accelerating its plan to support IPv6 on its public-facing website and Web services, following criticism that the router maker was lagging rivals including Cisco Systems and Brocade Networks in this critical area.
Comcast is the first cable operator in the United States to provide its cable modem customers with a production-quality service that supports the next-generation Internet Protocol known as IPv6.
The Internet has run out of IPv4 address space.