Back in December I asked “Does Cisco Still Love The Enterprise?” Well, it appears to be spending it’s money elsewhere these days. The much rumoured Pure Digital (Flip Video) In Acquisition has taken place, as Cisco buys it’s way into Apple territory.
So, why should business IT folk worry? Well, it isn’t for the reasons you think. [...]

A piece in the register, subtly titled ”Deception of ‘up to’ broadband speeds exposed” has a nice bit of positive PR for Ofcom:
The average downstream broadband speed received by consumers is just 3.6Mbit/s, according to data released today from the most accurate UK internet access survey ever published.
El reg proclaims…
Ofcom’s new hardware-based broadband monitoring system found that despite [...]

Oh dear… It sounds like Nortel to file for bankruptcy protection“ via ReportonBusiness.com. The Canadian networking giant has been awry for a while - see Nortel - Leavers and Losses - and now has around 26,000 staff. That is a small fraction of the size it was at its peak.
The company still has some good products. Potentially the [...]

A gentle reminder of how delicate our global network infrastructure is, via NetworkWorld:

A robot submarine was scouring the seabed 200 meters under the Mediterranean Sea on Monday trying to locate the ends of undersea cables that were cut on Friday, disrupting voice and Internet traffic.
France Telecom said its repair ship the Raymond Croze had reached [...]

If you use the Internet, especially for business, then it is time to start paying attention to the net neutrality debate again. Chris Albrecht of NewTeeVee blogged this:
In a nutshell, Google’s OpenEdge initiative will put Google’s caching servers within a broadband provider’s facilities. By shacking up, users of those broadband providers will get faster access to Google [...]