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Telcos fire up new data centers

Posted February 23, 2012 - 11:25 pm

Calling for more data center space!
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Libyan-American IT guy builds pirate cell net for rebels

Posted April 13, 2011 - 11:19 am

A 31-year-old Libyan-American upgraded communications among rebel forces from flags to phones by building his own cell net and carving a chunk out of the national one.
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Georgia, Armenia taken offline by elderly scourge of the Internet

Posted April 7, 2011 - 10:57 am

Georgian security teams arrested a 75-year-old woman digging for scrap metal, after she accidentally cut the one fiber strand connecting all of Armenia to Cyberspace.
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Holiday Party: Ogling the Oligarchs

Posted December 31, 2010 - 5:51 pm

I can always tell what politicians are going to fight over next year by who people pay me to watch, and who their special friends appear to be.
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What you lost in FCC's net neutrality ruling

Posted December 22, 2010 - 2:18 pm

Carriers and ISPs kept the right to filter traffic as they like; allowing owners of that traffic to pay extra to not slow it down would be discriminatory.
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FCC creates a monster, gives it control of the Internet

Posted December 21, 2010 - 4:01 pm

FCC "network management" guideline lets carriers throttle or block traffic, raise fees for service that already can't live up to its billing.
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EarthLink to acquire another regional telco for $370M

Posted December 20, 2010 - 2:18 pm

Internet services provider EarthLink on Monday announced it has agreed to purchase debt-ridden telecommunications player One Communications for $370 million.
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Finally, common ground in D.C.: everyone hates FCC net neutrality plan

Posted December 16, 2010 - 12:22 pm

Complaints and criticism have been raining on the FCC ever since its chairman the commission would side with telcos on net neutrality regulations.
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Verizon makes makes bid to let fox guard henhouse

Posted November 23, 2010 - 4:19 pm

Verizon's latest suggestion to ensure net neutrality is to suggest non-telecom vendors are to blame for network throttling and eliminate "anticipatory" limits on its behavior.
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What would YOU do for 150 Mbit/sec?

Posted November 22, 2010 - 12:17 pm

Verizon launched a host of fast, modular network and computing services aimed at SMBs but hasn't overcome a poor reputation for gouging customers and poor service.
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Is Videoconferencing the Next Big Threat to Your Job?

Posted October 6, 2010 - 1:18 pm

Citrix Systems' new HD video is just one more bandwidth-sucking app to the hogs already clogging up your net. If you try to resist, they'll eat you.
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Good VoIP Deployment Guidelines (Do Not Exist?)

Posted October 23, 2008 - 8:27 am

I get questions regarding VoIP deployment all the time. Sometimes it is someone looking for simple and cheap Enterprise VoIP, who are unsure if VoIP can be deployed securely with those two parameters in the equation. More often it is the security aware people who are willing to invest almost anything to make it work, but cannot. As always, there is no silver bullet solution for either. If you look at my past opinions, I keep changing my mind between cheap that works, and secure that doesn't. What do you think? Which way should we go in VoIP?
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(Is There) Motivation for VoIP Fuzzing

Posted September 4, 2008 - 3:06 am

What have we learned during these six or so years of proactive security work with VoIP fuzzing? Here is my top ten discoveries.
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Greatest Challenge in VoIP Security

Posted July 16, 2008 - 3:08 am

The greatest challenge in VoIP security is that there are very few good example case studies available. There are some very good VoIP deployments. But try to find a white-paper with someone disclosing all the their success stories in building a perfect VoIP network. No luck! Unfortunately much of that data is hidden in confidential documents. Still, I have really loved to see VoIP security emerge and evolve from being a hindrance in VoIP deployment, into a key marketing value. Finally some of those success stories will get a chance to see daylight.
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