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Virgin Media O2 Daisy shakes up UK business telecoms market

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August 4, 2025
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A new heavyweight has entered the business telecoms market of the UK with the launch of Virgin Media O2 Daisy. Born from the merger of Virgin Media O2’s business division and the Daisy Group, the pitch is to become the sole telecoms partner a UK busine…

SpaceX teases Starlink Gen3 satellites for Terabit internet speeds

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July 16, 2025
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SpaceX’s satellite internet service Starlink is enjoying rapid user growth, increased speed, cut latency, and is now teasing Gen3 satellites. Starlink is in the middle of an extraordinary growth spurt, welcoming over 2.7 million new users in the …

Let’s Encrypt begins issuing IP address certificates

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July 3, 2025
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Let’s Encrypt, the non-profit certificate authority, is now issuing certificates for IP addresses following years of requests for the feature. The certificate authority previously only issued certificates for domain names, forcing users requiring…

Let’s Encrypt begins issuing IP address certificates

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July 3, 2025
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Cloudflare neutralises largest DDoS onslaught in history

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June 20, 2025
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Cloudflare thwarted the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded, a colossal 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps) torrent of malicious data aimed at one of its customers. The event, which took place in mid-May, was 12 percent larger …

Rocket issue grounds Amazon Kuiper satellites launch

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June 18, 2025
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Just when Amazon was ready to send its newest batch of Kuiper internet satellites into space, a rocket issue brought everything to a halt. The launch was all set for Monday afternoon, bright and early, from sunny Cape Canaveral. But with only about 30 …

Openreach warns UK firms over copper switch-off deadline

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June 12, 2025
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Openreach is warning time is running out for UK businesses still using copper networks that are being switched off for good in January 2027—and many business owners don’t realise how much this could affect them. As the company that manages most o…

IGF: How dialogue shaped a safer, more connected web

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June 10, 2025
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Internet Society (ISOC) pulls back the curtain on the tangible legacy of two decades of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). How we connect, work, and share online is woven into th…

Broadcom’s latest Ethernet switch tackles AI demands on networks

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June 4, 2025
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Broadcom’s latest Ethernet switch, the Tomahawk 6 series, delivers record-breaking bandwidth just as AI systems push networks to their limits. If you’ve been following the AI boom closely, you’ll know that one of the biggest bottlenec…

Plugfest conducts 50G-PON & 25GS-PON interoperability tests

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May 7, 2025
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The path towards next-gen superfast fibre optic networks has accelerated thanks to 50G-PON and 25GS-PON interoperability tests at Plugfest. This vital progress stems from the latest ‘Plugfest’ organised by the Broadband Forum (essentially an intensive …