Networking

Smart city index reveals who’s falling behind (London and NYC are laggy) special feature Louisville and the Future of the Smart City Louisville, Kentucky is building a unique bridge between the smart city and the smart home. Here’s what communities and citizens can learn about the benefits of the onrushing …

Sometimes technology charts an unexpected path. Google went from search engine to cartographer with Maps. Now HPE subsidiary Aruba Networks is no longer just installing Wi-Fi, but wants to join up the dots for a single networking infrastructure that will be able to make digital sense of physical context and semantics. “I look at …

(Screenshot: Chris Duckett/ZDNet) Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) company has killed off its plans to offer a 100/40Mbps fixed-wireless product, with NBN CEO Bill Morrow telling Senate Estimates on Thursday there is no economic case for it. “We killed it,” Morrow said. According to the CEO, while expanding capacity on …

Executive Summary We all know networks are an important career asset. But it can be a challenge for working parents to make time for networking, since networks often seem to grow during after-hours activities — like after-work drinks, weekend off-sites, or far-away conferences. But there are ways that working parents can …

Mesh networks are an old technology, but it’s only recently became affordable for small offices/home offices (SOHO) and small businesses. Still, if you used mesh you were stuck with a single vendor. One mesh network was not compatible with another. Thanks to the Wi-Fi Alliance‘s EasyMesh, that’s changing. Mesh networks …

Executive Summary Whether it’s attending startup events, social gatherings, or happy hours, networking is a necessary part of every entrepreneur’s life. But networking can be extremely draining, sometimes robbing founders of the energy they need to work. There are techniques you can use to prevent and cope with networking-induced exhaustion: (1) determining …

Only 26 percent of companies have had an Internet of Things project that they consider a success, according to research from Cisco. And, 60 percent of IoT projects currently die before even leaving the proof of concept stage. ZDNet and TechRepublic have been covering the IoT movement extensively since 2012, …

AI will provide corporates, mentors, investors, and other members of networking platform IvyCamp with a seamless platform to find and evaluate innovative solutions.  IvyCamp, an initiative of IvyCap Ventures Advisors Private Ltd, has injected artificial intelligence into its startup-centric online networking platform that caters exclusively to startup founders, mentors, and investors …

Video: The age of cloud data center dominance is here techrepublic Kubernetes: The smart person’s guide Kubernetes is a series of open source projects for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Find out why the ecosystem matters, how to use it, and more. Read More If you …

WHAT: Tony Fallows joins fellow panelists Alejandro Fuster, Director, Business Development Alliances at COLT; and Mike Frane, Vice President of SD-WAN at Windstream; in a panel session titled “Digital and the Growth Opportunity for the Network Service Providers (NSP).” As consumer and enterprise expectations of service providers continue to rise, …