The backbone of the internet is formed by a dense network of fibre- optic cables, each of which transports up to more than 100 terabits of data per second (1 terabit = 1012 digital 1/0 signals) ...

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hurricane Electric, the world’s leading IPv6-native Internet backbone, today announced that it is the first network in the world to connect to over 4,000 IPv6 ...

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hurricane Electric, the world’s largest IPv6-native Internet backbone, today announced that it is the first Internet backbone in the world to connect to over 200 ...

There are signs that hackers attacked key parts of the backbone of the Internet on Tuesday, but no damage seems to have been done, experts said. The attack appears to have focused on the Domain Name ...

FBI director Robert Mueller's testimony to the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives on Wednesday gave a tiny glimpse of the future of law enforcement online, and it raised some tough ...

Five years ago, U.S. and European antitrust watchdogs blocked the merger of MCI and Sprint for fear their combined backbone would have such a dominant share of Internet traffic that it could force ...

The Australian government announced plans last week to spend $19-million to develop a high-speed Internet backbone that will connect 80 major universities and research organizations across the country ...

Technologists tell us we're in the early stages of the third wave of the Internet: the Internet of Things (IoT). It follows the first wave, in which people adopted the Internet through desktop ...

BOSTON (AP) -- Genuity helped bring the Internet into the world. But now its baby is all grown up, and the company may soon join the long line of telecommunications bankruptcies. The Woburn-based ...

Even as China cuts access to some foreign online services, it is laying more fiber optic cables to improve its connection to global Internet networks. China recently added seven new access points to ...

It’s official: The carriers are not making money operating Internet backbones. Why should you care? Because defying the laws of economics is a bit like defying the law of gravity — it appears to work ...

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