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Software Lifecycle and Lock-in
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IETF
IETF makes the multihop BFD Echo ban conditional
Revision 02 of an IETF working-group draft redraws a safety boundary that has stood since 2010. Echo remains forbidden wherever an intermediate node could send the packet back early, but the draft now permits it when the path environment can exclude that shortcut.
Global Institutional
The UCIe promise for chiplets depends on what lies beyond the link
UCIe has defined a die-to-die interface that reaches 64 GT/s and now spans 3D packaging, raw traffic and whole-package management. The decisive test will be whether these rules sustain multi-vendor products when power, thermals, manufacturing yield, software, security and…
Global Institutional Trends
Cisco changed today's PSIRT scope before the advisories land
Cisco's interim notice for its 19 August security release now names seven product groups, after adding Crosswork and removing Secure Firewall. For network teams, the revision is a reason to refresh the source before reserving the change window—not evidence that any listed system…
Global Institutional
UCIe's chiplet promise depends on engineering and accountability beyond the link
UCIe has pushed the die-to-die interface to 64 GT/s and added 3D packaging, raw data transport and whole-package management. The real test is whether these rules can support multi-vendor products when power delivery, thermals, yield, software, security and accountability still…
Global Institutional
UCIe’s chiplet promise will be decided beyond the link
UCIe now defines a die-to-die interface reaching 64 GT/s and covering 3D packaging, raw traffic and package-wide management. Its market value depends on whether these rules can support multi-vendor products while power, thermal design, yield, software, security and liability…
Global Institutional
UCIe’s chiplet vision will be decided beyond the link
UCIe defines die-to-die links reaching 64 GT/s and now covers 3D packaging, raw traffic and package-wide management. Its real test is whether multi-vendor products can succeed while power, heat, yield, software, security and responsibility remain outside the standard.
Global Institutional
UCIe’s chiplet promise extends beyond the link
UCIe has defined a die-to-die interface capable of 64 GT/s, 3D stacking, raw traffic and package-wide management. The decisive test is whether those rules enable multi-vendor products while power, thermal design, manufacturing yield, software, security and contractual…
Global Institutional
The promise of UCIe depends on what happens beyond the link
UCIe has defined an inter-chip interface that reaches 64 GT/s and already covers 3D packaging, raw traffic and whole-package management. The decisive test will be whether those rules can sustain multi-vendor products when power, thermals, manufacturing yield, software, security…
IETF
IETF formalises work on unicast local discovery
The DNSSD working group has taken ownership of a proposal that would let devices use a selected unicast server for local service discovery instead of answering every query through multicast. The proposed efficiency gain comes with a new dependency: the server-selection and…
Global Institutional
UCIe's chiplet promise hinges on what lies beyond the link
UCIe has defined a die-to-die interface that reaches 64 GT/s and now covers 3D packaging, raw data traffic and package-wide management. The deciding question is whether these rules can support multi-vendor products when power delivery, thermals, manufacturing yield, software…
Global Institutional
UCIe’s chiplet promise depends on more than the link
UCIe has defined a die-to-die interface reaching 64 GT/s and expanded its scope to 3D packaging, raw data traffic and whole-package management. The decisive test is whether these rules can support multi-vendor products while power, thermal design, manufacturing yield, software…
Global Institutional
UCIe’s chiplet promise depends on what happens beyond the link
UCIe has defined a die-to-die interface that reaches 64 GT/s and now covers 3D packaging, raw traffic and package-wide management. The consortium’s real test is whether those rules can support multi-vendor products when power, thermal design, yield, software, security and…
Global Institutional
Console Connect: The Telecom Network Behind a Cloud-Style API
Console Connect presents global connectivity through the language of cloud consumption: choose endpoints, select capacity, create a service and manage it through a portal or API. Beneath that interface sits a more complicated system of carrier backbone, data-centre ports, local…
Creators
Steven Bellovin and the security questions that escaped the network
Steven M. Bellovin began by testing the claims computers accepted from packets: source addresses, routes, sequence numbers and names. His later work applied the same suspicion to institutions, asking what systems make the public trust when governments demand access, companies…
Global Institutional
Caliptra and the root of trust inside the data-centre chip
Modern servers contain several chips that boot code, hold keys and enforce policy before the host operating system is awake. Caliptra gives those components a common open root of trust, but factories, provisioning systems, physical implementations and fleet verifiers still decide…
Global Datacenter
Equinix Fabric and the Limits of Programmable Interconnection
For more than a decade, Equinix has turned private connections between data centres, clouds, and network services into software-addressable products. The 2026 push into agent-assisted operations and geographic path control extends the platform's usefulness but also makes the…
Global Datacenter
Equinix Fabric and the Limits of Programmable Interconnection
Equinix has spent more than a decade turning private connections between data centres, clouds, and network services into software-manageable products. Its 2026 expansion into agent-assisted operations and geographically constrained routing pushes the platform into broader…
Creators
Bruce Maggs and the algorithms that turned distance into an infrastructure business
Akamai did not shorten the internet; it built a system that made distant content behave as though it were nearby. Bruce Maggs helped turn placement, mapping, caching and failure algorithms into commercial infrastructure, while the scale of that achievement belongs to the team and…
Global Institutional
perfSONAR and the path no single network can diagnose alone
perfSONAR gives research and education networks a shared way to test paths that cross several institutions. It can replace anecdote with common evidence, but endpoint quality, clock accuracy, local policy and incomplete coverage keep diagnosis a collective judgement rather than…
Global Institutional
OpenTitan’s real test began after the silicon shipped
OpenTitan makes the first security decisions inside a computer inspectable. Its reported March 2026 Chromebook deployment moved the project from open design to commercial hardware, where manufacturers, provisioning systems and long-term maintenance now determine whether…