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DTWS: Rakuten Group's CTO gives details of Symphony

TM Forum

Tareq Amin, Rakuten Group’s Group Chief Technology Officer, Rakuten Group fleshed out some of the details around the new service at TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World Series. ” “The network … is not only about low cost,” he explained.

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New Chinese Internet Clampdown Hurts Business, U.S. Group Says

Data Center Knowledge

(Bloomberg) — China’s clampdown on the use of virtual private networks to circumvent the country’s internet controls risks disrupting businesses that depend on them for cloud services and data security. Besides using virtual private networks to gain access to websites like Facebook and Google.

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Open Internet Exchange Movement Organizing

Data Center Knowledge

Open IX is a movement to bring the European approach to internet exchanges to the U.S. The group is seeking to change the way networks connect with one another, and hoping it will reduce the cost of the physical connections that tie the Internet together. Featured'

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Internet backbone provider shuts off service in Russia

The Verge

Cogent Communications, an internet backbone provider that routes data across intercontinental connections, has cut ties with Russian customers over its invasion of Ukraine, as first reported by The Washington Post. There isn’t any indication as to whether other internet backbone providers will also suspend services in Russia.

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IGMP: Joining a Host Group

IT Toolbox

To eliminate unnecessary multicast traffic on a network, hosts and multicast routers use the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP).

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What CIOs everywhere can learn from Canada’s nationwide internet outage

CIO Business Intelligence

On July 8, 2022, a botched maintenance update on the Rogers ISP network in Canada crashed internet access across the country for at least 12 hours, with some customers experiencing problems for days afterward. The nationwide outage affected phone and internet service for about 12.2 The impact was profound.

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Facebook moves to limit spread of extremist ?boogaloo? pages and groups

The Verge

Facebook is limiting the spread of pages and groups linked with the word “boogaloo,” an internet slang term used in some far-right extremist circles to refer to the idea of an impending second American Civil War, as first reported by Reuters. A report found more than 125 boogaloo groups with more than 72,000 combined members.

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