Cisco buys Internet BGP monitoring firm CodeBGP

Aiming to bolster its assessment of Internet traffic health Cisco said it would buy startup Border Gateway Protocol monitoring firm Code BGP for an undisclosed amount. Privately held Code BGP will slide into Cisco’s ThousandEyes network intelligence product portfolio and bring a cloud-based platform that among other features, maintains an inventory of IP address prefixes, peerings and outbound policies of an organization via configured sources, like BGP feeds.

Global hosting providers help keep key Ukraine web sites available

Providers' distributed hosting sites help dodge DDoS attacks, and security measures intercept application-layer threats, according to an analysis by ThousandEyes.

War tests Ukrainian telecom, internet resilience

One year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the country’s overall resilience and defiance has been inspiring, but the telecommunications and internet connectivity situation has grown much more difficult.

Wi-Fi HaLow: Wireless for the internet of things

High bandwidth, long range, unlicensed spectrum, low power, and less complexity can make Wi-Fi HaLow a better option than Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 6 for some IoT applications.