Back when net neutrality was a thing, engineers at the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) tested US interdomain links, and found them mostly flowing freely.

News of Verizon throttling a California fire department's data suggest things have already changed in America, but if CAIDA's work gets legs, the world will at least have a new way to detect that kind of behaviour.

Published this month after winning the ACM's SIGCOMM 2018 "best paper" accolade, "Inferring Persistent Interdomain Congestion" offers an architecture for what its 10 authors called "large-scale third-party monitoring of the Internet interconnection ecosystem".

When the group

The Broadband Forum has dropped the first open-source code in an access interoperability project designed to support cloud-based access infrastructure and services.

The Open Broadband – Broadband Access Abstraction (OB-BAA) project was announced here and published here .

Broadband Forum CEO Robin Mersh said the project helps network operators take an optimised approach to infrastructure rather than having to fetch the upgrade forklift.

OB-BAA specifies core components, northbound, and southbound interfaces for virtualized access devices (for example, a virtual CPE in which the "box in the home" supports connectivity and nearly nothing else, with cloud services providing smarts like the

The European Union reckons 5G R&D needs a boost – so it has slung a loan of €500m in the general direction of Finland.

Nokia, recipient of the loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), hasn't identified specific goals for its development effort.

However, EIB president Alexander Stubb told Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat that Europe needs to catch up with the countries it sees as the powerhouses of 5G – China and the USA.

"We have to understand that China and the US have moved fast with the 5G. It is very

Many low-cost wireless temperature and humidity sensors use a 433 MHz transmitter to send data back to their base stations. This is a great choice for the manufacturer of said devices because it’s simple and the radios are cheap, but it does limit what we as the consumer can do with it a bit. Generally speaking, you won’t be reading data from these sensors on your computer unless you’ve got an SDR device and some experience with GNU Radio and reading the Nexus protocol.

But [Aquaticus] has developed a very comprehensive piece of software that should make integrating these type …read more

Telefonica’s O2 has confirmed that it is experimenting with transmitting high speed data using lightbulbs, the brainchild of an Edinburgh University professor Harald Haas.

Transmitting data over the visible part of the spectrum, VLC (pdf) , has one obvious advantage over using the congested RF spectrum. The IEEE began examining it in the 1990s, but the working group it established hasn’t seen much action for a decade. What’s changed is the availability of cheap LEDs.

But as Harald Professor Haas , who coined the term "Li-Fi", explained in this 2015 paper ( pdf ) - that there’s plenty of work