Backbones, BGP, DDoS and the plumbing that keeps packets moving.
Following reported drone strikes on Yandex data centers, claims spread that Russian bot farms had been knocked offline. Traffic data tells a different story: malicious automation migrated to other hosting providers rather than stopping.
Japan's government has selected three operators to build new subsea cable landing stations across the country, breaking the concentration of international connectivity at two vulnerable coastal hubs near Tokyo and Osaka.
APNIC's resource delegation review program moved forward in Q3 2026, completing initial audits of IRINN and CNNIC while expanding its compliance checks across the Asia-Pacific region's network registries.
WorldLink Communications deployed IPv6 to one million broadband subscribers in Nepal over seven years. A major outage revealed that IPv6 in production is not a protocol upgrade—it is a subscriber-management, CPE interoperability, and observability project.
A pair of agreements linking subsea and terrestrial fiber infrastructure aims to create an alternative data path from the Arabian Gulf toward Europe, reducing reliance on Red Sea transit and supporting hyperscaler growth across the Middle East.
A Singapore-based infrastructure venture and Japan's NTT Ltd. have signed a non-binding letter of intent to build a regional subsea cable system connecting GPU compute centers across Malaysia, Vietnam, and Thailand to Singapore's AI hub.
Cloudflare has overhauled its real-time Internet trends platform to make global network data accessible to journalists, policymakers and general audiences while maintaining technical depth for specialists.
The interconnection database has expanded its API query builder to Advanced Search, added interactive facility maps, and simplified its deployment process after testing showed the public beta stage was no longer necessary.
