The bulletin
What we're reading and thinking about: office network hardware, lifecycle, operations and EU digital policy.
Satellite links are becoming the standard backup for offices, and today that means one provider. Europe is building its own constellation, IRIS². Here is what is real now, what arrives in 2029, and what it means for your sites.
Read →Three developments from Brussels this quarter that touch companies far outside the tech sector: AI Act transparency duties now in force, 'chat control' still unresolved, and an EU-wide age limit for social media on the table.
Read →NIS2 is not a network project, but a large part of the evidence auditors and insurers ask for lives in the network. Here is what they will want to see, and what 'having it' looks like in practice.
Read →The Aironet 2800 series stops receiving security fixes in 2027. Here is what that means for an office Wi-Fi fleet, and the three realistic paths forward — with the trade-offs of each.
Read →Where your network's management tooling runs matters more than where your network is. Here is how we think about it, what it costs us, and where the limits are.
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