​The Internet of Things, commonly known as IoT, is no longer the "next big thing". In the last two decades, the technology has evolved massively transforming the industrial and manufacturing operations. But there are also other hot topics that are just as prevalent, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Industry 4.0. Chances are that you mig...

​Canada's Competition Bureau has published a submission to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC's) mobile market review, in which it says consumers could save substantially on their wireless bills if major national cellcos Bell, Rogers and Telus were faced with more competition from regional carriers like Freedom Mo...

​Date: Thursday December 5th, 2019 Time: 2 pm EST  Join us for an in-depth look at how NMSaaS is empowering Service Providers and Enterprises to fulfill the promise of IoT data. For years IoT has been the "next thing", but until very recently real use cases have been few and far between.Now, NMSaaS can show you how we are delivering real,...

In my 20+ years career, I've worked with two types of technologies. Those that took extensive marketing efforts to communicate their value and failed to deliver it, as well as technologies that proved themselves quickly during a single day. Network performance monitoring using flow data is the second case. In this post, I share my experience with N...

​Network cybersecurity is top of mind these days for both government agencies and commercial enterprise. As the heart of network synchronization, time and frequency systems should include a standard suite of security features that give network administrators confidence in the cybersecurity protocols of their time servers. This is our philosophy at ...

​IT managers and engineers are constantly challenged to maintain application performance, stay ahead of security breaches and resolve complex network problems. Two of the more powerful data sources available today are NetFlow (IPFIX) and packet data, which have been helping network and security teams gain clear visibility into the network for years...

Update Files for SecureSync/NetClock 9400 to version 5.8.6 The following files, corresponding to version 5.8.6, are available for download here: the software update file, the update instructions for SecureSync, update instructions for NetClock 9400, release notes for SecureSync and release notes for NetClock 9400. If you have been instructed to "cl...

​Cubic Telecom and Rogers Communications have teamed up to provide connected car services for Canadians, integrating Cubic's PACE (Platform for Application and Connectivity Enablement) and connected vehicle solution with Rogers' nationwide mobile network, with coverage also provided in the US via roaming. Rogers says it is able to support seamless ...

​Turn on any "techy" TV show or movie these days and you are bound to see some reference to hackers trying to break into corporate or government networks by breaching firewalls. While many of the scenarios are unrealistic as they are portrayed onscreen, the real-life battle between security vendors and hackers does go on. In their effort to defeat ...

​Security is a big concern for every business and yet high-profile breaches continue to hit the headlines. This shows hackers will find a way through the most robust security measures if the prize is lucrative enough.  Preventative security in-depth isn't enough to save you, your data or your reputation. Did you know that organizations current...

​I ran across an interesting statistic a couple weeks ago. According to a Ponemon Institute, report titled "The State of Cybersecurity in the Oil & Gas Industry", 68 percent of security and risk managers reported losing confidential information or experiencing disruption over the previous year. The existence of security breaches for the last fi...

​The recently released 2019 State of the Cloud report by RightScale found that 58% of 800 technical professionals surveyed use a hybrid strategy [1]. Combining on-premises, virtual, and cloud-based resources offers great flexibility, but managing hybrid IT is also more complex. IT teams need new strategies to monitor their hybrid infrastructure eff...

​Network experts already know that distributing the correct time is key to maintaining their critical infrastructure programs. However, keeping accurate time is also fundamental to many cybersecurity applications. Certificates have an expiration date attached to them, and system logs frequently contain time stamps that operators rely on for diagnos...

How do you ensure maximum service availability while protecting and securing your enterprise? IT departments have been wrestling with this problem for years. Virtualization and mobility are expanding the traditional network boundary, which means data and assets no longer sit in a single location behind a firewall.  Network security monitoring ...

​Why This Case Study is Relevant It demonstrates the importance of installing anti-jam and anti-spoofing software. Background  ​A major international financial services provider was experiencing issues in their lab environment with its GNSS-based timing systems. GNSS reception was being intermittently lost and the customer didn't know why. Rat...

​Canada's leading rural fixed-wireless broadband provider Xplornet Communications has announced an initiative to deploy '5G-ready' 100Mbps services to an additional 80,000 rural homes and businesses in Eastern Ontario, supported by rollout of over 600km of fibre infrastructure. Assisted by a contribution of up to CAD16 million (USD12.2 million) fro...

When: Thursday, September 12, 2019  ​At: 1:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time Join John Fischer, Omer Sharar, and John Pottle as they describe common threats rot GPS/GNSS signals as well as solutions to detect and mitigate interference such as jamming and spoofing for critical systems. You'll hear from industry experts who will present commercial and...

​Each of us has sat in standstill traffic, trying to understand why this major highway we drive all the time has suddenly backed up, with our phone maps application showing a line of red for the next mile or two. As we crawl towards the bottleneck, we see it: A fender bender with dented cars still blocking a lane of traffic. We see police on the sc...

Continuing our focus on the challenge of performance monitoring in the Cloud, David Hock, Director of Research at Infosim, discusses their approach to "Multi-Cloud Monitoring." We interviewed David Hock and this is what he had to say. ​You discuss Multi-Cloud monitoring, what do you mean by that term? Sourcing of services from different Cloud servi...

Monitoring tools have always been critical for ensuring network performance and security. Top vendors have designed new tools specifically for monitoring networks with virtualization, cloud infrastructure, distributed data centers, and edge computing. Way back in 2016, Enterprise Management Associates found that 24% of enterprises used 6-10 monitor...