In a recent webinar, Best Practices for Security Resilience, Jon Oltsik (an analyst from ESG Research Group) and I discussed the topic of network security resilience. The basic concept is that it is not a question of "IF" your company network will be breached, but "WHEN". The real question for you to answer is, "How painful do you want that breach ...

​Growing traffic volume is a challenge for NetOps and SecOps as they work to ensure high-quality network performance and network security. As traffic volume exceeds a monitoring tool's capacity, congestion at the data port can cause a tool to slow down, start dropping packets, or even stop working altogether. While you wait for budget approval to a...

In today's modern networking infrastructure, great care is taken to ensure that networks are reliable, highly available and most of all, secure. Cybersecurity has emerged as a critical area in all facets of the internet. It's an area that companies spend millions on each year. Yet still, there are often-overlooked areas that degrade security. One e...

​Quebec-based cableco and mobile operator Videotron and its partners in the Open-Air Laboratory for Smart Living (LabVI) have announced that a 5G testing site is now live in Montreal's Quartier de l'innovation using Ericsson equipment, reports MobileSyrup. The site – utilizing an existing 4G LTE site on the roof of the Ecole de Technologie Superieu...

Canadian full-service operator Telus has bought Axia's residential internet services in rural Alberta from Bell Canada, reports VulcanAdvocate.com. Bell purchased Calgary-based Axia's network assets in September last year, and the transaction with Telus follows a 31 March agreement to sell Axia's residential fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) operations,...

Network requirements are constantly changing in enterprises. The network goal of every enterprise is to be more efficient and cost-effective while embracing the changes. There are several network visibility solutions/vendors available in the market. However, each network has a different requirement and not solutions fit every network architecture. ...

​Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) posted total revenue of CAD5.734 billion (USD4.262 billion)) for the three months ended 31 March 2019, up 2.6% compared to the same period of last year. First-quarter service revenue grew 1.6% to CAD5.045 billion and product revenue increased 10.1% to CAD689 million, reflecting increases at both wireless and wireline ...

Two common methods to copy traffic to your monitoring or security tools is a Span port or network tap. Span can be convenient for quick troubleshooting, remote locations or when you do not have access to the physical infrastructure. The risk of using a span port is that It can be over subscribed, and the lowest priority when it comes to forwarding ...

Welcome to the third annual Security Report issued by Ixia, a Keysight business. Each year, the Ixia Application and Threat Intelligence (ATI) Research Centre summarizes the most interesting and prominent internet security trends. We analyze ATI data to help organizations understand where they can improve. We also analyze the data to predict the bi...

Canada's leading rural fixed-wireless broadband provider Xplornet has signed a 15-year contract valued at over USD250 million for 50Gbps of Ka-band capacity on the EchoStar XXIV satellite due to be launched by US-based Hughes Network Systems in 2021, to support high speed broadband reaching over 90% of Canadians. According to Hughes' press release,...

 OCT 7-10 2019 Telnet Networks and InfoSim are proud sponsors this year of Canada's largest IT Security Conference, SecTor. SecTor2019 takes place in the South Building of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (MTCC) on October 9 and 10, with the newly extended two-day training on October 7 and 8. As you continue to deploy new technology such as...

​Managing and troubleshooting applications or APM is a key reality for managing your network today. APM is understanding the application response time. In reality, there is a lot more that goes into ensuring applications are delivered on-time and meeting user expectations. To understand application response time you need to measure, quantify, and r...

​Nova Scotia-based cableco and wireless operator Eastlink has announced its first mobile network service launch in western Canada, in Grande Prairie, Alberta. The move sees Eastlink enter its sixth Canadian province with mobile services, having launched its 4G LTE network in 2013 in Nova Scotia, before expanding to Prince Edward Island, Southeast O...

Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) is a set of standards defining mechanisms for the time-sensitive transmission of data over Ethernet networks. Deterministic communication is critical to multiple industries (Audio Video Bridging, Automotive, Industrial and Power automation, Mobile Fronthaul Networks). The purpose of this feature b...

Canada's auction of 600MHz spectrum concluded on 4 April, Navdeep Bains, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development has confirmed, with the sale process generating a total of CAD3.5 billion (USD2.6 billion) for the country's Consolidated Revenue Fund. 70MHz of spectrum was divided into 10MHz blocks in each service area, including ...

Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) is a set of standards  defining mechanisms for the time-sensitive transmission of data over Ethernet networks. Deterministic communication is critical to multiple industries (Audio Video Bridging, Automotive, Industrial and Power automation, Mobile Fronthaul Networks). The purpose of this feature brief...

The network edge is changing fast, and rapid change brings opportunity. With more applications and devices running at branch locations, performance monitoring and analysis must move closer to the customer - and so must visibility. Ixia's Vision E1S, the latest addition to their "Vision Edge" network packet broker (NPB) series, meets fast-growing de...

What do you do when all your network performance indicators are green, but users are still complaining?  IT teams are drowning in hundreds of measurements and metrics and according to Forrester Research, one-third of user complaints linger without resolution for a month or are never resolved.  We've been approaching network performance mo...

​Traffic monitoring is a must for IT administrators these days, and an integral part of most enterprise networks. There are many different approaches to getting visibility into the network, but using a TAP has proven to be the most accurate and reliable. Read more here about why a network TAP is better than a SPAN.  Among all these network har...

​Florida, US-based development and management company United American Corp has agreed to purchase Canada's TNW Wireless from Investel Capital Corporation Canada. TNW Wireless is licensed as a wholesale and retail wireless carrier in the Northwest of Canada, where it holds 25MHz of 'tier-2' 850MHz band spectrum licences, and also owns proprietary 'i...