Canadian far north network operator Ice Wireless has launched LTE-based mobile services in Quaqtaq in Nunavik, Nunatsiaq News reports. Ice, which already operates 3G/4G cellular services in Nunavik capital Iqaluit, plans to extend mobile voice and broadband data services throughout the remote region with national and international roaming, in colla...

In its 2019 budget, Canada's federal government has committed to offering 95% of homes and businesses internet access at download/upload speeds of at least 50Mbps/10Mbps by 2026, rising to 100% by 2030, in line with targets of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). The government estimates that by 2021 around 90% of...

​The IT role is extremely hard today. Whether you are part of the DevOps or SecOps team makes no difference - threats and problems are a daily, if not hourly, occurrence. What you need is good quality data as fast as you can get it to counter security threats, troubleshoot network outages, and remediate performance problems. Unfortunately, IT ...

One of the most common forms of network threats today is distributed denial of service (DDoS). An attack involves flooding networks and servers with false internet traffic, thereby blocking access to genuine devices. Sometimes used to target specific businesses, cyber-attacks can bring down entire telecoms networks, as was the case in the attack on...

Canada's leading rural fixed-wireless broadband provider Xplornet Communications has announced that it will invest over CAD500 million (USD375 million) in five years to deliver hybrid fibre-wireless 5G services 'nationally to rural Canadians', enabled by the federal government's Accelerated Investment Incentive. CEO Allison Lenehan stated that Xplo...

​Cyber defenses encrypt data to keep it safe while hackers encrypt malware to sneak threats onto your network. A new report from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) says enterprises see the new Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 encryption standards as offering greater privacy and security—over 70 percent of respondents have or will start enabli...

 Shaw Business – part of cableco Shaw Communications – announced on 7 March 2019 the availability of 1Gbps (download) internet speeds for B2B customers across Western Canada alongside upload speeds of up to 125Mbps 'in select areas'. In addition, from the same date business customers on eligible Shaw Business Internet and SmartWiFi 150 and 300...

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 O...

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has launched a review to examine the state of the mobile market and whether further action is required to improve choice and affordability for Canadians. The CRTC is also seeking comments on its preliminary view that MVNOs should have mandated access to the networks of the natio...

​Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) reported that its operating revenue was up 3.0% in Q4 2018 to CAD6.215 billion (USD4.680 billion), driven by a 1.5% increase in service revenue to CAD5.231 billion that reflected year-on-year growth for all Bell operating segments. Product revenue increased 11.3% to CAD984 million, the result of a higher sales mix of ...

PresenTense offers you an alternative to the limited functionality of synchronizing with Microsoft W32Time program. PresenTense, will not only synchronize all of the Windows PCs on the network, but also provides alert notification and a audit trail which is  not available from the Microsoft W32Time (Windows Time Service). PresenTense Client an...

Canadian cableco Shaw Communications has completed a fibre-optic transport network upgrade involving deployment of the Fujitsu 1FINITY platform and Virtuora Network Control software, enabling significant capacity expansion and software-defined network control capability, network planning and design, network management, as well as service fulfillmen...

 Bypass Risk.  Save time an Money Your businesses continue to invest in advanced security defenses, like next-generation firewalls and intrusion prevention systems (NGFW and NGIPS), data loss prevention (DLP), and other inline tools. These tools can significantly strengthen security, but may also add complexity, operational cost, and...

Canadian quad-play operator Rogers Communications posted a 6% year-on-year increase in total revenue for the three months ending 31 December 2018 to CAD3.94 billion (USD2.95 billion), up from CAD3.73 billion in the same period of 2017. Underlying mobile revenue climbed 8% – driven chiefly by mobile data demand monetisation – and fixed broadband int...

 What is a Network Packet Broker? A Network Packet Broker (NPB) is a switch-like network device ranging in size from portables devices to 1 and 2 RU units, up to massive chassis and blade systems. Unlike a switch, a Network Packet Broker does not alter the traffic passing through it in any way unless specifically instructed to do so. An NPB ca...

Date: January 31st, 2019  Time: 4:00 pm (GMT +1)  Join Rinat Bedretdinov, Senior Engineer at CROC, and Dmitry Scherbakov, Regional Presales Manager at Infosim®, for a glistening webinar on how our Unified Network and Services Management solution StableNet® can make your business shine.We will illustrate how one of the global top gold prod...

​In the webinar above,the concept of network security resilience and how to implement it is explained. However, successful implementation relies upon making the fundamental mind shift to the strategy. One cannot expect to see the benefits if they don't embrace change. ​However, change is easier said than done. It seems like many security engineers,...

 In today's digital economy, network performance often determines business performance. Unfortunately, many network managers lack the right tools to manage performance. They have an incomplete picture, especially as networks scale and grow in complexity and applications migrate to the cloud. Monitoring service health and network availability i...

The last part of everything is always hard, they say. I suppose it has to do with having to let go. And, in my case, with deciding what to write about or what's the best way to end the series. Lately I've been reading a lot about cybersecurity, and how it affects everybody, on a personal and a professional level. That's how the idea for this last e...

In 2013, in a legal case that sent waves through the IT industry, Sears Holding Corp. filed lawsuits against two IT vendors involved in maintaining and providing equipment for the company's data center. Sears alleged that, as a result of multiple power outages and ongoing issues, the company had lost an estimated $2.2 million in profits and another...