IXIA has just released its 2018 security report.In our increasingly digital and connected world, security is an ever-present challenge. Human ingenuity and creativity drive both the solutions we develop and the threats we face. For that reason, we must continue to push forward and implement solutions that are continuous and resilient, stress detect...

Today's telecommunications and contact center infrastructures have become extremely complex. As you know the design and the reliability of these infrastructures is critical to delivering the level of customer service your client demands. So whether you are installing a new contact center solution or upgrading an existing solution, you want to make ...

After ransomware attacks crippled public transportation systems, hospitals and city governments over the past two years, 2018 seems poised to be another wildly successful year for attackers who use this threat, which netted criminals more than $1 billion in 2016, according to the FBI. And a recent spate of ransomware infections impacting Boeing, th...

Canadian quad-play operator Rogers Communications reported total revenue up 8% year-on-year to CAD3.633 billion (USD2.876 billion) in the three months ended 31 March 2018. Cable revenue increased 1% to CAD969 million in Q1 2018 as internet revenue growth of 7% continued to drive the segment. The company highlighted the availability of its Ignite Gi...

Precision time can play a vital role in improving the operation and efficiency of Big Data systems. However, to understand why or how time can be utilized, the most important thing to understand is that – Big Data is Big! I know that may sound silly, but really, "big" is actually even an understatement. And that's the difficult part to grasp when t...

Canada's Rogers Communications has announced a multi-year mobile network technology development plan in partnership with Ericsson, including 5G tests. Under the plan, Rogers will continue to roll out a Gigabit LTEnetwork based on technology including 4×4 MIMO, four-carrier aggregation and 256 QAM, and will boost and densify its network with small c...

Cloud computing allows organizations to perform tasks or use applications that harness massive third-party computing and processing power via the Internet. This allows them to quickly scale services and applications to meet changing user demand and avoid purchasing network assets for infrequent, intensive computing tasks. At the outset cloud comput...

Bell Canada has announced that its fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network now covers 'most homes and business locations' throughout Toronto, the country's most populous city. Bell commenced the Toronto FTTP project in 2015, partnering the city authorities and Toronto Hydro to deploy over 10,000km of fibre, mounted on approximately 90,000 Bell and Tor...

Canada's Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development yesterday (28 March 2018) published a framework for the auction of 600MHz mobile spectrum licences, setting aside 43% of the frequencies on offer for regional competitors (i.e. existing cellcos other than the nationwide 'big three' Bell, Rogers and Telus) and potential new market ent...

 A major issue with moving to e-contact centre is to make everything work together. As you purchased multiple best in class single solutions as you put this together you may not end up with a best in class total solution.  Another issue is turning unstructured data, comments from social media platforms – into actionable outcomes...

The Government of Canada, along with the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, has announced the country's first major public-private partnership aimed at increasing economic growth driven by 5G technology, led by five digital technology heavyweights – Ericsson, Ciena Canada, Thales Canada, IBM Canada and CGI. The CAD400 million (USD306 million) project...

In 2013, the Federal Communications Commission fined a person almost $32k for using a device intended to evade the fleet management tracking system on his company vehicle. The device in question: a GPS jammer. The incident occurred at the Newark Airport after FAA and NJ Port Authority officials struggled for over two years to determine why the new ...

Organisations are caught in a constant cycle of deploying new services, supporting new use cases, and managing growth - which results in networks that are always trying to get back to a reliable state before the next round of changes hit As a result of the network always changing there are now more monitoring, visibility, and security tools in use ...

Privately-held Canadian cableco and mobile operator Eastlink has expanded its commercial LTE network coverage to Saint John in the Atlantic province of New Brunswick, aiming to challenge national operators Bell, Rogers and Telus with its offer to buy out mobile users' existing contracts. Other key features of Eastlink's 4G mobile offerings include ...

Networking is changing rapidly, speed and bandwidth requirements have grown exponentially, new traffic types appear daily, and now a functioning network is a crucial and necessary part of running a successful large or small business in any market. You are expected to provide critical business applications in a secure, always-up network environment....

Bell Canada has announced successful TD-LTE 'wireless-to-the-home' (WTTH) trials in the 3.5GHz and 28GHz spectrum bands utilising Huawei's 5G-oriented Massive MIMO and 8T8R technology. The trials were conducted in the small Ontario communities of Orangeville, Feversham and Bethany to test and refine the capabilities of WTTHservices for rural areas....

Every day we hear of security breaches, which damages the company brand and reputation.  At the present time the advantage has been with the attacker and the CISO is now expected to provide meaningful and actionable security intelligence to board members. So how can CISOs train tomorrow's security executives when today's well-known securi...

What is Threat Hunting Whether the process is called threat hunting, cyber hunting or cyber threat hunting, each term essentially means the same thing: security professionals look for threats that are already in their organization's IT environment. This differs from penetration or pen testing, which looks for vulnerabilities that an attacker could ...

Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) has posted a 4.6% rise in annual revenues to CAD22.719 billion (USD18.060 billion) for 2017, whilst the group's twelve-month EBITDA climbed 4.4% to CAD9.178 billion. CAPEX in FY 2017 was 7.0% lower than in 2016, at CAD4.034 billion, whilst BCE's annual net profit attributable to shareholders reached CAD2.786 billion, d...

Do you have to give up on network availability when deploying your inline security tools? By using a iBypass switch "YOU DON'T HAVE TO CHOOSE"  When a network monitoring device such as an IPS is deployed inline in a network, it is vital to ensure that traffic continues to flow in all circumstances, even if the IPS loses power, so that mission-...