PacketPushers Greg Ferro and Ethan Banks bring their irreverent approach to networking to this podcast. This podcast covers how to access packet data in the cloud for security and monitoring. Just as north-south network traffic has given way to east-west network traffic, the traditional data center is yielding to the cloud. While this shift ha...

NetFort LANGuardian 14.3 adds GEO IP Database and Improves Performance of Data Acquisition, Reporting and Alerting Last week,  NetFort  announced the latest version of LANGuardian , its flagship network traffic and security monitoring software. This new release introduces significant feature and performance enhancements, and delivers...

Sapling is proud to introduce our newest synchronized clock system - Sapling Wi-Fi Clocks . The Sapling Wi-Fi Clock System seamlessly interfaces with a facility’s existing Wi-Fi infrastructure, eliminating the need for a master clock and running wires between clocks. In addition, this new line offers versatile installation solutions and features.&n...

PacketViper customers can build a Virtual Minefield Zone (VMZ) to create a nearly impenetrable network perimeter, and also enforce penalties instantly for any connections falling outside of your defined network guidelines. The VMZ leverages the administrator's advantage, which is the intimate knowledge of their network infrastructure. We then use t...

The Canadian telecoms ministry – Innovation, Science & Economic Development Canada (ISED) – has launched a consultation on a licensing framework for the auction of mobile spectrum licences in the 614MHz-698MHz (600MHz) band, aiming to boost competition, investment and business opportunities in all regions of the country. Interested parties – in...

In 2017, any drop in your network's performance will affect your enterprise's overall productivity. Ensuring the optimal performance of your network, in turn, requires sophisticated network performance monitoring. Through exceptional reporting and optimization, a high-quality network performance monitoring service can ensure that every aspect of yo...

There once existed vast unexplored areas of the oceans that in apocryphal sea charts were marked off and labeled 'Here be Dragons'; meaning no-one knew what was there, but the suspicion was, it couldn't be good.  The last couple weeks, there's talk of dragons of a different hue – for Game of Thrones fans; as the 7th season premiered ...

Please join John Olson, NetFlow Auditor, for their latest webinar  of  Five 'Hidden Gem' NetFlow Reports to Discover Suspicious Behavior  The true value in any NetFlow solution is its capacity to provide granular, accurate, data-driven network intelligence at the click of a mouse.  NetFlow Auditor provides hundreds of pre-built ...

Canadian carrier Telus has revealed that its recently-launched 'Quad-Band LTE' – four-carrier aggregation (4C) LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) – high speed mobile data services have been expanded to cover 38 markets across eight provinces, mirroring a previous announcement from rival Bell Canada, with which Telus has nationwide joint network investment/sharin...

 Viavi Solutions today released the results of its 10th annual State of the Network global study, which focuses on the growing issue of security threats. Now available for download, respondents included 1,035 CIOs, IT directors, and network engineers. "Enterprise network teams are expending more time and resources than ever before to battle se...

Enabling data-driven insight and holistic visibility Perhaps the central challenge as the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes a driving force in the worldwide economy is enabling secure, manageable, seamless connectivity across diverse things, protocols, systems, and infrastructures. The difficulties and risks are similar for organizations from s...

Cloud computing has become the de facto foundation for digital business. As more and more enterprises move critical workloads to private and public clouds, they will face new challenges ensuring security, reliability, and performance of these workloads. If you are responsible for IT security, data center operations, or application performance, make...

Bell Canada has announced that its quad-band (four-band carrier aggregation) LTE Advanced (LTE-A) network with theoretical download speeds of up to 750Mbps is now available in nearly 40 cities/communities in eight provinces across Canada. Bell began deploying the advanced 750Mbps-capable network configuration, supported by 256QAM technology, in Apr...

Canadian major telco Telus Communications has purchased Raftview Communications, a local cable TV and telecoms network operator in Clearwater and Barriere in the province of British Columbia. Paul Caissie, the owner of Raftview, which has been in business for 30 years, said of the takeover: 'We feel the time is right to transition our business for ...

Petya \ GoldenEye encrypts entire disks  A new variant of Petya ransomware, also known as Petrwrap, NotPetya, or GoldenEye, is spreading rapidly with the help of the same Windows SMBv1 vulnerability that the WannaCry ransomware abused to infect 300,000 systems and servers worldwide in just 72 hours. Petya ransomware has been delivered via phis...

 Orolia announces integration of its Spectracom SecureSync with Talen-X's BroadShield Interference and Spoofing Detection technology. Through the strategic partnership with Talen-X, Orolia is now able to provide improved protection against emerging GPS threats in their Spectracom brand of products, including the SecureSync precision time and f...

Canadian provincial full-service operator SaskTel has announced that its 'infiNET' branded fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) broadband network services are available to more than 200,000 homes and businesses throughout Saskatchewan. In a deployment beginning in 2011, SaskTel has now completed infiNET rollout in Estevan, Moose Jaw, Prince Albert, Swift C...

Canadian operator Telus and Chinese technology partner Huawei have claimed a 'significant breakthrough' with a successful 5G pilot of live point-to-multipoint (P2MP) connections over commercial central office and transport network infrastructure using equipment based on 3GPP 5G foundational technologies, utilising 28GHz band frequencies. A press re...

Tenth Annual "State of the Network" Global Survey from Viavi Reveals Network and Security Trends from over 1,000 Network Professionals  In April 2017, Viavi Solutions (NASDAQ: VIAV) released the results of its tenth annual State of the Network global study today. This year's study focused on security threats, perhaps explaining why it gar...

 It is really next to impossible to avoid hearing about how "The Cloud" is transforming business everywhere. Well-known technology companies from the old guard like IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, and Adobe, to established tech powerhouses Google and Amazon, to pretty much every new hot startup like Cloudera are all promoting how they are using the cl...