Canadian rural fixed-wireless broadband operator Xplornet yesterday revealed that it will launch 4G LTE mobile network services in Manitoba this autumn under the Xplore Mobile brand. Xplornet obtained mobile 700MHz/1700MHz/2500MHz frequencies for the province in March 2017 in a windfall from Bell Canada's takeover of Manitoba Telecom Services, unde...

Organizations typically consider two figures when attempting to calculate the cost of a ransomware attack: the ransom demand and the cost of recovering data. But more goes into restoring a system than those two factors, judging from the recovery efforts organizations mounted following recent ransomware attacks. Temporary staff increases, consu...

When we talk about the business value of a tool or a system that (at first point) may seem like a "nice to have" or "helpful but not absolutely necessary" technology or system, it is good idea to start this discussion by putting some things in perspective. Business in this day and age depend on ensuring (at least) confidentiality, integrity and ava...

How well does your company communicate internally? Specifically, how well do your IT departments communicate with each other? Enterprises typically contain four or more IT sub departments (Security, Network Operations, Virtual DC, Capacity Planning, Service Desk, Compliance, etc.) and it's quite common for them to be at odds with each other, even i...

Everything happening on the network is time sensitive, that's why timestamps are extremely important when we're talking about packet capture and analysis. This feature can not only prevent and analyze cyber attacks, but it can also allow you to examine trends and network latency.  Network packet timestamping can be used to investigate various ...

It's quite easy to overlook the Domain Name System (DNS) and the critical role it plays across the internet and in local intranets. This is largely because, despite our everyday reliance on DNS, it is basically transparent to users and it's taken for granted that it will just work. When an ordinary person opens a web browser and types in something ...

The last decade has brought a paradigm shift in computing systems from single processor devices whose performance plateaued to distributed computing systems. In distributed systems, nodes execute concurrently with limited information about what the other nodes are executing at the moment. Thus, a fundamental problem in distributed sy...

Solution Strengths comprehensive solution for Configuration, Performance and Fault Management unified code base eliminates need for fault prone module/product integration ultra scalable architecture, nothing gets added that could impact scalability End-to-End awareness delivers automated dependencies, root cause and delivers massive automation benefits ROI in months, not years A truly ‘‘VendorAgnostic“ Solution supports many different network hardware manufacturers, including Cisco, Huawei, Juni...

Mike Penacchi shows us how to use the SPAN mode of the ProfiShark while determining and comparing the latency introduced by a Microtik configured to use NAT; determining the latency that a device adds to the network can be difficult. In this video, Mike with Network Protocol Specialists, LLC; shows how the ProfiShark can be used to a...

According to research conducted by Enterprise Management Associates in October of 2016, 41% of IT personnel spend over 50% of their time working on network and application performance problems. Additional research cited by ExtraHop shows that tactical network data loses 70% of its value after 30 minutes. This makes the speed and accuracy of monitor...

​ Customers are the lifeblood of any business, and for many companies, your contact centre is the front line for interacting with these customers.Despite the importance, few companies have a comprehensive disaster recovery and business continuity plan in place for their contact centre. Many back-office functions can be performed by employees from t...

Ransomware continues to garner headlines. However, this particular blight appears to be abating. Since 2015, the number of ransomware families and variants has decreased by about 50 percent. For organizations fighting this threat, this means that ransomware is no longer the in vogue malware.At the height of ransomware attacks in 2015, anyone who wa...

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...

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...

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...