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...

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 ...

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 ...

Canadian quad-play cableco and mobile group Shaw Communications has reported its consolidated financial results for its fiscal fourth quarter and year ended 31 August 2017. Revenue from continuing operations of CAD1.24 billion (USD968 million) for the quarter and CAD4.88 billion for the year increased by 2.6% and 8.1%, respectively, over the compar...

The unprecedented complexity of IoT is bringing together a universe of "things" that were not designed to work together or share data. Data is increasing exponentially. Competitive edge often depends on getting new services to market quickly. New management systems can take years to roll out.  Now there's StableNet® — an innovative, flexible p...

 Infosim® together with University of Würzburg, TU Munich & genua mbH Key Learning Objectives  ​The SarDiNe Research Project Fine-grained Access Control in SDN Networks Resiliency and Offloading for a Firewall Virtual Network Function SDN/NFV & Cloud managed by StableNet® The ever-increasing number and complexity of cybe...

Telnet Networks is pleased to notify you of the availability of a new version of software for Spectracom's SecureSync and NetClock 9400 series synchronization systems.  Download the V5.7.1 release below featuring: ​The Talen-X BroadShield feature requiring license SS-OPT-BSH. This optional functionality offers spoofing and jamming protection a...

NetFlow is a handy tool in the daily work of Network Admins and Analysts. It can be used to measure traffic in networks from an End-to-End perspective, and allows the filtering by several types of data: ​Time Source/destination IP Source/destination port numbers (at least for UDP and TCP) Ingress interface SNMP ifIndex TOS informatio...

New Observer Apex offers faster loading speeds, connection dynamics functionality for packet visibility, on-demand application dependency mapping (ADM), improved widget editor for faster insights, VoIP service-level agreement assurance based on threshold monitoring, faster alarms, and more. On-Demand ADM On-demand ADM offers fast discovery of appli...