Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Videoconferencing in Canada: The 3 biggest barriers More than 150 network administrators and other IT decision-makers responded to our online survey about creating face-to-face meetings via technology. These are the dealbreakers the industry must overcome 
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Feds to review CRTC’s 'metered Internet' ruling The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s decision to force independent ISPs to move to usage-based billing has been criticized by thousands of Canadians, including PM Stephen Harper. Why one online activist and Liberal MP Marc Garneau both say its too early to start the parade
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
IT's biggest money wasters Though there's no one-click solution to any of these money wasters, there are ways you can stanch the flow of dollars and use it on the items that will make your IT organization shine. Here are the secrets
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Social media sucks bandwidth, but cache can help YouTube is taking up 10 per cent of corporate bandwidth, followed by Facebook, according to stats from Network Box. SuperLumin says its specialized social media cache can help
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Round Table: 2009 in the rearview mirror, Pt. 3 In Part 3 of our end-of-year editorial round table discussion, IT World Canada staff ponder Cisco's agenda
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Are YouTube and Facebook guzzling your firm's bandwidth? A service provider finds 21.5 per cent of its pipes are being consumed by a handful of sites
Monday, October 05, 2009
Cheaper desktop videoconferencing HP’s SkyRoom videoconferencing software targets widespread enterprise use by accommodating standard business networks. Analysts comment on the impact Cisco’s acquisition of Tandberg might have on HP’s plans
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Bullet-point brief: Ian Collins, Cogeco Data Services The company formerly known as Toronto Hydro Telecom is aggressively targeting IT professionals with its managed services. The acting president explains the service provider’s strategy
Monday, February 16, 2009
Social, recreational apps devouring enterprise bandwidth Web 2.0 applications such as YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn are chomping away at 40 per cent of enterprise network bandwidth, according to IT managers 
Monday, February 16, 2009
IT managers face “application anarchy” that eats bandwidth Nearly 40 per cent of enterprise network bandwidth is consumed by recreational or non-business critical applications, says UK survey.
Sunday, February 08, 2009
Blue Coat advances integration with Packeteer gear The application acceleration vendor is upgrading its software to allow traffic shaping products to share information about data flows and application performance.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Microsoft ships Silverlight 2.0 The RIA developer tool includes adaptive video streaming capability and support for networks such as DoubleClick. IDC’s Kevin Restivo sizes up Adobe
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Spam fighters adopt software-as-a-service model The Societe de développement des entreprises culturelles works with Montreal-based Zerospam to eliminate unsolicited commercial e-mail messages. Why on-demand works better
Thursday, August 14, 2008
One size fits all for WAN acceleration: Expand The ability to offer higher-spec hardware at a lower price is down to two factors - economies of scale, and the ability to limit the device's bandwidth via software, according to Expand Networks
Thursday, June 12, 2008
XO to demonstrate 100 Gigabit Ethernet service The key to sending and receiving 100GbE signals smoothly over multiple 10Gbps wavelengths is using Infinera's Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC)-enabled DTN system 
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Nortel partners testing 40Gbps-plus technology on existing infrastructure Select providers testing what Nortel says is the industry's first optical technology that can deliver both 40G and 100G network capacity over existing infrastructure
Sunday, March 09, 2008
How to starve the bandwidth hogs GigaFin has added administrator software to its network appliances which lets IT departments limit or block traffic to specific users. This is designed to give critical applications the bandwidth they need
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Open Text addresses Unix bandwidth challenges ExceedFreedom lets remote workers access the same application via a shared screen. The vendor says it can cut response times by a factor of 100
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Sweden charges pirate Web site operators Sweden will demand four people who run a site that allegedly distributes illegal music, movies and software forfeit the equivalent of US$190,000 
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Wasted network spending estimate tops US$130B An analyst with the Canadian arm of research firm Gartner Inc. says throwing away money on IP phones with small monitors and pricey GigE switches. How to start buying in order to save
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Six quizzical VoIP issues Canadian governments and other public sector agencies have identified VoIP as one of the most useful technologies to help them meet the high expectation for citizen service. VoIP may be hot, but all that heat can raise some issues. We resolve to answer some of the more pressing questions you might be facing.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Transportation authority speeds up WAN with Silver Peak accelerator Sound Transit in Seattle unclogged slow WAN links that hindered railway-improvement projects by using WAN-optimization gear that made traffic run faster and cost much less over time than other options.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Virgin scores with VoIP Like many distributed businesses, Virgin is consolidating voice and data traffic onto one IP network to save costs. The company is also using its WAN as a tool for delivering digital content, such as music clips and video, to kiosks in the stores, as well as multimedia content to digital displays and screens. 
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Local access nets must stay neutral Net Neutrality, a hot topic south of the border, but, until now, mostly dormant in Canada, has raised its ugly head recently. The president of Quebec-based cable giant Videotron, Robert Depatie, recently brought up the idea of a transmission tariff that could be imposed on Internet content providers for the right to transmit content to ISP subscribers.
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Neutral on neutrality When I started to pen this column on network neutrality -- the notion that all content on the Internet should continue to be treated equally -- I thought I was on the side of grassroots coalitions like Save the Internet and Hands off the Internet.