Dave Webb

The players are at the table, and there are a couple of surprising faces looking to be dealt into Industry Canada's advanced wireless spectrum (AWS) auction. Last week, Industry Canada released a list of the companies who had filed a deposit in order to participate in the 2.4 GHz spectrum auction, scheduled for this May. At the end of March, Industry Canada will announce who among the applicants qualifies to bid.

While the industry was debating whether spectrum should be set aside for new entrants in the upcoming AWS auction, Michael Kedar was arguing we should preserve some for other applications

The mix of players large and small include expected entrants like MTS Allstream but also surprises like Shaw Communications. It will all make for an interesting auction, industry watchers say

The recent sale of Telecom Ottawa raises questions about the future of Toronto Hydro Telecom

Worldwide sales of carrier- and enterprise-grade routers and switches hit $11.2 billion in 2007

Virtualization security technology offers APIs for building security products with visibility into virtual machines, VMware says

The equity-backed company's purchase makes Toronto Hydro Telecom's value about $200 million, according to one industry watcher -- if the City decides to sell

Version 3 of RecoverPoint allows simultaneous CDP and replication on the same production environment; the new DLm scales to half a petabyte of virtual tape storage