Stefan Dubowski

Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

Take four carriers. Divide their offerings among the numerous departments you'd find in an organization. Subdivide the offerings into 450 invoices. Subtract one carrier. Add another. What's left? Either a potential telecom billing mess or the communications situation at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN), which isn't the disaster that it could be.

Undertaking an enterprise access management project can be so complicated that the IT manager might be hard pressed to remember his own name at the end of it all. But NetScreen Technologies Inc. says its new Instant Virtual Extranet (IVE) platform could help corporate technology leaders maintain their sanity.

Prairie price hike; A mighty VoP; So long, TDM

Bell Canada says the government should stop regulating its business in "the highly competitive market for high-speed, fibre-based digital services" so customers can "realize the full benefits of competition, including market-driven prices."

A Montreal telecom equipment vendor says certain carriers and other network gear makers might have infringed its intellectual property rights, and the firm is prepared to go to court to set things straight.

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) changed its conflict-of-interest regulations to discourage insiders from winning CIRA contracts, but then went ahead and gave a $30,000 technology project to one of its own directors.

What with people using so many different kinds of technologies to access the corporate network these days, how does the enterprise create the right remote access infrastructure? A pair of net managers offer their opinions.