Networking

From the President & CEO: Cybera community update and look ahead

With so much going on within Cybera and our wider community, I wanted to pause to review what weโ€™ve accomplished in the latter quarter of 2023, and what we have planned for the year ahead. This past fall saw many big wins for Cybera and our community: the announcement that the Australian National Research and […]

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eduroam comes to the Calgary Airport

The Calgary Airport Authority has announced its launch of eduroam, the secure, global Wi-Fi roaming service for students and researchers. Post-secondary students, researchers, and faculty passing through the Calgary International Airport (YYC) now have access to the trusted and secure internet service. This represents the first airport in Alberta (and only the second in Canada)

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The trials, tribulations, and triumphs of a k-12 school network analyst

Chris Sluggett leads the talented and highly commended Technology Services team at Wolf Creek Public Schools, a school district covering rural communities north of Red Deer. The breadth of responsibility for his team โ€” from enabling online learning, to protecting student privacy, to keeping the lights on โ€” can be overwhelming to outsiders. But it

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Platform Innovation Centre becomes first innovation specific centre in Western Canada to offer eduroam

The Platform Innovation Centre (Platform Calgary) has become the first incubator and innovation specific space in Western Canada to offer eduroam (education roaming), a global internet access service for the higher education and research sector.ย  This means any staff or student from an eduroam-enabled institution (which includes thousands of research and education organizations from around

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Long awaited router change doubles Cyberaโ€™s network capacity

This summer, Cyberaโ€™s network team replaced our Calgary router (which had tirelessly served us and our members for over a decade) with a new one, effectively doubling our network capacity, increasing throughput, and creating a more orderly network system. But getting to this moment has been a looooong time coming. Our Calgary router has been

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Cybera unveils intrusion detection service for Alberta schools and smaller public institutions

Cybera is pleased to launch its third and final offering as part of the new suite of cybersecurity services recently announced for Albertaโ€™s research, education, and public sectors. Miridor is an intrusion detection system that gives organizations connected to Cyberaโ€™s network a simple โ€” but detailed โ€” overview of potential indicators of compromise on their

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Cybera launches three cybersecurity services for wider member community

To meet the growing cybersecurity threats faced by Albertaโ€™s research, education, and public sectors, Cybera is launching three new services this spring. The goal is toย provide members better insights, tools, and advice on how to detect and protect themselves from malicious activity.ย  The new services are: Threat Feed for Education โ€”ย A threat intelligence feed platform

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Canadaโ€™s NREN bolsters security with MANRS

The partners in Canadaโ€™s National Research and Education Network (NREN) are pleased to announce today that Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security, or MANRS, has been implemented on the majority of Canadaโ€™s research and education networks. Ninety-nine per cent of organizations connected to the NREN are nowย connected to a MANRS-compliant network. An industry-led initiative championed

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New report takes a comprehensive look at Albertaโ€™s internet gaps and opportunities

After a year of researching, Cybera (Albertaโ€™s not-for-profit technology accelerator) has unveiled a comprehensive update to its State of Alberta Digital Infrastructure Report. This timely analysis comes as internet connectivity and access to high-speed broadband have taken on heightened levels of importance in the province, due to COVID-19. The updated report, first published in 2014,

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Cybera has joined the NLNOG RING: a global tool for network testing (and debugging)

Last fall, Cybera joined the NLNOG RING, a global community of network operators that enables fast network debugging. The RING platform essentially provides a trusted network of virtual machines, allowing individual operators to quickly run tests and analyses to pinpoint routing issues. Cybera is one of only a handful of Canadian network operators that have

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Preparing your campus for internet-hungry visitors

In the midst of a pandemic, when in-person events have been indefinitely postponed, might seem like a strange time to be planning the IT logistics for large-crowd events. But this is also the perfect time for organizations โ€” particularly ones that normally host several in-person conferences a year โ€” to rethink their IT procedures, in

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Happy Holidays from Cybera!

(We’re dropping the price of our Internet Buying Group, again) As we head into the holiday season (and finally draw this year to a close!), Cybera is pleased to offer some good news for 2021: we are dropping the price of bandwidth in the Internet Buying Group from $1.30 per Mbps to $1.20 per Mbps.

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Seeking civic partners to help host eduroam

Cybera is seeking municipal and library partners in Alberta who are interested in joining a free service that provides instant Wi-Fi access to a large subset of their visitors: eduroam. What is eduroam? Eduroam (education roaming) is the secure, global, Wi-Fi roaming service developed by the international research and education community, and available in more

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