Joe Topjian

School’s out, data’s in: Reviewing the last year of network traffic

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Over the last school year, Cybera has connected a large number of K-12 and post-secondary institutions to our research, peering, and transit networks. With the 2024-25 school year finished, it’s a great opportunity to look at our traffic patterns and statistics. SuperNet The majority of our members connect to us through the Alberta SuperNet. Cybera […]

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Long awaited router change doubles Cybera’s network capacity

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This summer, Cybera’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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Piloting a Canadian route to Microsoft Azure: lessons learned

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Public clouds, such as Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure, are increasingly becoming a popular choice for hosting an organization’s IT infrastructure and services. They can often provide managed and semi-managed services more efficiently than an average in-house IT department. With more Cybera members leveraging public cloud services such as these, we are looking at ways

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