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Cybera’s 2025-28 Strategic Roadmap: reflecting on a year of progress

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In the fall of 2024, Cybera reached out to its member community to gain feedback on how we should be shaping our services and technical focus. The message we heard was clear: with the digital landscape evolving at a head-spinning rate, institution’s priorities are focused on cybersecurity, cost efficiency, network connectivity, and robust data governance. […]

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Cybera launches call for education representatives to join its Board of Directors

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Cybera is seeking applications for one financial administration leader from Alberta’s post-secondary community and two leaders from Alberta’s K-12 education communities to join its Board of Directors. The open volunteer positions will help guide Alberta’s research and education network organization as it works to connect Albertans to the world, and enable and advocate for better

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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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Ambrose University and Olds College connect to the National Research and Education Network

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After years of collaborative effort, Cybera is pleased to announce that Ambrose University and Olds College have connected to the National Research and Education Network (NREN). Twenty-five post-secondary institutions in Alberta are now linked together — and to similar institutions around the globe — via this dedicated, high-speed network specifically built by and for the

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Cyber Summit 2024 recap: Three decades of cyber culture and a look to the future

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From November 12–14, 2024, over 350 industry leaders, researchers and policymakers gathered in Banff for Cyber Summit 2024. This sold-out event, hosted by Cybera, SRNET and MRnet, provided a high-level exploration of the evolution of cyber culture and its influence on modern education and workspaces. The presentations and discussions reflected on past milestones, while also

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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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Internet experts and leaders share local solutions at the Alberta Rural Connectivity Forum

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Last month, the Alberta Rural Connectivity Coalition (ARCC) hosted its second annual Alberta Rural Connectivity Forum, which brought together community leaders from across the province. The two-day event, held in Sylvan Lake, highlighted the differing  internet access issues faced by many Alberta communities, and evaluated opportunities available through the Government of Alberta’s new rural broadband

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Industry Hackathon helps solve “digital divide” while supporting professional development

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On June 4, 2021, participants from across Alberta presented unique solutions and tactics to the issue of rural internet access gaps following the month-long Bridging the Connectivity Challenge Hackathon. This event, which was spearheaded by Cybera and ISAIC, brought together more than 100 registrants to address the following objectives: Use available data to assess the

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Closing the gap: a look back at the Alberta Rural Connectivity Forum

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On March 23-24, Cybera hosted the Alberta Rural Connectivity Forum, a two-day virtual event that brought together community leaders and policymakers to discuss the state of connectivity in Alberta. Divided into two days— Community Broadband Updates on day 1 and Regulatory & Technical Solutions on day 2 — the event outlined the infrastructure and funding

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Bi-Fi: Networking with Nature

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April Fools! However, the lack of accessible internet is no laughing matter. Cybera would never think of strapping a wifi hotspot to an animal, but we are always thinking about how to improve access to connectivity. As Alberta’s not-for-profit organization responsible for driving economic growth through the use of digital technology, we strive to keep

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

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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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How federal decisions on wholesale rates impacts internet prices for all Canadians

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On August 15, 2020, the federal government issued a controversial statement regarding an ongoing disagreement between incumbent Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and wholesale internet providers over the wholesale rates set by the CRTC. In its statement, the government seemingly supported an argument advanced by Canada’s big three telecoms providers. They claimed that current regulations requiring

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