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CRTC Declares Broadband Internet Access a Basic Telecommunications Service – How Communities Can Benefit

Griping about a slow internet connection has become the unofficial pastime of rural Canadians. But a recent CRTC decision may improve this state of affairs. In December 2016, the commission ruled that residential fixed broadband and mobile broadband internet access are basic telecommunications servicesโ€”equal in importance to the landline telephone of the 20th century. The …

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Axia/Supernet scheduled maintenance (Calgary)

Category: Calgary Supernet Maintenance  AXIA Change Ticket # CA0001322541  Start Time: 2017-02-08  00:01  Local time.  (Wednesday)  End Time: 2017-02-08  06:00  Anticipated Outage Duration: 5 minutes  During the time frame indicated above, Axia/Supernet will be performing maintenance at the Calgary PoP. The outage duration should be less than the total duration of the reserved maintenance window and …

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Axia/Supernet scheduled maintenance (Edmonton)

Category: EDMONTON Supernet Maintenance  AXIA Change Ticket # CA0001322911  Start Time:  2017-02-15  00:01  Local time.  (Wednesday)  End Time: 2017-02-15  06:00  Anticipated Outage Duration: 5 minutes  During the time frame indicated above, Axia/Supernet will be performing maintenance at the Edmonton PoP. The outage duration should be less than the total duration of the reserved maintenance window and …

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Using Technology Responsibly

Lessons learned from the Cyber Summit 2016: Using Technology Responsibly In an increasingly interconnected world, how can people maintain some semblance of privacy while preventing their devices from being hacked? More importantly, are we doing enough to ensure the generations to come have the tools they need to navigate an increasingly interconnected and automated world? …

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New reports from Cybera give the low-down on Alberta’s networking capabilities

Where are all the fibre networks in Alberta? How manyย free WiFiย spotsย do we have access to in the province? And how soon until we seeย internet delivered by drones? After a year of researching, Cybera has unveiled a comprehensive update to the networking chapter of its 2014ย State of Alberta Digital Infrastructure Report. The in-depth review looks atย the …

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Canada’s Internet Performance: What the Numbers Show

By the Cybera Data Science Team Introduction To an ever increasing degree, participation in the economy and society at large is mediated by the internet. If people donโ€™t have good internet access, they feel disenfranchised. Currently in Canada, there are many, many people who feel disenfranchised. For several years now, it has seemed that internet …

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That Escalated Quickly

One of Cybera’s newest projects involves creating a pilot Identity Federation for Alberta K-12 School Authorities. This Identity Federation, known as MyUnifiED, will give participating school staff and students the ability to log into different web services using their school’s login account — they no longer need to have a separate set of credentials stored …

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Area51 Declassified

Welcome to the Rapid Access Cloud Experimental Region NOTE: The Area51 cloud region was decommissioned in 2018 Cybera’s Rapid Access Cloud provides a stable and reliable platform for non-production, demonstrative, or development purposes, using tried and well-tested OpenStack services like OpenStack Compute (nova) and OpenStack Object Storage (swift). Introducing new services to the Rapid Access …

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Municipalities โ€œto the right of the dotโ€. Imagine the new opportunities!

By Richard Schreier,ย Project Managerโ€‹,ย Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) Until recently, there was not a lot of choice in what domain name came after the dot in your web address. Traditionally, .CA or .COM were two of about 250 top-level domains (or TLDs in domain industry jargon) available, most of which were very specific to the …

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Classroom Case Study: Working with NoSQL Databases on the Rapid Access Cloud

By Michael Strobl, PhD Student, University of Alberta A common use of Cyberaโ€™s Rapid Access Cloud has been for classroom learning. Instructors from a number of Alberta institutions have used the cloud to run student assignments, teach the basics of cloud computing, or run modern-day analytics. This post highlights one such use case from the …

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Alberta’s Public Sector Celebrates Four Years of (More) Affordable Internet

Members of the Alberta Internet Buying Group may have noticed their internetย bill was a little lower this month.ย July 2016 marked theย seventh major decrease in the cost of bandwidth for the group, which was reducedย from $5.75/Mbps to $5.00/Mbps. This month alsoย marks the fourth anniversary of the Internet Buying Group.ย To celebrate its achievements over the past four …

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