The recurring theme of the entire conference was the Internet of Things (IoT) or as Nitin Kiwale of Cisco called it, the Internet of Everything (IoE). Cisco is predicting that IoT will result in $14.4 trillion in business (cost savings, productivity gains, new revenues) for the private sector over the next decade, with an additional […]

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Perhaps the highlight of the second day of the Canadian Telecom Summit was the Regulatory Blockbuster event. The panel discussion had representatives from both the incumbent national wireless players, and new entrants. The basic message of the incumbents was that they needed incentives to invest capital without having to share those facilities. Ted Woodhead of […]

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At the first day of the Canadian Telecom Summit, Mark Henderson, of Ericsson Canada, presented highlights of Ericsson’s Mobility Report. Some of the highlights and implications are below. The number of mobile subscriptions worldwide a respectable 7% year-on-year during Q1 2014. But these modest gains are dwarfed by the fact that mobile broadband subscriptions grew […]

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The 2014 Canadian Telecom Summit will be taking place at the Toronto Congress Centre on June 16-18. The summit always attracts the leaders in Canada’s telecommunication industry. Some of the keynote speakers this year include: • Mark Henderson, President, Ericsson Canada • Guy Lawrence, President and CEO, Rogers Communications • Nitin Kawale, President, Cisco Canada […]

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Ciena, the optical networking vendor, today announced unaudited financial results for its fiscal second quarter ended April 30, 2014. Results and third quarter forecasts were much better than expected. For the fiscal second quarter 2014, Ciena reported revenue of $560.0 million as compared to $507.7 million for the fiscal second quarter 2013. On the basis […]

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In his influential 2006 book, Wikinomics, Don Tapscott discussed about the advent of free Open Source software, such as Linux O/S and Apache web services. Since then, many of us have been waiting to see if open source networking software coupled with low cost generic hardware will come to the telecommunications industry. Decoupling of hardware […]

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