At the recent Canadian Telecom Summit (http://www.truepulse.com/canadian-telecom-summit-2015/), both Telecom equipment vendors and Service Providers were predicting the huge bandwidth demand and “big data analysis” that would be triggered by the IOT – “The Internet of Things”, or as Cisco Systems referred to it The Internet of Everything.   And these vendors backed it up by discussing legitimate […]

Some telecom carriers are still using the Nortel OpTera Metro 3500, or OM3500 platform. Well Nortel is no longer in business. Are replacement spares still available? YES! TruePulse carries a broad range of OM3500 cards, including wavelength specific ones. For example, we have in-stock the NTN442FC, DWDM OC-48 LR 1555.75nm , HECI SOC1V07LAF Other wavelengths in-stock […]

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) has released the first version of Atrium, a collection of open software-defined networking (SDN) software elements. Atrium’s objective is to ease the adoption of open SDN concepts. It combines existing open source SDN software to create the Atrium solution. The first release, Atrium 2015/A, incorporates the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), […]

We just received a shipment of Ciena 6500 equipment, also known as Nortel OME 6500 or OM6500.  In the photo, we show the NTK528XAE5, Optical Supervisory & Idler Channel Cct Pack, HECI: WOCUARK. Other recently arrived 6500 boards include NTK523DA, NTK526KE, NTK535LAE5, NTK535LB, NTK557AAE5 and NTK555AA.  We also have a few fully loaded NTK503CDE5 shelves. […]

June 5, 2015 – After missing revenue estimates in 2015Q1, optical transport equipment supplier Ciena Corp. surprised again in 2015Q2 – but this time blowing past estimates. For the fiscal second quarter 2015, Ciena reported revenue of $621.6 million as compared to $560.1 million for the fiscal second quarter 2014. On the basis of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), Ciena’s net income for […]

Former Toronto resident, and Juniper Networks CEO Rami Rahim returned home to speak at the Canadian Telecom Summit.  He talked about the directions of technology today, and his belief in the “Distributed Telco Cloud”.   With customers demanding more dynamic network changes, he felt the key to carrier profitability lied with “Automation”. Yes, SDN, NFV and […]

An interesting choice for the Lunch-time keynote presenter, immediately following the Regulatory Blockbuster, was WIND Mobile CEO Alek Krstajic. As expected, Alek talked about the CRTC and Federal Government wanting to introduce a fourth wireless carrier to the marketplace.  Then, he moved on to his theme of “the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” (classic […]

The more things change…the more they stay the same.  That was the theme of the Canadian Telecom Summit 2015 Regulatory Blockbuster moderated by Greg O’Brien of www.Cartt.ca The “big three” were represented by Mirko Bibic of Bell Canada, David Watt of Rogers Communications and Ted Woodhouse of Telus.  The “upstarts” were represented by Bram Abramson […]

One of the more interesting, even if more scary presentations was on Data Security by David Ostertag, Global Investigations Response, Verizon.  He presented the results of their latest Data Breach Report http://verizonenterprise.com/DBIR/2015. I can’t go over any meaningful amount of the facts.  But here are a few to scare you: 23% of respondents open phishing […]

The main theme from the first day was “Big Data” and what it means. There is definitely more data that telcos have to deal with.  Mark Henderson, President of Ericsson Canada, provided the forecast that mobile data volumes will increase 1000 times by 2020.  Lloyd Switzer of Telus stated that the amount of customer data […]