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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Just to surprise you, this blog entry has no reference to any telecom acronym like SDN, NFV or DWDM! We are looking for all serious and/or mediocre golfers! Hosted by the Rotary Clubs of Richmond Hill and Newmarket. Registration is at 10am, shotgun start at 1:00pm. Shoot a hole-in-one on a specific hole, and you […]

The recurring theme of the CommTech show in Toronto was the Software Defined Network, SDN, and the complementary Network Functions Virtualization, NFV. At a high level, SDN is an emerging architecture that decouples the network control and forwarding functions.  This enables network control to become directly programmable and the underlying infrastructure to be abstracted.   This […]

This is a great week for technology in Toronto.  Canadian Commtech Show and Seminars http://www.commtechshow.com/east/ will be at the Mississauga Conference Centre for April  15-16, 2014.   There will be presentations from Helen Xenos of Ciena, Rajesh Chundury of Ericsson, Tony Kourlas of Alcatel Lucent, and John Bakowski, past President of BICSI.   We will have a […]

On-line and mobile transactions (m-commerce), and other electronic commerce (e-commerce) continue to show accelerating growth. Even the most pessimistic forecasts show a continuing increase. Electronic commerce has been a key driving force in the growth of telecom networks and specifically the internet. As a result, Bitcoin, the electronic cryto-currency has ballooned last year. But Mt. […]

Although the Canadian government started the auction of four prime blocks of 700 MHz spectrum, there is no update yet on any winners. In fact, we may not hear the auction results for another five weeks. In any case, with Verizon indicating that they would not bid, and Wind Mobile pulling out at the last […]

After all, they sold their Optera optical transport group to Ciena, their DMS switching group to Genband, their Enterprise business to Avaya, their Passport data products to Hitachi, and their GSM business to Ericsson and Kapsch. Why bring them up now? Well in fact, thousands of Nortel bondholders, retirees and suppliers are still waiting to […]

Last week, Huawei announced that they and Telefonica Chile will deploy the world’s first commercial OTN-based 400G wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) network this year using 100G and 400G technologies. This will be the industry’s fastest metropolitan WDM network based on 400G OTN technology. As standards have not yet been established, Huawei will deploy their proprietary solution […]