Cybera’s response to CRTC investigation on disaggregated wholesale access
On June 11, 2020, the CRTC issued a Call for comments – Appropriate network configuration for disaggregated wholesale high-speed access services. Their goal [...]
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Canada’s Throne Speech made big internet promises. Now for the delivery.
Last week’s Speech from the Throne included many ambitious promises for supporting Canadians as they transition through COVID-19 and adapt to the needs [...]
Piloting a Canadian route to Microsoft Azure: lessons learned
Public clouds, such as Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure, are increasingly becoming a popular choice for hosting an organization’s IT infrastructure and services. [...]
How federal decisions on wholesale rates impacts internet prices for all Canadians
On August 15, 2020, the federal government issued a controversial statement regarding an ongoing disagreement between incumbent Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and wholesale [...]
University of Alberta sees many upsides after switching to IPv6
In 2018, the University of Alberta switched its wifi to IPv6 (internet protocol version 6). Raymond Richmond, Team Lead for IST at the [...]
Edmonton Public Library becomes first public institution in Alberta to offer eduroam
This summer, the Edmonton Public Library (EPL) became the first non-post-secondary education institution in Alberta to offer eduroam, a world-wide roaming internet access [...]
“Rage Against the Machine [Learning]” Hockey vs. Data Science
A strong understanding of math is one skill commonly needed to be a successful data scientist. Some of the most successful data scientists [...]
The ties that bind Alberta’s tech administrators
Between May 2019 and February 2020, Cybera held a series of half-day round table sessions in Red Deer, Lethbridge, Grande Prairie, Edmonton and [...]
Creating a federation of global computers for science and research
Cybera’s Rapid Access Cloud is a small contributor to a global chain of compute nodes, brought together by the Open Science Grid to [...]
Updating our review of Alberta’s connectivity crisis
In April, Cybera's policy team created a white paper to highlight and address the internet crisis in Alberta. As COVID-19 continues to impact [...]