TORONTO – Organizers of the Canadian Telecom Summit (CTS) yesterday announced the conference will feature the panel “Accelerating Ontario’s Economy Through Critical Technologies”.
“The panel will explore the need for and value of Critical Technologies such as 5G, Quantum and AI and how they will enable Canada to grow and compete with global jurisdictions in the digital race,” an email announcing the panel says.
“The panel will feature perspectives from key industry leaders across a range of emerging / enabling technologies and discuss the latest innovation and their use cases. The opportunities Critical Technologies provide to revolutionize the way businesses deliver…
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IN JUNE, THE CRTC renewed CBC/Radio-Canada’s broadcasting licences on terms that caused widespread indignation. Dozens of organizations protested that the new conditions of licence constitute a major departure from the mission of a public broadcaster. Last Thursday, the Governor General in Council ordered the CRTC to reconsider its decision, bearing in mind that the national public broadcaster must continue to make “a significant contribution to the creation, presentation and dissemination of local news, children’s programming, original French-language programming and programming produced by independent producers.”
That order is good news for Canada’s production industry and we welcome it. However, there’s nothing…
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Palo Alto Networks Inc. announced today it has been selected by Telus to assist with securing the carrier’s 5G network and IoT infrastructure.
Telus “will leverage Palo Alto Networks’ hardware and software firewalls to protect high-capacity network interfaces across its 5G stand-alone core and internet perimeter as well as to provide security to its IoT customers,” a press release reads.
Palo Alto Networks “will leverage its Zero Trust approach, a security framework that is rigorously applied through to the full ecosystem of controls — network, endpoint, cloud, application, IoT, identity and more — and that many organizations…
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MONT-TREMBLANT – Free, ad-supported streaming television (FAST) is “going to be the dominant system all around the world,” Alan Wolk (above), co-founder and lead analyst at TVREV told attendees of the Canadian Communication Systems Alliance Connect 2022 conference yesterday.
At the moment, we are living in a hybrid environment, which will be around for a while, Wolk said, explaining in Canada, 51% of people are subscribing to both linear and streaming services.
“The thing about hybrid that’s interesting is that it’s not necessarily one or the other all of the time,” he said. There will be some people who watch mostly…
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TORONTO — Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) announced today Francisco Sant’Anna (above), senior advisor of 5G solutions and communication service provider (CSP) industry marketing at Ciena, will give a keynote speech at the 2022 Canadian ISP Summit, which is being held Oct. 18-19 at the Marriott Downtown at CF Toronto Eaton Centre.
Sant’Anna will deliver his keynote, “A New Generation of Broadband Connectivity”, on Tuesday, Oct. 18 at 4:30 p.m. ET.
“Broadband network investments face unprecedented momentum, but access to capital and strong demand are far from assuring a fail-proof business case. With growing competition and shifting requirements, ISPs must…
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TORONTO — Cinespace Studios announced today the expansion of its Marine Terminal Studio Hub with the signing of a second long-term lease with PortsToronto.
Cinespace will redevelop PortsToronto’s Marine Terminal 52 building to “create three production stages and support spaces totaling 130,000 square feet to welcome world-class productions in 2023,” reads a Cinespace press release.
Gensler, a global architecture, design and planning firm, has been selected to design the new studio. (Pictured above is an artist rendering of the proposed Marine Terminal 52 studio facility.)
Cinespace has entered into a 30-year lease for Marine Terminal 52, according to a press…
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Disappointment expressed by multiple groups that the order does not mention Tandem
OTTAWA – Cabinet has referred the CBC’s licence renewal decision back to the CRTC.
The CRTC issued the decision renewing the licences for the Corporation’s English- and French-language audiovisual and audio services this past June. Following this, the Governor in Council received 16 petitions asking for the decision to be set aside or referred back to the Commission.
The petitioners raised concerns about the CRTC giving the CBC flexibility to transfer its programming requirements to online platforms, about the CBC’s commercial activities including Tandem, its branded content initiative,…
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OTTAWA – Industry minister François-Philippe Champagne met with the Canadian Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee today “to instruct them to come up with further measures to ensure reliable networks across the country,” he announced on Twitter.
“Keeping Canadians connected is critical,” another tweet from a thread on the topic says. “That’s why earlier this summer I directed the telecom industry to improve network reliability across Canada. But that was just a first step.”
Champagne goes on to say he will continue to hold the country’s telecom companies accountable and keep Canadians updated on…
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By Connie Thiessen
DATA AND INSIGHTS provider Luminate has announced a partnership with Mediabase that will see the airplay monitoring service’s tracking data fuel its North American music charts, igniting a transition away from BDS.
Effective this December, Luminate’s reporting on radio music activity in the U.S. and Canada will become the standard, with its Top40, Rhythmic, Mainstream Rock, Active Rock, Modern Rock, Triple A, Country, Oldies, AC, Hot AC, Urban, Urban AC, Smooth AC, Christian, Gospel and Latin charts, no longer competing with Billboard, whose charts were formerly fed by Luminate’s BDS service, which tracks radio, television and internet airplay of songs.
With the announcement, Luminate has unveiled plans for a…
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Michael Soulakis, IP/optical networks at Ribbon Communications, to lead session
TORONTO – Competitive Network Operators of Canada (CNOC) announced today the program agenda for this year’s ISP Summit, which is taking place Oct. 18-19 at the Marriott Downtown at CF Toronto Eaton Centre, is now live.
CNOC also announced Michael Soulakis, IP/optical networks at Ribbon Communications will speak at the event. His session, titled “Benefits of multi-vendor network architectures to improve network performance”, will take place Tuesday, Oct. 18 at 4 p.m., an email announcing his participation in the event says.
The session will include a discussion of “how new automated open…
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