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Santa Claus comes to life in personalized VIDEO
Santa Claus and his amazing Portable North Pole (PNP) console will be online during the entire holiday season. With just a few clicks, this technological marvel will let your loved ones receive a personal message from Santa Claus, sent directly from his village in the North Pole. READ...



Holiday wishes from the NETcomm team
The NETcomm team wishes you and yours a festive and safe holiday season. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. See you in 2011!


Managing a complex distributed network with better insight
Case Study - For Corus Entertainment, it's what the network team couldn't see that was keeping them up at night. To monitor network and application performance more efficiently and effectively, Corus acquired two integrated network analyzers: one for monitoring at head office, the other to be shipped out to remote locations. READ...


IBM says Cambridge, Ontario smarter than the average city
The City of Cambridge introduced new intelligence systems for infrastructure management that will help municipal workers monitor infrastructure projects across the city in real time. For this effort, the city says it has been recognized as the first municipality in Canada by IBM as a smarter city. READ...


Smart Energy Management Initiative Forum spotlights data centre powering efficiency
Cable system operators can significantly and immediately impact their bottom lines by deploying solutions that can reduce data centre power needs and increase energy efficiency. READ...


Belden acquiring Thomas and Betts Communications Products business
Belden Inc. is acquiring Thomas & Betts Corp.'s Communications Products Business for $78 million in cash, saying this acquisition will further strengthen its position as an end-to-end solution provider within the broadband/CATV, security, and audio/video markets. READ...


Chinese ZJF Group acquires plastic optical fiber company Firecomms
Chinese corporation ZJF Group has acquired Cork, Ireland-based Firecomms, a manufacturer of transceivers for consumer plastic optical fiber (POF). READ...


Telecom profits to increase in 2010 says Conference Board
Even in a weak economic recovery, says the Conference Board of Canada, Canada's telecom industry has continued to experience increases in profitability thanks to cost control and demand for new technologies. READ...


IT managers predict widespread private and public cloud adoption
Cisco says global IT professionals are creating new job opportunities by increasing collaboration among teams in the data centre, and adopting new technologies such as virtualization and cloud computing, but they are also struggling to maintain security and data governance. READ...


IEEE foretells of networks more powerful than the internet
A network more powerful than the internet, while perhaps inconceivable right now, is just one of many potentially life-changing applications for wireless sensor networks (WSN) highlighted in a special update issue about Sensor Networks and Applications in Proceedings of the IEEE. READ...


BICSI establishes Pearson Electrotechnology Centre as Authorized Training Facility
BICSI, an association supporting the information technology systems (ITS) industry, has expanded its training opportunities in Canada by granting Authorized Training Facility (ATF) status to Pearson Electrotechnology Centre (Lachine, Que.). READ...


What about the little guy? IBM and Telvent creating smarter traffic solutions for smaller cities
Telvent and IBM aim to develop smarter traffic solutions that are ''affordable and customized for small cities, university and government campuses and business districts''. READ...

Calendar of Events:

IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference - January 9-12, 2011, Las Vegas, Nev.

BICSI Winter Conference & Exhibition - January 16-20, 2011, Orlando, Fla.

SCTE Canadian Summit - March 8-9, 2011, Toronto, Ont.

Broadband World Forum MEA - March 14-15, Dubai, UAE

Check out NETcomm's CALENDAR OF EVENTS for more upcoming industry seminars, conferences, shows and training sessions. Got an event you want us to include on the website? Please email the editor, Anthony Capkun, at acapkun@annexweb.com.

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