In 2018, the University of Alberta switched its wifi to IPv6 (internet protocol version 6). Raymond Richmond, Team Lead for IST at the University, talks about his experience with becoming IPv6-enabled, and the benefits that have come with making the change. (One of the biggest benefits right now is being able to offer a more […]
University of Alberta sees many upsides after switching to IPv6 Read More »
Friday the 13th marks an appropriate day for Cybera to announce the 13th major price decrease for the Internet Buying Group since its launch in 2012. As of January 1, 2020, the price of bandwidth for Group members will go down from $1.50 per Mbps to $1.35 per Mbps, a 10% drop. The Internet Buying
After years of negotiations and maintenance work, Cybera is pleased to announce that a high-speed networking point of presence (PoP) has been installed in Red Deer. Red Deer College and the Red Deer Public School District were the first institutions to connect to the new PoP, at a rate of up to 1 Gbps. Utilizing
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Christmas came early for Cybera, as we recently received the #1 item on our wish list: more IPv4 addresses! We had been “getting by” for years on our allocation of 2,000 IPv4 addresses, but as the popularity of our Rapid Access Cloud continued to grow, our stock of addresses became depleted (an individual IPv4 address
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As other blog posts on our site have mentioned, IPv4 addresses are becoming increasingly difficult to obtain. To make the situation more difficult, most communications on the internet is done through IPv4. Cybera’s Rapid Access Cloud provides each project with one public IPv4 address, known as a “Floating IP”. We call them this because they’re
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The global shortage of IPv4 addresses got a bit of a reprieve last month, when MIT announced it would be selling 8 million of the IPv4 addresses it had been sitting on. These were quickly purchased by major tech companies (such as Amazon), who are rumoured to have spent tens of millions of dollars on
Why switch to IPv6? So you can get free internet! Read More »
With the introduction of the OpenStack DNS service (designate) to the Rapid Access Cloud, users are now able to host and manage DNS zones and records, to assist with accessing and managing their resources. Nothing is required for users to start leveraging the OpenStack DNS service, as we have created automated convenience records for floating
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The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is the non-profit, community driven organization responsible for managing internet number resources in North America and parts of the Caribbean. Anyone residing in the ARIN region with an interest in internet governance is encouraged to apply for the Fellowship Program.
Why you should care about internet number resources (and here’s how to get involved) Read More »