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Brief Summary of the Rogers Outage RFI

Late last night the CRTC posted the reply from Rogers to the request for information [__GHOST_URL__/static/Rogers-CRTC-RFI.pdf] (RFI) it sent last week.  In the RFI, the CRTC asked Rogers to respond to 55 questions about the multi-day Canada-wide service outage that started early in the morning of J

The Canadian PSTN needs Next Generation Routing

Last week wasn't great for the Canadian Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).  Two of Canada's largest competitive carriers suffered outages - Iristel was victim of a DDoS attack that lasted over 24 hours, between November 15th and 16th.  At the same time, Thinktel experienced issues related to