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Video: Behind the scene of the WIND Mobile network

By on May 7, 2010 at 8:07am in Asides, Mobile News, Various News, WIND Mobile

The other day I took had the opportunity to go deep behind the scene of Wind Mobile’s network – basically the guts of their operations. As you’ll see in the video I catch up with Ante Rupcic, he’s the VP of Core Network and he’s one of those guys who has years of experience and loves what he does. We talk about about what and how long it takes to build an all IP network, why the room is so cold and loud, what happens when/if a disaster occurs and how the back-end of Wind actually works. The video is over 20 minutes in length and offers general overview of this highly secure Toronto facility (they have locations similar to this in all their launch cities). Check it out here:

(Thanks Ante!)

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13 comments for “Video: Behind the scene of the WIND Mobile network”

  1. Looks like 151 Front St.

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    Posted by theninjasquad | May 7, 2010, 8:16 am
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  2. High praise for Mobilesyrup.com for providing these kinds of insider videos. I enjoyed the technology lesson.

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    Posted by Chris R | May 7, 2010, 8:34 am
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  3. I see that HP is used as their computers so now we all know why they have so many problems with their network

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    Posted by Karam | May 7, 2010, 8:38 am
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  4. Damn, nice behind-the-scenes look. Long, but informative.

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    Posted by Simon Sage | May 7, 2010, 8:50 am
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  5. There aren’t more than 200 countries in the world.

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    Posted by theninjasquad | May 7, 2010, 10:35 am
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  6. I’d like to see Robellus let people video how they operate.

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    Posted by Terry Hamilton | May 7, 2010, 10:43 am
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  7. Almost looks like Q9.

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    Posted by Jon | May 7, 2010, 10:55 am
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  8. Rogers kind of did. On their Redboard blog, they did a video showing the inside of their main network management center.

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    Posted by theninjasquad | May 7, 2010, 10:58 am
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  9. @karam them using hp has nothing to do with the issues, alot of companies use hp for mainframes.

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    Posted by mark | May 12, 2010, 12:00 am
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  10. Oh my god, did you see the rat nests in some of those cabinets? No wonder they have so many service issues!

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    Posted by frank | June 19, 2010, 7:59 pm
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  11. I thought the vuvuzela’s were bad until I heard this. ;) Seriously though – I enjoyed it. I would have liked an interview with him more than a tour just to ask the tough questions like – what sort of time scale are they talking about for a fully reliable network in greater Vancouver?

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    Posted by Darryl Wright | June 21, 2010, 4:01 pm
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  12. [...] Loyal mobilesyrup.com readers may have already caught this cool behind-the-scenes look at our NOC (that’s Network Operations Centre for the uninitiated). If you’ve got a few minutes and want to [...]

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    Posted by Otta-wow: Time to celebrate - WIND Dev | April 18, 2011, 10:01 am
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  13. You think that’s good, you should see him dance to sanctuary.

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    Posted by JW | April 24, 2012, 3:11 pm
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