Shaw Communications
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| Company type | Public (TSX: SJR.B NYSE: SJR) |
|---|---|
| Industry | telecommunications |
| Founded | 1966 (as the Capital Cable Television Co. Ltd.) 1984 (as Shaw Cablesystems Ltd.) |
| Headquarters | Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
Key people | J.R. Shaw (chairman) |
| Products | cable television, high speed internet, telephone |
| Revenue |  $2.4 billion CAD (2006) |
| $464.4 million CAD (2006) | |
Number of employees | 8,200 (2007) |
| Website | www.shaw.ca |
Shaw Communications is a Canadian telecommunications company that provides telephone, internet and television services.
The company grew during the 1980s and 1990s through acquisitions of firms including Classicomm in the Toronto area, Access Communications in Nova Scotia, Fundy Cable in New Brunswick, Trillium Cable in Ontario, Telecable in Saskatchewan, and Videon Cablesystems of Winnipeg, which had itself previously acquired Vidéotron's assets in Alberta. However, two swaps, in 1994 and 2001, with Rogers Cable have resulted in its assets being restricted to western Canada and a few areas of northern Ontario.
Shaw is also the parent of Shaw Satellite Services (previously Canadian Satellite Communications, or Cancom) and, through Shaw Satellite Services, Star Choice, one of Canada's two national direct broadcast satellite providers. For many years it also owned a number of radio stations and specialty television services; these assets were later spun off into Corus Entertainment in an effort to satisfy a now-repealed Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) policy discouraging cross-ownership of cablesystems and specialty services.
Compromised Network
Shaw Communications IP addresses 24.64.x.x are notorious for internet attacks against computer users. IP address range of 24.64.*.* should be blocked for all ports on configurable firewalls. Internet attackers freely use Shaw Communications IP addresses to launch attacks en masse against computers. In a study conducted at Northwestern University, Shaw Communications ranked in the top ten ISPs worldwide for generating Botnet scan traffic.(Honeynet-based Botnet Scan Traffic Analysis Zhichun Li et al, 2007)
Eponymous buildings
- Shaw Tower, Vancouver
- Shaw Barlow, Calgary
- Shaw Court, Calgary
- Shaw Conference Centre, Edmonton
- Shaw Centre, Saskatoon
Gallery
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Shaw Conference Centre, Edmonton. -
Shaw Technician Van.
See also
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