Alex Goldman

The Wall Street Technology Association (WSTA) on Threat Management and Information Security featured many speakers. One talked about a threat that affects businesses of all sizes. Brian Contos, CEO of Cupertino, Calif.-based security vendor ArcSight (IPO planned for later this year) pointed out that the insider threat is very different from most of the security […]

Panoramic view of the Grand Traverse Resort & Spa. Yet another advantage of wireless is that the project is modular. It was easy to turn on just the main building in phase one, add connectivity to the condos in phase two, and then connect the golf course and other outdoor areas in phase three. Since […]

Kanata, Ontario-based DragonWave is announcing a new product line, the Horizon Compact radio. The company has always claimed a manufacturing advantage in the market for high end backhaul radios, at 23 GHz and higher spectrum because it is able to build many radio variants off a single platform, making its radios better and cheaper. Savings […]

At the Freedom to Connect conference, Sascha Meinrath pitched the next way we’re going to eliminate the telcos from the upstream. He was talking about the CUWiN Foundation (specializing in “Community Wireless Solutions”). (It was originally the website of the Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Net.) He called the talk: Cooperative Networking (a.k.a everything else is stupid). […]

“Most of our competitors do mesh with single radio or dual radio products,” Jim Freeze, vice president of marketing and alliances at Kanata, Ontario-based BelAir Networks. Freeze says that’s fine. One radio boxes (BelAir makes them too) can work on low usage edges of a deployment. Two radio boxes can be deployed closer in. But […]

A team of executives from Schaumburg, Ill.-based Motorola visited the ISP-Planet offices to explain Motorola’s MOTOwi4 plan for wireless broadband services. The team included Jim Welch, former CEO and president of Wireless Valley, an RF mapping company acquired by Motorola in 2004 (Welch is now vice president in charge of the company’s wireless broadband product […]

Last year, Covad acquired NextWeb (see Covad’s Acquisition of NextWeb Makes Sense), a move that we feel was driven by regulatory uncertainty in the wired broadband space. At the time, ISP-Planet concluded, “if $24.7 million is the price tag on survival itself, Covad got a bargain.” Equipment We were most interested in learning what equipment […]

On the first day of ISPCON earlier this month, Bill Topeglian, vice president of corporate development for Atlanta-based EarthLink and Raghu Rau, senior vice president of global marketing and strategy for Motorola Networks (the ISP services arm of Schuamburg, Ill.-based Motorola), showcased the EarthLink architecture for municipal deployments. When EarthLink first entered this market (see Winning […]

Today, a billing dispute is cutting off customers of alternative ISPs as Verizon uses a billing dispute to cut off its competition. We reached one of the ISPs affected, Matthew Crocker of the CLEC Crocker Communications. “We had less than 24 hours notice,” Crocker told us. “At first, we thought it wouldn’t happen, but then […]

For EarthLink, the Philadelphia contract (see EarthLink Scores With Philadelphia) isn’t just about starting a new business line. It’s also about deploying the latest technology. Cole Reinwand is EarthLink’s director of next generation broadband, covering WiMAX, broadband over power lines (BPL), fiber to the home (FTTH), and other technologies. He’s the one who’s been doing […]

Founded in April of 2000, Frederick, Colo.-based Mesa Networks started providing service in October of that year. “We’re 90 percent residential and about 10 percent business now,” says Bill Fowler, CTO. Fowler is also the co-founder, along with CEO Todd Bergstrom. The original intent, Fowler says, was to court business customers, but the company found […]

You can already do voice over Wi-Fi, with Skype, the world’s most popular free VoIP application. “But if you want to be mobile, you need a dual mode handset,” notes Monica Paolini, founder of Senza Fili Consulting (senza fili means wireless in Italian). The company has just issued a report on dual mode technology called […]