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FarStone Update Alex Goldman
[December 12, 2006] As backup becomes a top service, this company unveils product updates and a new product.

File Protection Solution Seeks ISP Resellers Alex Goldman
[November 7, 2006] This is a software backup solution inspired by the everyday experience of living in Florida.

The Original Remote Backup Alex Goldman
[October 20, 2006] This company has been offering remote backup for so long, it claims it coined the term.

Selling Safety Alex Goldman
[October 19, 2006] As threats proliferate, and malware attacks everything, Aladdin's product protects users not just from the usual suspects, but also from holes in their own Microsoft computers.

Better Partnerships Alex Goldman
[September 28, 2006] Now that no service provider works alone, a telecom solution company has developed a tool to help ISPs manage partner relationships.

InterCloud Security Service Alex Goldman
[September 25, 2006] Today, Trend Micro announces a program to tackle next generation spam.

Digium's VON Announcements Part 2: The Asterisk Appliance Developers' Kit Alex Goldman
[September 12, 2006] Digium has designed an appliance that will be modified by service providers and OEMs in an attempt to better serve vertical markets.

Ranch Networks Announces Asterisk Clustering Alex Goldman
[September 12, 2006] The open source VoIP project is now able to handle the largest projects.

Remote Support App Alex Goldman
[September 11, 2006] This desktop sharing application asks users' permission before taking over the computer for support purposes, and a small download means that nothing needs to be pre-installed.

Whitesmoke Fixes Your English Alex Goldman
[July 24, 2006] Software originally developed for non-native speakers is proving popular worldwide, the company says.

Easier Upgrades from Dialup to DSL Alex Goldman
[June 7, 2006] It's a simple little device, easy to describe, and it could eliminate dialup in urban areas just by making it easier to upgrade to DSL.

Solving the Home Network Problem—Really! Alex Goldman
[June 2, 2006] It's the dream of every ISP in the world: the computer setup that fixes itself after the customer has broken it. Now one company says it's ready to deliver.

Zimbra Jeff Goldman
[May 17, 2006] With functionality reaching far beyond that of traditional webmail, Zimbra is working to redefine browser-based messaging.

BPM for Small Business, Version 1.0 Alex Goldman
[May 15, 2006] Although it's true that every business should make daily work more of a system and less of an art, this tool for building systems is a work in process.

Editorial: Just Tell Me The Price Alex Goldman
[April 6, 2006] Vendors can destroy their business by making prices too complex

Handling the Thermodynamics of Webhosting Alex Goldman
[March 30, 2006] An intuitive, easy to use website builder reduces friction between the buying of a website, the building of the website, and that valuable upsell that every webhost desires.

Billions and Billions of Phone Bills Alex Goldman
[March 17, 2006] ISPs and CLECs handle millions of phone bill line items each year, and one company has software to make it much easier, saving hours and hours of time.

Evolve to SIP Alex Goldman
[March 17, 2006] With a pair of new boxes, this company has mapped out an easier voice upgrade path from TDM to SIP.

Mirapoint Makes it Easier Alex Goldman
[February 7, 2006] A company specializing in serving carrier customers introduces purchase plans for regular ISPs.

Artera Turbo's New Product Alex Goldman
[December 1, 2005] The acceleration vendor has a whole new twist on acceleration and has redefined what it offers to ISPs.

Disk Specialist Alex Goldman
[November 18, 2005] Whether it's hard drives or CD-ROMs, this company can make them do things you might not have realized were possible.

Asterisk Business Edition Alex Goldman
[November 11, 2005] The certified build of the open source PBX is available now at a price that's designed to unnerve the closed-source competition.

Is This Blogging God Right For You? Alex Goldman
[November 7, 2005] There's growing competition in the blogging services software market, including an interesting product from a company that was featured in ISPCON's Startup City.

Wireless CPE for Dialup Subscribers Alex Goldman
[October 25, 2005] We never wrote up the company's first product, which we thought nobody would buy (we were wrong). Now that the company's second product is on the market, we decided to learn about both.

Modular is Best Alex Goldman
[October 13, 2005] If you want to keep pace with the rapidly changing telecommunications business, one vendor says, you build modular software and keep thinking outside the box, away from the appliance.

A Flashy Filter Alex Goldman
[July 25, 2005] This agile content filter works in both home and small business environments and features a GUI that will please anyone trying to reduce help desk calls.

Tools For Fighting Spyware Jim Thompson
[May 31, 2005] Here are some of the ways ISPs are fighting the Spyware threat.

Just Deep Six It Alex Goldman
[April 8, 2005] One vendor announces a solution to the porn problem.

Your Sales Team Needs Some Good KARM ISP-Planet Staff
[April 8, 2005] A vendor says that the sales team's database should only contain information the members of the team don't know already.

Make It As Easy As Possible Alex Goldman
[February 28, 2005] After you've sold a customer their own web space, try making it as easy as possible for them to build the site they want, a vendor suggests.

Don't Just Store Photos Alex Goldman
[February 10, 2005] Sure, plenty of ISPs sell extra disk space to users who store their photos online, but one software developer thinks ISPs should ask customers "Want some software with that disk space?"

An Alternative to Exchange Alex Goldman
[November 8, 2004] One company's pitch to ISPs looking to offer collaboration products to small business is simple: all the features, minus the hassle.

From Phone Support to Click Support Alex Goldman
[September 10, 2004] ISPs need to enable tech support staff to do more with less. Here's one company's answer to the problem.

Nuvio's New Partnership Program ISP-Planet Staff
[August 23, 2004] Nuvio announces a new program to enable larger ISPs to own a greater portion of their own VoIP solution.

Modem Maker Launches VoIP Service Alex Goldman
[July 12, 2004] If you're examining your VoIP options, you owe it to yourself to look at this offering from a veteran modem maker, aimed at ISPs of all sizes.

The Best Spyware Prevention Tool Best of ISP-Lists
[July 1, 2004] ISP gurus share their advice on the best way to keep your PC and your customers' PCs free of spyware.

Nuvio Targets Tier 2 and 3 Cities for VoIP ISP-Planet Staff
[June 21, 2004] Looking for a serverless VoIP product? Look no further than Nuvio, which provides the CPE as well.

Integrated Security and VPN for the SMB Market Alex Goldman
[June 3, 2004] This security vendor is looking for ISP partners to sell its SMB all-in-one Linux-based security-plus-more service, offering ISPs a cut of the substantial monthly service fee.

Privacy That's More Than Pretty Good Alex Goldman
[April 23, 2004] One company says that in order to protect your privacy, it must know as little as possible about you, and it's patented that idea.

Kidsnet for Dot US and the World Alex Goldman
[April 8, 2004] As ISPCON approaches, Kidsnet is proud to announce sales growth, product improvements—and a contract with a TLD administrator.

Hotlining ILEC Style Alex Goldman
[February 5, 2004] Service providers of all sizes have this problem in common: what do you do about the customer who hasn't paid? One company offers a carrier class solution.

New Features for Hosting Software Vet Alex Goldman
[January 26, 2004] ShopSite, an e-commerce software veteran, has released version 7.0 of its ShopSite package, with several new features aimed at improving its ISP market share.

Remote Temperature and Humidity Readings ISP-Planet Staff
[August 7, 2003] A cheap, small box can be added to Sentry Power Towers to measure temperature, humidity, and even check for condensation.

Open Source OSS System Alex Goldman
[February 6, 2003] The founder of futureLAB says that open source systems free businesses from support contracts and upgrade plans. With a copy of the code, ISPs can upgrade their systems how and when they wish.

APC Keeps Your ISP Working ISP-Planet Staff
[October 23, 2002] American Power Conversion expands its family of server, networking, and telecom equipment power protection solutions with its new Smart-UPS On-line lineup.

What Do My Batteries Want? Best of ISP-Lists
[October 23, 2002] Members of the ISP-Tech list discuss the battery life of the average uninterruptible power supply (UPS) as they scour the Web for information on some strange blinking lights.

BladeLogic's Data Center Software boston.internet.com Staff
[October 14, 2002] BladeLogic's software lets IT managers remotely access, control, and update hundreds of servers running on UNIX, NT, or Linux operating systems, cutting equipment management costs.

Edging Out Incumbent Carriers ISP-Planet Staff
[September 5, 2002] Occam Networks makes a Broadband Loop Carrier solution for independent companies seeking to provide high-speed data and advanced voice services to rural America.

Pop-Up Stopper Wayne Kawamoto
[September 4, 2002] Panicware's Pop-Up Stopper software is a free utility distributed to ISPs that is designed to stop annoying pop-up Internet ads.

InnoMedia's Internet Phone Wayne Kawamoto
[August 29, 2002] InnoMedia's MTA 3308 IP Phone is specifically targeted at broadband service providers who want to deliver new revenue-generating telephony services.

WatchGuard Builds A Better Firebox ISP-Planet Staff
[August 21, 2002] Economically priced and designed for easy deployment, WatchGuard's latest Firebox SOHO 6 firewall systems could make your VPN and broadband sharing devices operate faster and more secure.

Own-Branded Browser for ISPs ISP-Planet Staff
[August 13, 2002] UltraBrowser.com, a company that specializes in private labeled browsers, released its UBvision 7.0 browser through a wizard on the company's website.

Dial-Up Accelerator Wayne Kawamoto
[August 8, 2002] Propel Software Corporation's subscription service is designed to let end-users surf the web up to five times faster over a dial-up connection.

IBM Untangles Cable Spaghetti Brian Morrissey
[July 22, 2002] IBM said that its Advanced Connectivity Technology (ACT) would cut down on the on the tangles of chords tying together rack-mounted servers and unveiled a new rackmount server.

One Step Closer to Smart Refrigerators Wayne Kawamoto
[July 18, 2002] Echelon's i.LON adapter is designed to provide a cost-effective way for ISPs to monitor and control small networks of everyday devices in homes, apartments, and small buildings.

IBM Wants to Shake Industry, Not Hard Drive Michael Chait
[July 10, 2002] In a move aimed at re-staking its claim in the high-end hard drive market, IBM Tuesday unveiled a new industrial-strength server hard disk drive with anti-vibration technology.

Talking Turkey on the Fourth Best of the ISP-Lists
[July 4, 2002] While others across the U.S. are barbecuing or watching parades, take a gander at various heated discussions about what equipment (hardware and software) your ISP should be using.

Subscriber Management Software Wayne Kawamoto
[July 3, 2002] Rockstar's Gearbox Connection Kit 3.0.1 offers client license tracking and enhanced broadband scripting. An alliance with Rodopi adds features for Rodopi customers.

Beating a Path to Packets Alex Goldman
[July 1, 2002] ADC's intelligent Access Network enables service providers to use as little of a telecom's network as possible to provision DSL, voice and video services.

Renewed Interest In Dial-up Surprises Old-Timers Max Smetannikov
[June 21, 2002] Around the world, naive computer enthusiasts want to build new ISPs, much to the surprise of veterans who left the business. Here's what these college graduates will need—and how they may fail.

Converged Services Platform Wayne Kawamoto
[June 20, 2002] NMS Communications' Convergence Generation 6500C high-density IP/PSTN media platform is designed to enable wireless and wireline value-added services.

net.com's IP Telephony Gateway Wayne Kawamoto
[March 4, 2002] net.com says its SHOUT2500 voice gateway packs dual T3 interfaces, sixteen T1/E1 connections, SIP/H.323 interoperability, and integrated SS7/C7 into a two-rack, $110,000 unit.

E-Commerce Software Revenue Share Wayne Kawamoto
[February 26, 2002] LaGarde designed its StoreFront Now software so that ISPs could sell and host e-commerce services that will appeal to small businesses, allowing them to compete with Yahoo! Stores and bCentral.

Fireclick Releases Netflame2 Gretchen Hyman
[February 20, 2002] Netflame upgrade provides website operators and marketers with improved monitoring, management, and customer satisfaction capabilities via a hosted customer management suite.

Finding UPS at Home Depot? Best of ISP-Lists
[January 31, 2002] Members of the ISP-Colo list share advice and warnings about designing or implementing your own Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS).

Total Internet Version 4.0 Wayne Kawamoto
[December 6, 2001] Fine Point says its latest self-install kit allows ISPs to compete with AOL by distributing their own sign-up CDs.

Lucent's DNS Security Tool Clint Boulton
[December 6, 2001] Lucent Technologies unveiled a monitoring service to protect DNS from those with bad intentions.

3D Customer Content and Games Wayne Kawamoto
[November 16, 2001] Vircom's E-maginer Online lets ISP customers create their own 3D, multi-user online websites. Vircom itself runs two online games, called The 4th Prophecy and Black Moon Chronicles.

Thrivingisp.com Wayne Kawamoto
[September 4, 2001] ezTel Networks claims its software will reduce an ISPs network costs by at least 25 percent overall because it switches infrequent users to hourly billing with the ISP's upstream provider.

Service Provisioning Portal for ISPs Wayne Kawamoto
[August 20, 2001] Filanet's Service Provisioning Portal is a Web-based application that provides integrated functions for network management and services provisioning on networks that use the Filanet InterJak.

WebTrends Reporting Center 4.0 Alex Goldman
[August 7, 2001] WebTrends, long regarded as the best log analysis software for Windows NT and 2000 systems, is redefining the way it does business. And check out the new Service Provider Edition.

Next-Generation Telephony Services Solution Wayne Kawamoto
[June 11, 2001] BroadSoft's service delivery system will operate with Tekelec's softswitch to let service providers offer Web-enabled telephony features including call forwarding, conferencing, and voice mail.

Intel's 1.7 GHz Workstation Chip Clint Boulton
[May 22, 2001] The chipmaker puts its head down and braves the frigid PC spending market with its new Xeon chip, and adds an advertising campaign to support massive computing.

Signaling Service for Ariel BypaSS7 Wayne Kawamoto
[May 3, 2001] May reduce up-front equipment expenditures for SS7-Based 56K/ISDN dial-up Internet access and let smaller ISPs and CLECs enjoy the cost savings of SS7 technology.

Dual 750 MHz UltraSPARC III Compatible Server Wayne Kawamoto
[April 30, 2001] Tatung Science & Technology's compact rackmount system is targeted towards ISPs. It has a maximum capacity of 8 GB of memory and 216 GB of internal disk storage.

Bundled Online Storage and File Management Services
Wayne Kawamoto

[April 26, 2001] The ISP@SwapDrive program is designed to enable service providers to offer customers more value-added services in a single bundled package. It's part of the SwapDrive Provider Network (SPN).

Real-Time Site Performance Analysis Alex Goldman
[April 25, 2001] WebTrends Live promises real-time website analysis by tracking performance in the browser, as users go through a site, instead of analyzing logs after the fact. It gathers data on plug-ins, product purchases, and more.

OC-192 SONET/SDH Chip Set Wayne Kawamoto
[April 19, 2001] SONET/SDH channelization chip set creates new sub-wavelength optical equipment that may replace racks of traditional equipment with a single shelf, and consolidate metro optical networks for multi-platform service delivery.

DNS BIND Security Goes Incognito ISP-Planet Staff
[ April 9, 2001] Incognito Software takes the BIND out of DNS management with debut its DNS Commander 3.1 targeting 90 percent of DNS servers running vulnerable BIND software.

Access Denied Best of ISP-Lists
[March 29, 2001 ] Members of the ISP-Marketing list discuss the path to a trouble-free billing system. Unfortunately, the journey involves navigating the maze-like universe of database systems.

Fighting Snow White and the Naked Wife ISP-Planet Staff
[March 27, 2001] Although they should know better, users are still clicking on trojans, spreading viruses behind the firewall. Mirapoint's new product protects against trojans and makes networks more efficient, manageable, and feature-rich.

Accelerated Internet Browsing for ISPs Wayne Kawamoto
[March 12, 2001] Speedwise ISPower promises faster browsing that is transparent to end-users and requires no client-side installations. If bandwidth prices fail to fall, browser acceleration will allow ISPs to make do with what they have.

Automated Deployment of New Services Wayne Kawamoto
[March 8, 2001] Latest version of APS serviceware is designed to enable service providers to automate the rollout of personalized service bundles, simplifying the complex operations of next-generation service environments.

Hardware Security Platform Wayne Kawamoto
[March 7, 2001] Chrysalis-ITS announced the Ultimate Trust Solution (UTS) Platform, a suite of products and services for building an e-business security infrastructure, including secure VPNs, PKIs, and more.

NightFire Supports Siebel eCommunications Wayne Kawamoto
[February 24, 2001] Resulting products may let service providers deploy a Web-based, self-service solution that enables customers to accurately pre-qualify, order, and check the status of broadband service orders

New VoIP Test Suite Enhances Diagnostics Wayne Kawamoto
[February 20, 2001] Upgraded testing capabilities might allow providers to guarantee that a system is stable, ensuring reliable voice over Internet services are connecting to the edge of a network.

Call on the Creator Wayne Kawamoto
[February 3, 2001]
Activator 3.4 and Creator 2.0, new enhancements to Syndesis' NetProvision software suite, should help ISPs form complex service applications that encompass multiple technologies.

Billing Software for Application Hosts Wayne Kawamoto
[January 29, 2001]
ModusNovo's billing system is designed for service providers that are hosting applications. The system's modular, open architecture and shared revenue model may make it appropriate for ISPs of various sizes.

NAS, Network Storage in a New Light Sander Sassen
[January 26, 2001]
With the introduction of NAS (Network Attached Storage) companies and individuals alike now have an efficient way of simply adding network storage without dealing with costly down time.

DNS Management Product M.A. Dokter
[January 22, 2001]
Deerfield's DNS2Go product supplies DNS management to end-users. ISPs should be aware of its "keep-alive" feature that uses a heartbeat to maintain dialup connections (and other timed connections).

ASP Solution Delivers Hosted Applications to Service Providers
Wayne Kawamoto
[January 6, 2001] NetSat Express' Impact Services solution for ISPs offers Web-based e-mail and instant messaging services, security, and alternate language support, as well as personal information management tools.

 

 

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