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2002

Cisco Press: Storage Area Network Fundamentals Alex Goldman
[December 27, 2002] If you're about to manage a Storage Area Network on a day-to-day basis, you'll want Cisco Press' Storage Area Network Fundamentals, a book that covers everything from hardware warning lights to the structure of the Internet.

CryptCOM's Secure File Transfer Alex Goldman
[December 19, 2002] Working from a flexible, programmable database at the back end, and multiple layers of security before, during, and after a session at the front end, startup CryptCOM Securities says it delivers secure file transfers over the Internet.

Linksys' New NAS Device Clint Boulton
[December 11, 2002] This 80 gigabyte network-attached storage (NAS) device offers file, print server, and Web-based management for only $549.

QoS for ISP Networks of All Sizes Alex Goldman
[November 14, 2002] Deterministic Networks is bringing network management and forecasting tools developed for satellite networks to Internet services providers of all shapes and sizes.

Managing the Internet's Core Alex Goldman
[November 4, 2002] QOptics emerges from stealth mode, changing its name to Elematics and debuting its intelligent network control that is designed to make managing an Internet backbone easier.

Amplify.net's Smaller Gateways ISP-Planet Staff
[October 28, 2002] Amplify.net released a beefy gateway earlier this year and responds to the needs of U.S. ISPs with a smaller, lighter product that is designed to fit in small business budgets.

Fortinet's 3 Gbps Security Appliance Paul Desmond
[October 28, 2002] Fortinet breaks the price/speed barrier with a 3 Gbps gateway that costs $19,999. The company's six other security appliances boast lower price points and speeds.

Data Storage News InternetNews.com Staff
[October 10, 2002] New tape drives from HP, a cheaper product from EMC as layoffs loom, and two storage giants team up.

Corinex Delivers Data, Video, and Voice Wayne Kawamoto
[September 30, 2002] With the Corinex NetGate Technology Suite, service providers may be able to deliver data, video, VoIP, and audio to each electrical outlet in a customer's home.

DataPeer Puts the "i" in iSCSI Alex Goldman
[September 26, 2002] There's been a lot of talk about the promise that iSCSI holds for the future of cost-effective storage, but not much action. Enter DataPeer, a firm that's making iSCSI a household word.

Cisco Fortifies VPN Products Michael Singer
[September 25, 2002] Cisco Systems Tuesday padded its network security portfolio with enhancements to two of its virtual private network VPN products.

Microsoft's Broadband Hardware Eric Griffith
[September 20, 2002] Microsoft will release broadband networking hardware for wired and wireless homes, featuring Ethernet and 802.11b technologies, respectively.

Foundry's New IronWare Wayne Kawamoto
[September 16, 2002] Foundry Networks' IronWare 07.6.01 promises to enhance network control, bolster network availability, and increase security.

IP Storage Book Review Alex Goldman
[September 12, 2002] Four years ago saw the release of the first book describing how to build a storage network. Now that experienced author, Tom Clark, tackles IP storage networks in a new book.

Coyote Point Systems Adds Layer 7 Wayne Kawamoto
[September 12, 2002] New Layer 7 capabilities offer cookie-based persistence, cookie stuffing, SSL ID based persistence, and URL load balancing.

Dyband's Satellite Management Solution Wayne Kawamoto
[August 23, 2002] Dyband, a supplier of IP traffic management solutions to service providers, said its IP traffic management solution delivers effective quality-of-service for satellite access.

Storage Basics: The Storage Future Alex Goldman
[August 22, 2002] iSCSI and other protocols could slash the costs of deploying and maintaining new storage networks, good news for ISPs seeking to leverage IP and Ethernet skills.

Gadzoox Shows the Fabric Michael Singer
[August 14, 2002] Gadzoox released reference code to help related vendors create products that will be compatible with its Fibre Channel fabric switches.

Virtuozzo Sings to Please ISP-Planet Staff
[August 12, 2002] SWSoft has released HSB Complete 2.0, which promises to be a complete webhosting package. It resides on top of the company's innovative Linux-based Virtuozzo virtualization software.

Storage Basics: Comparing NAS and SAN Alex Goldman
[August 8, 2002] We compare Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Networks (SAN), two technologies that are far from similar, despite the confusing similarity of their acronyms.

Choosing a Firewall Best of ISP-Lists
[August 8, 2002] Most firewalls are not built by the major software brand names. Look to the ISP professionals on the ISP-Tech list as they recommend their favorite personal firewalls.

Sony Gets Smarter With Tape Storage Michael Singer
[July 30, 2002] The company said its new Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT) libraries can run 30 days hands-free, are compatible with most operating systems, and are capable of storing multiple terabytes of data.

Storage Basics: Buying Your First NAS System Alex Goldman
[July 25, 2002] We examine features and performance factors to consider when buying your first NAS system, focusing on the solutions that would be of interest to a small- and medium-sized ISP businesses.

New Sharks Patrol Storage Waters Brian Morrissey
[July 16, 2002] In a move to grab a bigger bite of market share in the competitive storage server space, IBM unveiled two new versions of its Shark enterprise storage server.

Sockeye's Updated Route Optimization Service Wayne Kawamoto
[July 15, 2002] Sockeye Networks' GlobalRouteSM 2.0 promises a new level of accuracy, control, and visibility over first generation route optimization products, all with a little help from Akamai Technologies.

Storage Basics Alex Goldman
[July 11, 2002] The first in a series of articles that will, with the insights of key industry players, cut through the hype and jargon surrounding the storage sector to identify the technologies that ISPs can utilize.

Multi-Homed Route Expeditors Wayne Kawamoto
[July 10, 2002] Amplify.net's iSurfJanus-RX family supports multiple public and private WAN lines of different access technologies and offers automatic route expediting, dynamic load balancing, and more.

Fiber/Ethernet Converter Wayne Kawamoto
[June 27, 2002] IMC Networks' new fiber converter offers optical power monitoring capabilities through bundled software that is compatible with Windows, HP OpenView, Solaris, and HP-UX.

Data Storage News InternetNews.com Staff
[June 26, 2002] IBM's nanotech storage device crams 1 trillion bits into a single aquare inch, storage news from Asia, and investments, large and small, in the storage sector.

DSL Provisioning Poetry ISP-Planet Staff
[June 21, 2002] Singing a song of simplified digital subscriber line provisioning, Fine Point Technolgies' WinPoET is like music to the ears of DSL resellers.

Storage Notes: Brocade Alex Goldman
[June 17, 2002] Seven years after it was founded, Brocade resides at the core of a maturing storage area network marketplace. Its dual goals are to educate customers and secure industry partnerships.

My Camera Must E-Mail Me Best of the ISP-Lists
[June 17, 2002] Members of the ISP-Colo list discuss using online cameras to watch the front door of a very important colocation center. If you're buying steel doors, set up a camera too.

Cheaper ADSL and T-1 Business Gateways Wayne Kawamoto
[June 14, 2002] Efficient Networks' new ADSL and T-1 business gateways are priced under $1,000 and designed to help service providers serve small businesses over ADSL and T-1 infrastructures.

Netopia's BeST Wayne Kawamoto
[June 12, 2002] Netopia's software promises to centrally manage installed broadband gateways and help service providers support customers over any type of Internet connection.

Coriolis' International Product Wayne Kawamoto
[June 6, 2002] Coriolis' improved OptiFlow platform promises to help Asian and European service providers deliver end-to-end Ethernet services and enable them to create applications for end users.

Single-Fiber Media Converter Wayne Kawamoto
[May 30, 2002] Omnitron's iConverter promises to double the capacity of fiber optic cabling for LAN and Metropolitan (MAN) Network applications and extend trunk distances over fiber to 40 km.

ASIC Added to Network Management Software Wayne Kawamoto
[May 28, 2002] Foundry Networks' JetScope promises to help service providers control network traffic without impacting network performance by combining purpose built hardware with software.

2 Gbps Fibre Channel SAN Array Wayne Kawamoto
[May 20, 2002] Raidtec's FibreArray 2104 promises to deliver four times the performance of 1Gb fibre channel products, maintain compatibility with current 1 Gbps fibre channel devices, and scale up to 34 TB.

Service Level Management Solution Wayne Kawamoto
[May 13, 2002] Pulsar xSP 1.5 promises to give service providers early warnings of SLA violations and the ability to interactively monitor all SLAs for all clients as well as VPN, VoIP, and openwave monitoring.

Gigabit Network Optimization Box Wayne Kawamoto
[May 8, 2002] Expand Networks announces the ACCELERATOR 6800, the company's first network optimization appliance that supports Gigabit Ethernet.

IKANO's Anti-Fraud System ISP-Planet Staff
[May 7, 2002] Every ISP has network abusers who sap the network's resources. Now, you can teach network abusers to be good dialup users, with a little help from IKANO.

Data Storage News InternetNews.com Staff
[May 2, 2002] Computer Associates, Veritas, EMC, IBM, Neartek, and FileTek make major announcements from new branding initiatives to new products to new funding.

Lucent's Video Over DSL Solution Wayne Kawamoto
[April 29, 2002] Lucent's new release of its Stinger DSL system promises to deliver IP-based Video over DSL, which should let service providers offer a new revenue-generating service.

Omnicluster's Check Point Partnership Amy Newman
[April 26, 2002] Server blade vendor OmniCluster Technologies is expanding its plug-and-play server blade offerings. The first of its new offerings is a security appliance scheduled to hit the market in May.

Application Builder for ISPs Wayne Kawamoto
[April 15, 2002] Unispeed's Netlogger Suite promises to help ISPs develop and deploy applications for marketing, billing, analytical CRM, Web statistics, fraud detection, and more.

F5's BIG-IP Link Controller 2000 Wayne Kawamoto
[April 1, 2002] F5 Networks' new controller promises high-end ISP load balancing and is designed for enhanced scalability, performance, and return on investment.

Security Comes First for SonicWALL Gretchen Hyman
[March 29, 2002] With the VPN hardware market expected to hit nearly $3 billion in revenues by 2005, SonicWALL, Inc. has been forging new alliances and developing new products.

Tsunami 100 Mbps 5.8 GHz Bridge Wayne Kawamoto
[March 27, 2002] Western Multiplex Corporation's Tsunami 100 Mbps 5.8 GHz Wireless Bridge promises wire speeds and fast Ethernet in a single band.

Enhanced Edge Router Product Family Wayne Kawamoto
[March 25, 2002] Tiara Networks' new routing products offer dual homed 10/100 Ethernet ports and enhanced options for DS3 access. A software upgrade now enables BGP4 routing.

Upgrade for Allot's NetEnforcer Wayne Kawamoto
[March 20, 2002] New capabilities include application recognition for multimedia, database, and P2P protocols and revamped reporting tools; all aimed at making service providers' business clients happier.

Sun's Initiatives Big and Small Ryan Naraine and Amy Newman
[March 20, 2002] Sun releases a new cut-priced server, announces a major acquisition to position itself for the upcoming battle royal in the Web services arena, and inks an alliance with Cisco.

Deciding When to Upgrade Best of ISP-Lists
[March 19, 2002] Members of the ISP-Linux list delve into that constant neverending topic, when to upgrade your operating system. Here, the discussion revolves around Red Hat Linux.

Can I Build My Own 1U Rackmount? Best of ISP-Lists
[March 14, 2002] Members of the ISP-Tech list share advice on building your own top-notch server. In the smallest space available on the open market, it's particularly crucial to get all the decisions right.

Big Blue Boasts 'Building Block' Server Amy Newman
[March 14, 2002] IBM's XPandonDemand system enables its latest multiprocessor server, called the x440, which can be fitted with up to 16 processors and up to 64 GB of memory.

Sniffing the Problems Wayne Kawamoto
[March 13, 2002] Sniffer Investigator offers network performance management features that identify and analyze network problems and may help prevent downtime.

Intel Releases Xeon MP Amy Newman
[March 13, 2002] At CeBIT 2002, Intel unveiled Xeon MP, the multiprocessor version of the 2-way Xeon chip it announced two weeks ago, starting at $1,117 in 1,000 unit quantities.

Easy Wireless Deployment With WaveRider ISP-Planet Staff
[March 12, 2002] WaveRider debuts two new wireless LMS Starter Kits as part of its product family designed to deliver cost-effective wire-free broadband solutions for home access and commercial connectivity.

Slicing the T-1 Pie Wayne Kawamoto
[March 11, 2002] Polycom's integrated access devices offer up to 16 POTS lines and up to 8 PVCs over a single channelized T-1 line for $1,759, making them viable for small office customer deployments.

List Server Basics Aaron Weiss
[March 8, 2002] Sure, you could administrate an e-mail list, and many people do. But would you really want to do a job that is the Internet equivalent of slaving over a sink full of dishes?

Quick Eagle's 4230 WAN Access Router Wayne Kawamoto
[March 5, 2002] Quick Eagle's 4230 WAN Access Router combines a router with a data service unit. The package offers enhanced network monitoring capabilities in a single, low-priced device.

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.

Windows Tips: File Extensions and Network Traffic Jim Freund
[March 4, 2002] We provide a neat little trick so let you display local network traffic in the Windows 2000 system tray, and show how to ensure all files are shown with their complete filenames.

Better Filtering for Cisco's PIX Firewalls Wayne Kawamoto
[February 27, 2002] An alliance between N2H2 and Cisco will provide Linux- and Microsoft-compatible software to enable new content filtering in Cisco firewalls, thereby improving productivity and security.

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.

QSOL.COM's Dual Athlon-Based 1U Servers Wayne Kawamoto
[February 25, 2002] New Q10, Q13, and Q14 Series dual processor Athlon-based servers promise powerful performance in a 1U platform.

Exabyte Drives for Raidtec NAS Wayne Kawamoto
[February 21, 2002] New compatibility between Exabyte and Raidtec products promise high-performance integrated backup capabilities for Raidtec's NAS server appliances.

IBM's PartnerWorld Products Amy Newman
[February 21, 2002] Big Blue added to its eServer line with the introduction of the eServer zSeries 800, and also announced a strategic partnership with VMware to enable server virtualization on all IBM servers.

Sun Campaign Aimed At Windows NT Customers Amy Newman
[February 21, 2002] Sun hopes its NT Upgrade Campaign will attract current Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 customers who will be left adrift when Microsoft's end-of-life plans for NT Server 4.0 take effect.

Index of Cisco Used Equipment Prices ITParade.com
[February 20, 2002] This index shows the average market value of products sold by used equipment vendors, as polled by ITParade.

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.

Out With The Old Gear; In With The V.92 ISP-Planet Staff
[February 14, 2002] CommWorks is offering rebates to ISPs that trade-in outdated equipment for new V.92 gear and other products. But hurry, this deal dies February 22, 2002.

MailSite Amps Up For ISPs Michael Singer
[February 14, 2002] Rockliffe released a special edition of its MailSite messaging product designed specifically to enable ISPs to generate revenues from value-added services such as anti-virus.

Case Study:
Deploying Business Services With SUN Cobalt Qube 3 Peter Ulander
[February 13, 2002] Comcast Communications chose the little blue server to deploy LAN services to small businesses and educational institutions, a market requiring a very low price point.

VESN's Hosted E-Mail Service ISP-Planet Staff
[February 12, 2002] The hosted e-mail service is priced on a per-mailbox-per-month basis, and should appeal to ISPs that have business customers but have not built an e-mail management interface.

IBM Expands Server Memory With MXT Amy Newman
[February 12, 2002] The hosted e-mail service is priced on a per-mailbox-per-month basis, and should appeal to ISPs that have business customers but have not built an e-mail management interface.

Wholesale POPs From Allegiance Telecom Wayne Kawamoto
[February 11, 2002] Allegiance Telecom's IP Aggregation service allows ISPs to obtain a presence in U.S. markets without dishing out the cash for a whole new Point of Presence (POP).

IQ 710 Frame Relay Upgrade Wayne Kawamoto
[February 7, 2002] ADTRAN has enhanced its IQ 710 Frame Relay device by adding traffic shaping capabilities to better prioritize demanding applications such as streaming media and voice.

Cray, Dell Pen Server Cluster Pact Amy Newman
[February 5, 2002] Cray and Dell Computer Corp. Monday announced a partnership under which Cray will market high-performance cluster solutions and services worldwide using Dell's PowerEdge server.

Rackmount Antivirus Device Wayne Kawamoto
[February 4, 2002] AVStripper, a stand-alone hardware product, promises to protect ISPs from viruses, is designed to be installed with no system integration, and is self-updating and scans all major Internet protocols.

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).

Lynx OC-3 5.3/5.8 GHz Bridge Wayne Kawamoto
[January 31, 2002] The Lynx OC-3 wireless bridge offers 155 Mpbs in the 5.3/5.8 Ghz U-NII band and is designed to supplement metro optical rings or to provide backhaul for wireless networks.

Sun Cobalt Targets Home Networks Amy Newman
[January 31, 2002] The product, which will retail for just over $1,000, supports VPN, PPTP, IPSec, DNS, DHCP, print spooling, and other services allowing ISPs to readily deploy small business networks.

Compaq Showcases Server Blades At Essex House Thor Olavsrud
[January 29, 2002] Compaq showcases its "Adaptive Infrastructure" strategy, which aims to turn server blades into "virtual data centers that are flexible, pervasive, cost-effective and universally manageable."

Free Trial Software for Cisco Routers Wayne Kawamoto
[January 28, 2002] HarmonyCOM's Harmony Subscriber Management Software will give Cisco customers a free trial evaluation and promises to significantly reduce service delivery times.

Visual Networks' Performance Management System Wayne Kawamoto
[January 25, 2002] Visual UpTime 7.0 and Visual IP InSight are designed to improve network performance and increase the availability of site-to-site public IP VPNs and dedicated IP services, like T1 feeds.

256 Kbps Over a TV Channel Wayne Kawamoto
[January 22, 2002] The Delta V uses a television broadcast signal to deliver 256 Kbs service to internet users in remote areas and lets customers stay with their current ISPs and e-mail accounts.

RackSaver's RS-1133 Dense Server Wayne Kawamoto
[January 18, 2002] Equipment maker's latest server promises to offer the speed and stability of Intel's Pentium 4 processor in a compact, rack-optimized solution and cluster computing scenarios.

Upgraded SANworks Data Replication Manager Clint Boulton
[January 15, 2002] Compaq's Fibre Channel and Internet Protocol (FC-IP) technology allows the transmission of SAN-based (Fibre Channel-based) data across global IP networks.

Build a Mesh WLAN Wayne Kawamoto
[January 14, 2002] CoWave Networks' MeshCast technology is being designed to help service providers by automating network design and by utilizing a higher availability mesh architecture.

IBM Offers Cheaper Financing Clint Boulton
[January 14, 2002] With 2002 tabbed as a year of recovery in high-tech, according to some analysts, Big Blue joins other PC manufacturers by offering financing deals as tech firms struggle to return to profitability.

Charging Fees For What Once Was Free ISP-Planet Staff
[January 10, 2002] The decision by free Web mail providers like Hotmail and Yahoo to start charging for a premium service has opened the door for ISPs to profit from offering premium e-mail services.

Global Traffic Management Appliance Wayne Kawamoto
[January 9, 2002] The Emissary appliance from Coyote Point Systems and Digital Envoy is designed to combine global load balancing with web content geo-targeting to enable bandwidth savings and the delivery of premium services.

Are You XPerienced? Best of ISP-Lists
[January 8, 2002] Members of the ISP-Tech list find different rates of XP adoption across the United States. You might expect, for example, that a retirement home would lag behind, but you would be wrong. . .

Radio Waves' Pro-Vider Base Stations ISP-Planet Staff
[January 4, 2002] Radio Waves, Inc. released a new line of base station antennas called the Pro-Vider series, designed for cost-conscious operators utilizing the unlicensed 2.4 GHz spectrum.

F5's Link Load Balancing Solution Wayne Kawamoto
[January 2, 2002] F5 Networks' BIG-IP Link Controller promises to intelligently manage traffic over redundant links and remove the complexities of deploying a multi-homed network.

2001

Connexn Technologies' Quick Capture Wayne Kawamoto
[December 24, 2001] The software is designed to help ISPs improve their revenue capture and automate manual processes, saving time and money.

P-Cube's 1U Service Engine ISP-Planet Staff
[December 24, 2001] The ServiceEngine 100 (SE100) is designed to enhance the product line's ability to assist ISPs in delivering premium, metered services.

A Boost for Lucent's Stinger Wayne Kawamoto
[December 20, 2001] The new Stinger Trunk Aggregation Module is designed to triple the performance capacity of broadband network designs and help providers grow their DSL networks.

Application Switch II From Radware Alex Goldman
[December 19, 2001] Radware's latest switching system is no incremental seasonal upgrade—it's an entirely new platform that represents a newfangled approach to intelligent routing.

Gigabit Ethernet-based WAN Manager Wayne Kawamoto
[December 17, 2001] Packeteer's OC-3 Class PacketShaper 8500 Series is designed to address the needs of service providers with application-intelligent bandwidth management at WAN speeds up to 200 Mbps.

Sockeye's Intelligent Routing Service Wayne Kawamoto
[December 12, 2001] Sockeye Networks claims its new routing service improves 70 percent of BGP routes and reduces bandwidth and network management costs up to 40 percent.

Self-Testing G.SHDSL Equipment Wayne Kawamoto
[December 3, 2001] Mindspeed Technologies' new ZipWireMulti DSL chips come with improved LoopWizard software that's designed to enable self-testing equipment.

Netility's G.SHDSL CPE Device Wayne Kawamoto
[December 3, 2001] The Netility 3400 auto-configuring G.SHDSL device promises to automatically support G.SHDSL, SDSL, or IDSL, and is compatible with top DSLAMs.

Improve Network Efficiency Wayne Kawamoto
[November 30, 2001] Opnix's Orbit 1000 Routing Intelligence System is designed to optimize IP connectivity for enterprise customers in data centers and other significant deployments.

Check Out the ACE*COMM Demo Wayne Kawamoto
[November 26, 2001] ACE*COMM's "Proof of Value" Program is designed to appeal to service providers who want to evaluate the company's $250,000 (and up) data management tool.

Network Management for Big SPs Alex Goldman
[November 19, 2001] Aprisma will announce its new SPECTRUM products on December 3rd, but we were allowed a glimpse of some of the new features that will be added to this mega network management software.

Network Monitoring Products from IXIA ISP-Planet Staff
[November 13, 2001] IXIA, a network hardware company, purchased Caimis, a network management software company. Just one week later, the combined companies release products that display synergy.

Better CopperEdge DSL Concentrators Wayne Kawamoto
[November 12, 2001] Copper Mountain enhances the capabilities of its CopperEdge 200 and 150 DSL Concentrators with support for voice, 10 and 100 Mbps Ethernet, most flavors of xDSL, and even T1 lines.

OmniCluster's Firewall on a Card Alex Goldman
[November 7, 2001] OmniCluster has put a hardware firewall on a PCI card, enabling ISPs to add a dedicated firewall to any webhosting computer that has an available slot.

IP Address Management Tool Wayne Kawamoto
[November 6, 2001] Emperative's CMX IP Address Manager helps broadband ISPs define and manage multi-tiered services and deliver applications. It is priced on a per-subscriber basis.

Database-in-a-box Deal ISP-Planet Staff
[November 5, 2001] Clustra, a database company, and RLX Technologies, a server blade company, have formed an alliance to put a six-node high-availability database into a single RLX box.

Managed Firewall and Content Filtering Wayne Kawamoto
[November 5, 2001] Ashley Laurent's BroadWay Managed Firewall and Content Filtering software is designed to offer an integrated management platform and security solution that ISPs can use to develop a new revenue stream.

Biometric Subscriber Authorization Software Wayne Kawamoto
[November 1, 2001] BioconX's biometric security solution protects systems and applications by authenticating workers and may now be leased through the company's network of VARs.

AAA for Premium Customers ISP-Planet Staff
[October 29, 2001] The Steel-Belted RADIUS Service Provider Edition 3.0 from Funk Software enables ISPs to track users, helps solve billing headaches, and anticipates the next step in the ongoing wireless Internet revolution.

Voice Services for ISPs by Subscription Wayne Kawamoto
[October 26, 2001] Denwa Communications' voice services package offers service providers the ability to add premium services to their pool of revenue streams, paying a monthly per-subscriber fee.

End-to-End Web Performance Testing Wayne Kawamoto
[October 19, 2001] Porivo's Web testing service helps ISPs monitor Web transactions, learn about the responsiveness of their sites to end-users, and simulate last-mile performance.

Mercury and nCipher Monitor Applications Wayne Kawamoto
[October 15, 2001] Topaz Prism with SSL support examines Secure Socket Layer data to passively monitor and optimize application traffic and performance in secure environments.

Eternity Arrives in the United States Alex Goldman
[October 12, 2001] Eternity is a concept with mystical overtones, but a company called No Magic is delivering its Eternity Virtual Secure Drive (EVSD) to ISPs with a guarantee that Epochs will secure data over time.

UNIX-Based Service Delivery to the Edge Wayne Kawamoto
[October 8, 2001] Corona Network's new UNIX-based Corona IP Service Manager (ISM) is designed to help ISPs offer enhanced IP services through the company's Corona IP Service Platform.

VoDSL Device Wayne Kawamoto
[October 3, 2001] Intersil's ISL6401 Endura Pulse Width Modulator generates talk and ring voltages for DSL and cable Internet subscribers. The product is being sold to OEMs.

Filanet Releases New InterJak Options ISP-Planet Staff
[September 24, 2001] With 802.11b growing nearly as popular as its wired counterparts, Filanet created three new types of its popular broadband access points to meet the growing demand for wireless connections.

Mega Network Management Alex Goldman
[September 20, 2001] Ever wonder what you would get if you could spend a million bucks on a network management system? The answer is CPLANE's IgnitionControl, delivering made-to-order services and big bandwidth at the click of a mouse.

3COM DSL Gateway Family Wayne Kawamoto
[September 10, 2001] The new product family provides ADSL and SDSL service and upgrades allow ISPs to add advanced services, including converged voice and data services, to DSL customers.

Beware of British Thermal Units in the United States Best of ISP-Lists
[August 30, 2001] Members of the ISP-Tech list share elaborate solutions to the simple problem of calculating how to keep your valuable racked equipment cool. But beware, BTUs can become big headaches.

Automatic Broadband Service Tester Wayne Kawamoto
[August 29, 2001] NetFlare automatically checks ISP services, and presents the test results in a Web screen visible to both consumer and help desk technician, reducing call center calls and escalation.

Security Service for Service Providers Wayne Kawamoto
[August 17, 2001] SecureWorks' Internet security service works with the SecureWorks iSensor appliance to prevent attacks before they happen with fingerprint correlation technology.

DSL Aggregator Wayne Kawamoto
[August 13, 2001] Astrocom Corporation's PowerLink-Iplus appliance promises improved load balancing and automatic line/ISP fail-over to ensure that a business served by multiple DSL lines stays connected.

64,000 Subscribers Connect to One Device Wayne Kawamoto
[August 9, 2001] The Issanni 2000 subscriber management system is designed to let service providers quickly and cost-effectively provision broadband subscribers and supports up to 64,000 users on a single device.

New ADSL Modems Wayne Kawamoto
[July 31, 2001] MaxGate's newest ADSL modems, the NetJet, are easy to configure, comply with ADSL standards (G.dmt, G.lite, and T1.413), and support Mac, Windows, and Unix platforms.

All Credit Card Processing on One Computer Wayne Kawamoto
[July 30, 2001] Maximized Software, Inc. released version 3.0 of its MaxCharge credit card processing software. The software is now an ActiveX component.

Why Buy New When Used Will Do? Drew Bird
[July 30, 2001] There's a bright side to the dark side of the economy—used equipment can be purchased cheap. We discuss and define brokers and auctions and detail what they can offer your ISP.

40 Gbps Network Processor Wayne Kawamoto
[July 23, 2001] Xelerated Packet Devices' new architecture promises networking at 40 Gbps (OC-768). The company is looking for manufacturing partners to round out its product suite.

SOCRATES 4 DSL Wayne Kawamoto
[July 12, 2001] Infineon Technologies' SHDSL transceiver, SOCRATES 4, is designed to provide lower power consumption, a lower chip count, and can be a DSLAM, repeater, or part of a multi-channel IAD.