When the DoS Attack Reaches a Gigabit
[May 15, 2008] GigaFin says that although generalist security appliances can handle your everyday needs, you'll need its appliance when you're hit with a massive attack.

Reflexion Grows
[May 14, 2008] The anti-spam provider announces new services and adds power to its core engine.

ImageStream and Powercode Team Up To Fight P2P Traffic for ISPs
[May 13, 2008] A powerful partnership fights a real problem.

Hosted E-Mail Archiving Company Seeks SP Partners
[May 13, 2008] The eponymous Stephen Marsh says that his company, Smarsh, is prepared for anything after winning over the financial and health care sectors.

Rohan Jayasekera, Director of Tucows E-Mail Service
[May 12, 2008] With a new and evangelistic director of e-mail, Tucows is focusing on perfecting the basics of e-mail.

Procera Reloaded
[May 12, 2008] The company fires most of its staff, hires new people, and introduces what it claims is the most accurate Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) available today.

Link Technologies' PoweRouter
[May 9, 2008] Aiming to take on the Cisco 7200 series, Link Technologies has adapted MikroTik technology to high end deployments.

Ikano Communications Opens Google and Microsoft Channels
[May 8, 2008] The infrastructure provider to ISPs is adding an impressive array of services, something we've been advising ISPs to do for years.

F2C: Clay Shirky and Here Comes Everybody
[May 2, 2008] The Freedom to Connect conference concluded with a speech about the new freedoms of the internet and why those who hate the new freedoms will go after ISPs.

mindSHIFT Acquires groupSPARK
[May 1, 2008] They may share a common orthography, but these two companies have complimentary businesses, one selling high touch managed services, the other selling through the channel.

ADTRAN Adds Benefits for Mid Tier Channel Partners
[April 29, 2008] ADTRAN has a three tier partner program, and the middle tier just got better.

Why You Would Offer a Server for $1 for One Month
[April 28, 2008] We checked in with an innovative webhost to learn about the promotion and whether or not it succeeded.

F2C: Dewayne Hendricks
[April 25, 2008] This internet pioneer warned that the internet is being redefined for the benefit of a few powerful special interests.

The Network's Task Manager
[April 24, 2008] One company has built a system that takes advantage of information from every network element to tell support—and the managers—what's happening on your network.

F2C: Wireless Politics
[April 22, 2008] Michael Calabrese of the New America Foundation talked common sense on wireless and spectrum issues.

F2C: What the Data Says
[April 21, 2008] One data expert and one person campaigning for better data presented together at the Freedom to Connect conference.

F2C: The Politics of Open Fiber
[April 18, 2008] Presenters from Amsterdam, Burlington, and Lafayette said that open fiber is what their community needs.

F2C: Templeton Asks for Less Regulation
[April 15, 2008] The time period between 1996 and 2008 has shown that the U.S. system of government is so riddled with institutional corruption that a net neutrality law will only be co-opted by the telcos it is meant to govern.

At Freedom to Connect, Isenberg Asks Tech Industry to Save the World
[April 14, 2008] Isenberg likes the people who make up the technology industry and knows most of the important ones, but at the conference, he pointed out that an epic global disaster is a possible outcome, and asked us all to work together to avoid it.

NextPhase Prepares Careful Growth Plan
[April 7, 2008] And the company also warns that spectrum is becoming congested.

ADTRAN Adds GPON to Total Access 5000
[April 3, 2008] The company's massive multiservice switch adds optical to more traditional media, all on the same box.

A Data Center Migration
[March 27, 2008] Here's the conundrum: you have to be prepared for the unexpected.

Tucows' Domain Portfolio
[March 24, 2008] The company opens up its list of surnames for resale by webhosts and ISPs.

A Managed Hosting Contrarian
[March 20, 2008] Let's start telling it like it is! (Unlikely.)

Next Generation Backbone Radio
[March 17, 2008] DragonWave has updated its product line and now offers 1.6 Gbps throughput using two signals, one on each polarization.

Gordano Version 15
[March 11, 2008] The modular mail system improves its collaboration and webmail features, and adds several other features you're not expecting to see here.

The Largest and Smallest ISPs Face Similar Wireless Challenges
[March 10, 2008] Alcatel-Lucent's carrier class 9900 Wireless Network Guardian, announced today, works in the core to monitor application performance on wireless networks.

AppLogic 2.2
[March 6, 2008] This visually appealing utility computing system gets another feature boost.

Practical Asterisk
[March 4, 2008] We learned a few common sense lessons from a business-focused VoIP provider.

Propel's Personal Bandwidth Manager
[March 3, 2008] Introducing the tool that shows the user when the problem's on the PC, not on your network.

Selling SAAS to the SMB
[February 29, 2008] A newly hired expert at a major player explains his plan.

WSTA Threat Seminar: Insider Threat Detection and Response
[February 21, 2008] At the Wall Street Technology Association seminar on threat management, one speaker spoke about that most insidious of threats and said that technology can help you thwart it.

WSTA Threat Seminar: Cybercrime
[February 19, 2008] "I'm working to identify the people who might attack you," he said, before telling how he does it and who they are.

Wall Street Technology Association: Threat Management Overview
[February 14, 2008] Cultures may be very different around the world, but the role of the security professional is changing in every nation in response to threats that are evolving even faster.

The Broadband Network Aggregator
[February 12, 2008] Want to have both a T-1 and a DSL line? Want to use both DSL and cable or two lines of each? This new box, announced today, can do it all, with a recipe that includes a secret algorithm and a truffle.

Cisco's Data Center of the Future
[February 7, 2008] Ten gigabits per second today, 100 gigabits per second in the future, and, if you still need them, the single gigabit connections of a few months ago, all fit in the picture. Then, add services through an orchestrated system that can quickly bring online the necessary storage and network assets.

Gigamon's Multifunction Switches
[February 5, 2008] These boxes can switch massive bandwidth in a variety of configurations, change on the fly, and support header-based filtering as well.

Mirapoint Upgrades Its Products
[January 31, 2008] The premium provider of messaging appliances throws the latest in hardware and software at e-mail, that vital service that is also the biggest headache for ISPs.

IronPort Says Your Job Has Changed
[January 30, 2008] The company says e-mail security threats have evolved so far and so fast that the job of the mail administrator has changed fundamentally, and it has upgraded its e-mail appliances to keep pace.

Zoom's DSL Partner Program
[January 29, 2008] The company says it serves independent ISPs better than the Bell-focused vendors.

M5 Networks Announces National Partner Program
[January 28, 2008] Take advantage of the collected experience of 8 years of writing gathered in this website.

NeuStar Offers to Manage Your DNS
[January 22, 2008] The company adds features to a service most ISPs take for granted and some regard as a chore.

Request for Feedback for an ISPCON Session
[January 17, 2008] What's your top sales or marketing concern?

DSL Forum Makes IPTV Easier
[January 15, 2008] The standards body says that ISPs are eager to deploy IPTV, but have many concerns about it too.

Featuretisements
[January 14, 2008] One company is building a mechanism to deliver ads that it says users are grateful for.

Why I'm Attending the Freedom to Connect Conference
[January 11, 2008] Every year, I attend this conference in order to take a step back and look at the big picture, the future of the internet.

Why Are You Still Using Just One Phone Number?
[January 4, 2008] Several technologies, all of them simple, could make tech support less stressful for ISPs and their customers.

Jaguar Communications' Rural Fiber Network
[December 21, 2007] This is the sort of company that should be in every rural area in America; the obstacles it has overcome show why there is still a digital divide between city and country in the U.S.

PAETEC Plans to Offer More With Upcoming McLeod Merger
[December 20, 2007] As this T-1 specialist expands its product line, it provides a textbook example of an ISP expanding its portfolio as legacy markets become commoditized.

Cisco and IronPort: Filters Are Not Enough
[December 18, 2007] A recent report from IronPort and its parent company Cisco says that threats are not only growing, they are changing in ways that will force ISPs to adopt new anti-malware technologies.

EarthLink Applauds FCC Denial of Verizon Petition
[December 5, 2007] The FCC found that Verizon faces limited competition in six major metro markets.

ISPCON: Making the SMB Sale
[November 26, 2007] In his ISPCON presentation, this experienced marketer showed not only how to sell, but also what to sell.

Editorial: Big Ideas to Chew On
[November 21, 2007] ISPs are not implementing some interesting technologies. We recommend giving them a second look to see if they might fit in your operation.

ISPCON: The 700 MHz Auction
[November 19, 2007] A multitalented group of presenters described how the auction for this spectrum will work.

From VAR to VoIP Provider
[November 16, 2007] This company has parlayed its skill with Cisco and Microsoft products into a new VoIP-based business.

Windows Server 2008 for Webhosts
[November 14, 2007] Microsoft says the latest iteration of Windows Server 2008 has been designed with feedback from webhosts, and has extensive channel support.

Doing a Lot
[November 13, 2007] Multifunction appliances have aided this WISP in unexpected ways, and also solved the problems they were bought to solve.

One More Anti-Spam Tool
[November 9, 2007] A company with an intriguing pedigree adds a new idea to the anti-spam arms race.

ISPCON Keynote: State of the Webhosting Industry
[November 8, 2007] This was the business-focused keynote at ISPCON, filled with ideas to help you increase webhosting revenue and reduce waste.

Everyone.net Embraces Web Services
[November 7, 2007] There's a slick new Web 2.0 AJAX-based GUI, and also new services that the better back end makes possible.

Carrier Class Channel Tracking
[November 6, 2007] If you're a tier 1 carrier, you offer many services, some of them through partnerships. Software can check that everyone agrees on who's doing what, and when they get paid for it.

ISPCON: Sell to the Channel
[November 5, 2007] A webhost with many VAR resellers explained how to open that sales channel.

The 50 Minute ISPCON MBA
[November 2, 2007] Few ISPCON speakers challenged themselves to offer so many ideas in so short a time.

Book Preview:
SELLECOM: 101 Ideas for Marketing in the Telecom Jungle
[November 1, 2007] We were treated to a sample chapter from a yet to be published book written by a veteran telecom reseller and marketing strategist.

CanIt Anti-Spam Version 4.0
[October 29, 2007] New features focus on scalability and usability as this product with its open source base finds favor with ever larger organizations.

ISPCON: A Broker's Advice to Sellers
[October 23, 2007] A veteran talked about how to get the deal, and also described the broker's greatest fear during a deal.

Mesh Networks Thrive at Historic Resorts
[October 22, 2007] Firetide's mesh equipment has found success in several verticals, but the vertical that's of greatest interest to WISPs is hospitality.

ISPCON Keynote: Dave Schaeffer, Founder and CEO of Cogent Communications
[October 19, 2007] This was the rabble rousing keynote at ISPCON. Schaeffer wants to shake up the industry, and in the keynote, he discussed the changes he'd like to see.

SOLERA Says CALEA Equipment Can Do More
[October 18, 2007] The company understands that ISPs find the investment painful and is showing that a packet capture system can do more than CALEA compliance.

A Better Path to the SMB for Asterisk
[October 17, 2007] This ISPCON announcement shows how an acquisition and a change to an existing product will help ISPs sell Asterisk-based services to small business customers.

Vyatta Announces Gains in Service Provider Market
[October 16, 2007] Open source routers have enabled service providers to better tailor their services to their customers.

Editorial: State of the ISP Industry
[October 12, 2007] ISPs are examing all options as they try to raise Average Revenue Per User (ARPU), a fundamental metric of ISP success.

Hosted Services for ISPs
[October 9, 2007] Alianza's offering seems complete, but company's CEO wants to offer even more.

Covad's Survival Tactics
[October 5, 2007] Its rivals were shut down, NorthPoint by AT&T and Verizon, but Covad has survived. The company's survival tactics can and should be imitated by independent ISPs.

Editorial: Don't Be Like EarthLink
[October 4, 2007] EarthLink's in a lot of trouble right now, and provides valuable lessons to all independent ISPs.

RackSpace Gets Webmail.us
[October 2, 2007] Webmail.us is eager to do more in the business services space, taking webmail to the next level.

How They Got $480 Billion in Spectrum Giveaways
[October 1, 2007] We need more research like this, focused on the long term effects of Washington D.C.'s short term telecommunications policies, which are greased with graft.

FireEye Announces Bot Prevention System
[September 27, 2007] This unusual system studies bots by allowing them to infect virtual machines, then destroys the machines and the bots within them, and uses the data against the flood.

ImageStream and PowerCode Announce Partnership
[September 24, 2007] The router maker and OSS software developer have begun a beautiful friendship, encouraged by their WISP customer base.

The 1 Gbps Full Duplex Radio
[September 20, 2007] These radios aren't new, but it took us some time to believe they were real.

CloudShield Predicts Bright Future With New Investment
[September 17, 2007] With a carrier class investor, and a flexible product, the company aims for cash flow positive next year.

Reflexion 5.2
[September 6, 2007] Version 5.2 is coming soon, adding important tools to the comprehensive anti-spam arsenal that is the company's product.

Hosted VoIP Partner Program
[August 31, 2007] There are several companies like this one—hosted VoIP providers, aggressive and focused—but this is the only one we know of that works with VARs and ISPs.

As Threats Change, ISPs Need New Software
[August 30, 2007] First it was anti-virus, then anti-spam, and later anti-spyware. Sana Security offers up the latest update as a whole new front opens in the war on spyware.

WSTA Data Center Seminar: Data Center Virtualization
[August 28, 2007] Yes, virtualization saves money. But a major webhost talks about the issues that the virtualization vendors don't like to discuss.

WSTA Data Center Seminar: Data Center Real Estate
[August 27, 2007] An expert talks about everything you need to consider when choosing where to put your data center.

WSTA Data Center Seminar: Sabet Elias, Lehman Brothers CTO
[August 24, 2007] The issues that the CTO of Lehman Brothers faces are similar to those you face in your data center, except for the all the buy and sell orders each day.

WSTA Data Center Seminar: Keynote Presentation
[August 23, 2007] Data center designers shared their vision of the future.

When Your AS Solution's Not Enough
[August 21, 2007] Many ISPs have a solution to spam that's worked in the past. It's a combination of free open source components, and it's not as good as it was.

The Network Has the Services
[August 16, 2007] When we wrote about this service delivery network last year it was reinventing itself. Just one year later, it has a full suite of services and is building the delivery channel.

Spam's Next Escalation
[August 13, 2007] As the fight against bot-based spam continues, so-called "legitimate marketers" are turning nasty to get through the filter—or paying pennies to ISPs and the U.S. government.

MagicMail Anti-Spam from Linux Magic
[August 10, 2007] If these features are so obviously good, why doesn't every anti-spam product have them?

Outsource Your Operations and Support System (OSS)
[August 9, 2007] As the SaaS trend progresses, you can now rent hosted software that will run your billing, authentication, and other core services.

ISPCON: P2P VPN
[August 7, 2007] One of the more unusual companies at ISPCON was delivering a new kind of P2P network from South Africa.

ISP-Planet's Blog: Access
[August 3, 2007] Check it out and let us know what you think of it.

Barracuda's Message Archiver
[August 2, 2007] The company that disrupted pricing in several other e-mail industries gets into the latest fad with a sharp appliance.

SingTel's Bets on Southeast Asia are Paying Off
[July 31, 2007] The company is growing fast, and says it's here in the U.S. not to win business from the ILECs, but to help carriers provide access to the fastest growing nations in the world.

Internet Service Providers' Association of South Africa
[July 26, 2007] Competition is tough in the U.S., but in South Africa, Wi-Fi LANs were, until recently, illegal.

RatePoint's Business Service Launches
[July 24, 2007] The people who built GeoTrust (and sold it to VeriSign) have some ideas about how to change a key online service: rating online businesses.

Network Contention Specialist
[July 23, 2007] This company's getting attention right now for its CALEA solution, but the wireless AP that's in development may be the big story here.

With AirEqualizer, NetEqualizer Returns to its WISP Roots
[July 23, 2007] This AP will solve a common problem in a novel way.

VoIP Ranking by Subscriber: Q1 2007
[July 19, 2007] This quarter's numbers are interesting, but next quarter's numbers will be more interesting, as we explain below.

As SunRocket Dies, VoIP Providers Must Differentiate Themselves
[July 18, 2007] In the VoIP industry, the FUD is winning as message board threads spiral out of control in the wake of SunRocket's sudden demise.

Subscriber Values: Q1 2007
[July 17, 2007] As consolidation continues, and disclosure of subscriber data remains poor, there are fewer and fewer ISPs on our charts.

Top 21 U.S. ISPs by Subscriber: Q1 2007
[July 16, 2007] AOL is dethroned as not one but two ISPs surpass it (the champion duopolists). However, Time Warner is listed twice on our list.

E-Mail Archiving
[July 13, 2007] Speech software meets enterprise security on this new twist on a trendy topic.

ISPCON: Hosted Security for SMB Customers
[July 12, 2007] Security needs constant patching, updating, and upgrading. So do it all in your NOC and sell a hosted service.

ISPCON Keynote: Focus on Voice
[July 10, 2007] Dan Hoffman of M5 said that if you've identified a great business opportunity, you can ignore other opportunities that are merely good.

P2P Enabler Claims Last Mover Advantage
[July 9, 2007] This carrier class box based on Dell and EMC hardware promises to save ISPs money and could also change the economics of the internet.

ISPCON: Twenty-Three Website Wins
[July 6, 2007] When Tucows talks, people listen, especially when the subject is one that the speaker knows very very well.

Sutus
[July 5, 2007] This company's small business in a box allows ISPs to deliver everything including VoIP.

ISPCON Keynote Speaker Offers to Monetize Search for ISPs
[July 3, 2007] Former Army major turned CEO Clarence E. Briggs III told ISPCON that the payment structure of the billion dollar search advertising market encourages theft, and offered his solution.

ISPCON: Growing Your Hosted Business Messaging Service
[July 2, 2007] Want to make money from business customers? In order to profit, you must get this service right.

ISPCON: Making Your ISP More Valuable to a Buyer
[June 29, 2007] This person has been helping ISPs, CLECs, WISPs, webhosts, and cable companies find a buyer since 1994.

Fast Anti-Spam
[June 18, 2007] It's based on heuristics, like SpamAssassin, but claims to be 30 times faster.

Building a Premium Webhost
[June 15, 2007] With an early start, this company has progressed from hosting personal websites to being the anchor tenant in a local data center. It's all about offering more to customers, and getting more from them.

Introducing SysMaster
[June 14, 2007] This networking equipment provider has branched out into the big growth areas for ISPs, including wireless and IPTV equipment.

3Tera Releases AppLogic 2.0
[June 12, 2007] The grid computing specialist and former ISPCON star releases a slew of updates to its core product.

CALEA Veteran Offers Hosted Service
[June 11, 2007] Aqsacom has been helping telcos handle CALEA since 1994. Now, through a joint venture, it can help you too.

ISPCON Policy Update: Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) of 1994
[June 8, 2007] This time, the FBI showed up at ISPCON.

ISPCON Policy Update: The Law and the WISPs
[June 8, 2007] At ISPCON's regular policy and government update, there was lots of news for wireless ISPs, and some of it was good news.

Propel Delivers Wireless Acceleration
[June 5, 2007] It was an elaborate demo but it made its point. The technology allows ISPs to deliver VoIP and web service even over congested networks. And it works on other forms of broadband too.

The Original Hosted Exchange
[June 4, 2007] There have been imitators, competitors, and plenty of alternatives, but this company was the first to offer this service, its CEO told us at ISPCON.

Ten Ways to Improve Data Center Efficiency
[June 1, 2007] At ISPCON session S5, panelists said that most data centers could make significant changes and realize real improvements.

We Asked for More
[May 31, 2007] This is an e-mail archiving system that looks good and simple, but ISPs would want just one more feature.

Tucows Has Work to Do
[May 25, 2007] In its ISPCON vendor session, Tucows described the company's product road map, which focuses on a better and faster product development cycle.

The Box That Stops Floods
[May 24, 2007] This company says it has a different, better method for stopping attacks on your data center.

Reflexion Total Control 5.0
[May 18, 2007] The latest upgrade from the anti-spam provider adds security and ISP-friendly features.

Secure64 DNS
[May 18, 2007] To truly lock down your DNS servers, Secure64 says you need a proprietary OS and the added security features only available on an Intel Itanium-based server.

Nominum Promises Not To Destroy Internet With New Service
[May 17, 2007] These are the people who wrote DNS BIND. They helped build the ISOC, ARIN, and the other institutions that keep the internet running. So what they do with nonexistent URLs will not, they promise, do harm.

Vipul's Update
[May 15, 2007] What began as Vipul's Razor has become a global corporation serving telecoms giants worldwide, but a new product with a SpamAssasssin tie-in brings the company back to its roots.

Editorial: Today is CALEA Day
[May 14, 2007] New rules go into effect, with consequences for the internet industry that are entirely unpredictable.

Trusted Third Party: NeuStar
[May 11, 2007] At first there were only two (NeuStar and VeriSign). We talked to one to find out about the original TTP service.

Tracking Every Action in the Enterprise
[May 10, 2007] Content filtering and management has become far more sophisticated, allowing companies to write their data policies into code and enforce them with software.

Hoffman's M5nifesto
[May 9, 2007] The founder of the largest VoIP provider in the Northeast showed how to take VoIP to the next level.

Carrier Class Application Intelligence
[May 8, 2007] So you already measure network performance. Here's how you'd measure and troubleshoot the applications that run on that fine network if you had a five- or six-figure budget for it.

Think You Can Put Off CALEA? Read the Rules!
[May 7, 2007] Filing for an extension to CALEA is not at all like filing for an extension to your taxes. You will need a lawyer even if you're not in compliance.

Managing MGCP
[May 3, 2007] It's not everyone's protocol of choice, but if you're using MGCP to deliver business VoIP service, there's a box to manage your deployment.

Your Vendor Wants You to Sell Well
[April 30, 2007] This equipment maker understands that selling SMB VoIP services may be new to service providers, and it has a plan to help handle the unfamiliar.

SS8's Carrier Class CALEA Compliance Solution
[April 27, 2007] If you've got a massive network and you need to comply with the May 14, 2007 CALEA deadline, this is one of the companies you might call.

Web Services for Technical Support
[April 26, 2007] One company wants to deliver constantly updatable support direct to users' desktops.

A Description of Lawful Intercept and CALEA
[April 24, 2007] We talked to a guy who's so enmeshed in this stuff that he's got a blog about it: demystifying li.

IP Fabrics' CALEA Compliance Box
[April 20, 2007] A surveillance specialist releases a powerful appliance with proprietary technology priced to be within reach of a rural telco or ISP.

Spamming Our Lists
[April 19, 2007] A company that is spamming our lists is hurting itself, and polluting the internet.

Solera Networks' CALEA Compliance Device
[April 19, 2007] A box based on OpenCALEA offers a relatively low starting price point.

How to Sell VoIP to Small Business Customers
[April 17, 2007] A VoIP provider is announcing that it has developed a marketing program for its channel partners to help them sell VoIP to small business, getting past the "don't waste my damn time" objection.

CALEA: The Equipment Makers
[April 6, 2007] As warranted wiretap of VoIP becomes the law, every network in the U.S. must comply. Some equipment makers see an opportunity.

ImageStream's CALEA Solution
[April 6, 2007] ISP-Planet Exclusive: ImageStream is putting together a free update for its routers that will enable ISPs and other providers to become CALEA compliant.

Summary of the Freedom to Connect Conference by Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic
[March 30, 2007] Science Fiction novelist Bruce Sterling and his wife, feminist Belgrade-based journalist Jasmina Tesanovic, concluded the conference with vigor. America is a nice place, but the telecommunications system sucks.

PacketExchange's Private Internet
[March 29, 2007] Need uncontested bandwidth? This company has it all connected.

You Cannot Trust Your Infected Customers
[March 26, 2007] Simplicita has a software solution to help you make your bot-infected customers get help from you.

Our National Broadband Strategy is Hope Without Action
[March 23, 2007] The Freedom to Connect Conference saw calls for a "national broadband strategy" and although it's true that the current non-strategy is failing, it's not clear what would succeed. FCC Commissioner Adelstein shared his hopes for the future.

DragonWave's Smaller, Better Radio
[March 20, 2007] As components get smaller, performance increases and operating expenses decline. A pattern familiar to the computer industry has now arrived in the wireless equipment space.

Government Wants ISPs to be Better Parents
[March 19, 2007] A conservative think tank author warned of yet another government power grab.

The Internet Uncertainty Principle
[March 19, 2007] Put aside all of those internet research reports for a moment and think about the data we'd like to have but cannot obtain. The absence of data creates uninformed policy, but common sense dictates an obvious solution to broadband problems as the United States falls farther and farther behind.

Meinrath Says Everything Else is Stupid
[March 12, 2007] He's got a pretty good idea based on a simple question: why is bandwidth priced differently across the U.S.? Isn't it fungible?

The Benkler of Networks
[March 9, 2007] The author of The Wealth of Networks says that the biggest changes caused by the internet are changes we already take for granted.

The Vermont Way Forward
[March 8, 2007] The plan of Vermont's Republican governor for universal statewide broadband is extremely ambitious and not very detailed.

Barracuda Networks Updates Image Scanning in Anti-Spam Engine
[March 6, 2007] The low cost provider that ISPs love for its clear pricing policy has upgraded image scanning to fight the latest in spammer tactics.

Editorial: You Are Your Business
[March 5, 2007] A business that you own and run is work that never ends. But this work that is always with you should free you to do what you want, not be a chore you hate.

Editorial: Doubts About Net Neutrality
[March 2, 2007] For a phrase whose meaning is still disputed, this idea has generated a lot of buzz and could generate some very flawed legislation.

Show Your Customers What You Do
[March 1, 2007] It's a well-known problem for ISPs: if you're security's so good that your customers are never threatened, they'll think they can leave for a cheaper, less safe provider. One company offers a solution to the problem.

Editorial: We Need Usage-Based Pricing
[February 27, 2007] If the phone and cable companies stopped predatory pricing and advertised what they really offer, there would be no need for new laws—only the enforcement of the laws that already exist.

Preview: The Freedom To Connect Conference
[February 26, 2007] A gathering of thinkers and legislators (and even some who are both) will discuss the future that nobody's ready for, the next round of disruptive changes, even as those changes are already beginning.

FCC White Space Proceeding: What's at Stake
[February 23, 2007] The FCC has spectrum to allocate, and that means big money will talk, but there's a chance that the WISP industry can get some of the additional unlicensed spectrum it wants and needs.

Action Item for WISPs: File With the FCC for More Unlicensed Spectrum
[February 23, 2007] WISPs need more unlicensed spectrum, but so far barely a dozen have filed comments with the FCC arguing in favor of it. If WISPs fail to act, the usual monopolies will set the rules, again.

Analyze Everything With One Piece of Software
[February 22, 2007] What started as a simple wireless network analysis engine is incorporating ever more features as networks grow and customers demand more from applications.

Working With Digium
[February 20, 2007] Digium is serving larger customers than ever, and now has a partner program that could provide ISPs large and small with valuable sales leads.

P2P Can Be Your Friend
[February 15, 2007] Too many ISPs are fighting a losing war with their own customers' P2P usage. Here's one solution.

An OS For Switches
[February 12, 2007] Switches don't need complex algorithms, updated daily, to catch most threats. Instead, the nimble application of human intelligence through elegant code can achieve real results.

Software is a Business System
[February 8, 2007] Software developed for ISPs can help you streamline your business, aligning your systems with your work processes in a challenging but rewarding endeavor that Jupitermedia and the internet industry are calling business IT alignment. Here's an example.

BelAir Embraces Multiple Radios
[February 6, 2007] Just as some mesh builders move from one radio to two, BelAir says one and two are good, but check out four.

BelAir Builds Partnerships
[February 6, 2007] The wireless equipment maker is talking to VARs, OEMs, and, of course, ISPs. Yes, there's a platinum/gold/silver partnership program, but there's more, too.

The Meta Value-Added Service
[February 5, 2007] A company has developed a service that helps you deliver value-added services.

Keeping an Eye on Marketers
[February 2, 2007] This vital tool in any anti-spam arsenal has been around for years, and is signing partnerships with many companies you know and even with some you like.

Cloudmark Claims Latest Release Virtually Eliminates Spam
[February 1, 2007] Cloudmark Authority 2.0 boasts serious technology upgrades as abusive messages, the company says, now exceed 90 percent of all mail messages.

Verio Adds Data Backup
[January 31, 2007] The massive wholly owned subsidiary of NTT adds a service to its already large portfolio.

Firetide Goes Long
[January 30, 2007] Firetide's latest mesh nodes are able to provide either higher short range bandwidth or dependable (but smaller) long range bandwidth.

EarthLink Protection Control Center 2.0
[January 29, 2007] Faced with new threats, the largest independent ISP in the U.S. upgrades threat prevention with technology from Sana Security.

Manage Your Smart Network
[January 26, 2007] Want to know the application, source, and destination of every packet sent and received by 500,000 customers? Just install this box on your network.

Ellacoya's Data
[January 26, 2007] The company's announcing a new traffic management box, and that's the big news, but the company also shared some insights from its cache of real usage data from millions of internet users.

The Planet's New Reseller Program
[January 25, 2007] Having absorbed a big acquisition, the company prepares to grow its shared server products by growing the channel, which means working with you.

Editorial: Know Your Politicians
[January 23, 2007] You can benefit from knowing your local, state, and federal representatives.

Editorial: Know Your Local VARs
[January 22, 2007] Business services are being touted as the biggest opportunity for ISPs in 2007. You should do this, but you don't have to go it alone, although you may choose to do so.

AASP Adds Filtering and Archiving
[January 19, 2007] The ISP cooperative focuses its buying power on helping ISPs solve some basic security issues.

SingleHop Extends the Dedicated Servers Trend
[January 18, 2007] Another webhost upgrades its service to offer more to high end customers, part of a trend that is changing the industry.

The Technology to Run a Massive Mail Operation
[January 16, 2007] In a chat with the CTO, we learned about the technology used to manage 30 million mailboxes.

Disintermediating the Web Design Firm
[January 11, 2007] When web design is integrated into software that is delivered as a service, no tech knowledge is needed (but design talent is not supplied).

Editorial: Anticipating 2007
[January 10, 2007] We cannot tell you what will happen in the future, but we can show you where we're looking for the year's big stories.