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

Celestial Software's AbsoluteTelnet Jeff Goldman
[April 30, 2008] AbsoluteTelnet was launched over a decade ago, and continues to compete strongly in an increasingly crowded marketplace.

The Network's Task Manager Alex Goldman
[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.

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

ISPs Want Reliable Speed Tests Best of ISP-Lists
[March 25, 2008] This is not a new problem, but as ISPs offer faster speeds and a larger menu of options, users are becoming more demanding.

Gordano Version 15 Alex Goldman
[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 Alex Goldman
[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 Alex Goldman
[March 6, 2008] This visually appealing utility computing system gets another feature boost.

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

The Broadband Network Aggregator Alex Goldman
[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 Alex Goldman
[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 Alex Goldman
[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 Alex Goldman
[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 Alex Goldman
[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 Alex Goldman
[January 29, 2008] The company says it serves independent ISPs better than the Bell-focused vendors.

m0n0wall, an Open Source Lightweight Firewall Jeff Goldman
[January 24, 2008] Manuel Kasper's embedded FreeBSD-based firewall software package is especially attractive to WISPs and small ISPs

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

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

Cisco and IronPort: Filters Are Not Enough Alex Goldman
[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.

Walking the Tightrope Gerry Blackwell
[December 11, 2007] The next big battleground in the increasingly competitive ISP market will be the same as it always is: e-mail.

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

Carrier Class Channel Tracking Alex Goldman
[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.

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

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

FireEye Announces Bot Prevention System Alex Goldman
[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.

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

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

As Threats Change, ISPs Need New Software Alex Goldman
[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.

When Your AS Solution's Not Enough Alex Goldman
[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.

MagicMail Anti-Spam from Linux Magic Alex Goldman
[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) Alex Goldman
[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 Alex Goldman
[August 7, 2007] One of the more unusual companies at ISPCON was delivering a new kind of P2P network from South Africa.

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

Network Contention Specialist Alex Goldman
[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 Alex Goldman
[July 23, 2007] This AP will solve a common problem in a novel way.

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

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

P2P Enabler Claims Last Mover Advantage Alex Goldman
[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.

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

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

Introducing SysMaster Alex Goldman
[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 Alex Goldman
[June 12, 2007] The grid computing specialist and former ISPCON star releases a slew of updates to its core product.

Propel Delivers Wireless Acceleration Alex Goldman
[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.

VoIPowering Your Office:
Trixbox, the Complete PBX-in-a-Box Carla Schroder
[June 4, 2007] Trixbox 2.2 was released in March 2007; a noteworthy release cram-full of improvements.

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

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

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

Secure64 DNS Alex Goldman
[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 Alex Goldman
[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 Alex Goldman
[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.

Trusted Third Party: NeuStar Alex Goldman
[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 Alex Goldman
[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.

Carrier Class Application Intelligence Alex Goldman
[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.

Managing MGCP Alex Goldman
[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.

SS8's Carrier Class CALEA Compliance Solution Alex Goldman
[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 Alex Goldman
[April 26, 2007] One company wants to deliver constantly updatable support direct to users' desktops.

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

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

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

DragonWave's Smaller, Better Radio Alex Goldman
[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.

Barracuda Networks Updates Image Scanning in Anti-Spam Engine Alex Goldman
[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.

Show Your Customers What You Do Alex Goldman
[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.

Analyze Everything With One Piece of Software Alex Goldman
[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.

P2P Can Be Your Friend Alex Goldman
[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 Alex Goldman
[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 Alex Goldman
[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.

Keeping an Eye on Marketers Alex Goldman
[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 Alex Goldman
[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.

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

Manage Your Smart Network Alex Goldman
[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.

Cacti Jeff Goldman
[January 17, 2007] The network graphing solution Cacti was designed to provide more ease of use than RRDtool and more flexibility than MRTG.

Disintermediating the Web Design Firm Alex Goldman
[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).

Routers for the ISP and WISP Best of ISP-Lists
[January 3, 2007] WISPs discuss the routers they use, focusing on price and support.

Aggressively Priced Load Balancer Alex Goldman
[December 18, 2006] An aggressive equipment maker's new device disrupts pricing at the low end of the load balancing market.

• Caching Appliance Style: Quantex WebXL 2000   [January 10, 2000]  
• Fail-Safe Caching: InfoLibria DynaCache   [January 17, 2000]  
• NICS with Integrated Management: Compaq TaskSmart   [January 24, 2000]
• Predictive Caching: CacheFlow 545   [February 3, 2000]
• Multiprotocol Caching: NetApp NetCache C720s   [February 14, 2000]
  
• Do-It-Yourself Caching: Squid 2.3   [February 28, 2000]
  
• Series Wrap-Up   [March 6, 2000]
  

Review Series:
Network Management Systems  LisaPhifer

• NetPlus AutoManage [July 5, 2000]  
• ipMonitor   [July 12, 2000]  
• SNMP ToolChest, Silver   [July 19, 2000]  
• MG-SOFT NetInspector, MIB Browser [August 9, 2000]  
• Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold   [August 16, 2000]  
• Castle Rock SNMPc   [August 31, 2000]  
• Series Wrap-Up   [October 5, 2000]  

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