Etheric Networks
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| Etheric Networks Incorporated | |
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| Type | Privately held corporation |
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| Founded | 2000 |
| Headquarters | Mountain View, California |
| Key people | W.Alexander Hagen, CEO |
| Industry | Internet & Communications |
| Products | Internet service |
| Website | www.etheric.net |
Etheric Networks is based in Mountain View, California and provides high speed Internet access to the greater Bay Area. It was a founding member of the first non governmental ISM and UNII band frequency coordination group (BANC), and often appears in the top 10 fastest ISPs in the world based on user speed tests on user DSL Reports Speed Tests.
Etheric is one of the few broadband fixed wireless service providers using license free spectrum with continually improving latency bandwidth and packet delivery.
Etheric is active in network management and monitoring software development and integration, and is also active in innovative electro mechanical base station designs. Etheric is currently developing a community VoIP service that includes the ability to analyze and modify the network to maintain CD grade audio conditions. Etheric routinely provides customers with two completely separate paths from their local site to the Internet backbone, using dual radio channels.
[edit] History
| Etheric Networks Broadband Fixed Wireless Timeline | |
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| 1999 | Etheric Networks business plan is created, technology is judged not ready for deployment. |
| May 2000 | Founder, W. Alexander Hagen, works as Research Engineer and Project Manager for NTT DoCoMo. |
| 2000-2002 | Founder files five patents on subjects related to ubiquitous wireless network access over the course of three years. |
| March 2003 | Etheric Networks launches its first generation broadband fixed wireless local loop WLL access network, a fully redundant local loop delivery system. This system is the first commercial network designed to maximize last mile throughput through a very radical bandwidth shaping system. |
| August 2003 | Network encompasses Silicon Valley and Peninsula. Company is cited in Silicon Valley Business Journal. Etheric enters ranks of top 10 fastest ISPs recorded by user tests on broadbandreports. |
| 2004 | Etheric deploys broadband fixed wireless self contained base station at a height of 750 feet above ground level, the highest known self contained license free broadband fixed wireless base station. Etheric Networks is cited in the Gilroy Dispatch and the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Network extends to cover Santa Cruz, Santa Clara and most of San Mateo counties, as well as pilot service in Alameda and Monterey Counties. |
| Spring 2005 | Etheric deploys its second generation network. The second generation has much improved error correction, higher peak data rates (up to 25 megabits per second), and greater frequency range. It also supports both smaller (10 MHz) and larger (40 MHz) channels and is based on 802.11 OFDM using a switching MAC. |
| December 1, 2005 | Etheric Networks primary communications tower overlooking Silicon Valley suffers massive electrical overvoltage in the most severe winter recorded in California in 100 years. Dozens of systems are destroyed, Antenna elements fuse. Even the Cisco 3550 is destroyed from the power surge. Company focus shifts to electro-mechanical survival in the most punishing conditions. All towers are overhauled, all systems upgraded - to ensure survivability. Work also substantially boosts network performance and throughput as unexpected biproduct. |
| 2006 | Etheric develops automated network fault detection and self healing. Of the 10 wireless local loop startups in the Bay Area, the largest remaining ISP focused on ISM and UNII band high speed wireless local loop service. |
[edit] See also
- WISP
- Broadband Reports
- Wireless Local Loop WLL
- ISP PLANET[ http://www.isp-planet.com/resources/backbones/etheric.html | ISP Planet, September, 2006]
- Live looping Festival Y2K4 Looping Festival
- Wireless Bay Area Network Coordination
- SVBJ on Etheric Silicon Valley Business Journal
