FORETHOUGHT.net hires new director of business development to help navigate its growth in the multi-tenant and multi-family markets. FORETHOUGHT.net is one of Colorado’s largest independent internet providers and it is growing. The Denver-based communications provider announced today that it hired its director of business development, Patrick Mann. Mr. Mann joins FORETHOUGHT.net with close to 20 award winning years of sales and sales management experience in the IP/Telco industry working with national providers such as Verizon FiOS and Comcast Business. “We are delighted to have such a tenured professional join our team to help build out our gigabit fiber internet throughout Colorado and New Mexico,” said Jawaid Bazyar, president of FORETHOUGHT.net. “Patrick’s expertise is the missing piece to our overall strategy to deliver the fastest speeds possible to our communities and minimize the digital divide that low speeds cause throughout our service area.” As director of business development, Mr. Mann’s responsibilities… read more →
Gigabit fiber is now available in twelve of the buildings in the Denver West Office Park from one of the largest independent internet providers. FORETHOUGHT.net, a local independent internet provider headquartered in Denver, Colorado continues to extend its gigabit fiber services in the Denver Metro area and will include twelve buildings in the Denver West Office Park. With the vision to provide gigabit fiber services along the Front Range and the Western Slope, FORETHOUGHT.net is focused on minimizing the digital divide throughout Colorado and New Mexico caused by slow internet speeds. The average Colorado download speed is approximately 7.4 megabits per second. A gigabit per second is the equivalent of 1000 megabits per second. FORETHOUGHT.net president, Jawaid Bazyar, commented “This is an exciting time for the communities in Colorado to finally receive reliably fast internet speeds at affordable prices. As a local provider we are able to provide local service… read more →
FORETHOUGHT.net hires new vice president of business development to help navigate its growth strategy across Colorado and beyond. FORETHOUGHT.net is now one of Colorado’s largest independent internet providers. The Denver-based communications provider announced today that it hired a vice president of business development, Eric Hager. Mr. Hager joins FORETHOUGHT.net following an advisory engagement for the past two years on corporate strategy, network development, and M & A expansion. Mr. Hager quote: “FORETHOUGHT.net is uniquely positioned as a premier locally owned and operated service provider with: fiber, wireless, and data center assets. With the acquisition of Brainstorm Internet, and its networks throughout southern Colorado and the Western slope, FORETHOUGHT.net is now positioned to offer cloud based communications and computing services uniquely throughout the region and national interconnection.” Formerly, Mr. Hager was Vice President of Expedient Holdings USA, where he was the architect for Expedient’s fixed wireless, fiber, copper based Ethernet transport… read more →
What some regular folks have to say about Comcast.. note the hostility towards Comcast’s rate-limiting, bandwidth limits, and customer service. http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/caption-contest-its-deadbeat-tastic/
Internet spam email is a big problem, there is no denying. There are many approaches to identifying and blocking spam, and none of them are foolproof. But there is also a clear difference between techniques – some are less reliable than others. Much less. An outfit known as SORBS (www.sorbs.net) provides some useful spam-filtering services, some of which we use. They maintain several lists, but the most useful one is a list of “dynamic IP addresses”. Generally users on these IPs should be using their ISP’s email server. This is reasonable, and there are easy ways around it in cases where it’s a problem. But SORBS also maintains a list of “known spam sources”. We do not use this one, because in our experience this list results in many false positives. Indeed – we now find ourselves on this SORBS blacklist, all over a total of three (3!!) emails received… read more →
There’s been a lot of talk in the news lately about the “Network Neutrality” principle. As usual with anything in politics, the term means different things to different people. So I’ll define it here: the most common aspect of the principle is that networks (such as your friendly neighborhood internet provider) should provide unfettered, unfiltered access to the Internet. I agree with this principle. Once providers get into the business of limiting content, we don’t have an Internet – we’d have multiple versions of the Internet and free speech would be at risk. However, there are circumstances where a provider must manage traffic on their networks. All Internet access is shared. The Internet is inexpensive because all of us are sharing its infrastructure, and this works because not all of us are using the Internet at the same time. Larger providers may see 60 to 1 effective oversubscription; i.e. out… read more →
There’s been a lot of talk, and frankly fear-mongering, in the press about the current recession. It’s “the biggest financial disaster since the 30s” by some accounts, although it’s hard to reconcile that with inconsistent economic data (such as the fact of contuining GDP growth through the first half of 2008). With all the comparisons to the Great Depression, it’s worthwhile to discuss briefly my take on it. I am an incessant optimist, but I just have to respond to all the negativity. First off, recessions are a normal part of the business cycle. The business cycle is: make investment, operate business, depreciate capital, close business. You invest capital in order to be able to run a business, produce products, be more efficient. At some point, that capital must be depreciated, because the factory machines are worn out and need replaced, or the product is no longer relevant in the… read more →
Finally, the day came! Our conduit was ready. The fiber was here. All that remained was putting it in the ground. How do you do that? What all is involved when you see those guys in the orange vests and hard-hats in the middle of the street, crawling in and out of manholes? A lot, it turns out. The first step is “pulling” a permit with the city. To get a permit, you need construction experience, a performance bond, and a traffic plan. The traffic plan details where work is to be done, how you are going to block the street, and how you will re-route traffic around the blockage. At least in Denver, it seems pretty straightforward. On the day, the sign company brought tons of orange road pylons, and road-signs announcing the blockage. It was pretty thrilling, the idea of being responsible for blocking a street and re-routing… read more →
Using Ethernet to deliver WAN (Wide-Area Network) services such as Internet access, point-to-point multi-site networking, can greatly simplify network design, improve reliability, and reduce costs.
Hi all, I have been wanting for some time to improve communication with our customers – and in addition to trying to get newsletters published more regularly, thought that I would experiment with blogging as a way to get timely information out to you without necessarily filling your mailboxes with stuff you might not want to read. So, welcome! My first series of posts will be in regards to our first-ever underground fiber build. Jawaid Bazyar, President
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