News of Note — Another Telco Giveaway?

The National Broadband Plan appears ready to hand out billions to the usual pigs: Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and Clearwire.

Meanwhile White House Cybersecurity Czar Howard Schmidt unwisely told Wired magazine that there is no cyber war.

In other news, a VC firm acquired competing cable operator RCN for $1.2 billion.

This and more in the latest News of Note.

Network Management: Nagios and Servers Alive

Nagios Enterprises LLC and its president Ethan Galstead are going through some changes. Galstead syas he started the Nagios project outside of work in 1999 and in 2005, he realized he could support himself by working full time on the project. Now, he’s moved the project out of a home office and into actual office space. In September of 2009, he released Nagios XI, the commercial version of its Nagios Core open source network management software.

Servers Alive dates back to 1993, when Dirk Bulinckx and Nancy Brans, his wife, founded the company and made their Saint Bernard, Sanctus van de Burggravehoeve, the face of the company.

News of Note

Motorola will split into two companies in 2011. The wireless business may be sold.

CBeyond and the Small Business Administrator want AT&T and Verizon to be forced into line sharing. The copper line companies threaten to stop investing if that happens. The FCC is expected to issue a statement this week.

Worth reading: the list thread, “WISP’s are killing themselves!!!! – New FCC form 477 report is out, not looking good for Fixed Wireless”.

PureWave Announces Quantum Family

PureWave Networks’ Inc. PureWave is an innovative developer of Mobile WiMAX base stations that are ideal for WISPs. The PureWave Quantum family of Mobile WiMAX base stations (available in 3.65 GHz & 2.5 GHz) make carrier grade, advanced technology available and affordable to any WISP.
PureWave Quantum base stations feature a unique, single box, all outdoor [...]

Winncom Technologies Teams Up with Wavion Wireless Networks to Provide Customers with Advanced Outdoor Wi-Fi

Solon, OH, March 4, 2010 – Winncom Technologies, a value-added distributor of global wireless solutions, has announced a new distribution agreement with Wavion Wireless Networks for North America. This strategic alliance will enable Winncom to provide customers with revolutionary Wi-Fi solutions utilizing Wavion’s powerful spatially adaptive beamforming technology.
This new alliance demonstrates Winncom’s commitment to [...]

Ohio’s Intelliwave Receives Federal Broadband Stimulus Funding

For Immediate Release:
March 4, 2010

Athens, Ohio Based Intelliwave Receives 2.28 Million Dollar Federal Broadband Stimulus Award to Bring Desperately Needed Broadband Service to 11,232 Households & Businesses in Athens, Pickaway and Fairfield Counties.
Athens, Ohio: Thanks to a federal broadband stimulus award announced today, 11,232 households currently unserved or underserved by broadband, in [...]