Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create Internet solutions that allow individuals, companies, and countries to increase productivity, improve customer satisfaction and strengthen competitive advantage. The Cisco name has become synonymous with the Internet, as well as with the productivity improvements that Internet business solutions provide.
Juniper Networks is revolutionizing the economics of global information exchange. Their purpose-built, high-performance IP platforms enable customers to support many different services and applications at scale. Service providers, enterprises, governments, and research and education institutions worldwide rely on the company to deliver products for building networks that are tailored to the individual needs of their users, services, and applications.
Foundry Networks®, Inc. is a leading provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing, security, and application traffic management solutions including edge and backbone Ethernet switches, Web and content-aware application switches, network-wide security solutions, wireless LAN and access points, wide area access routers and internet provider edge and service provider core MPLS routers. Foundry's 10,400 customers includes the world's premier ISPs, Metro service providers, and enterprises including e-commerce sites, universities, entertainment, healthcare, government, financial, manufacturing companies, technology, and high-performance computing (HPC) sites.
With more than a century of experience in shaping the evolution of communications, Nortel continues its tradition of innovation today by providing secure solutions that ignite and power global commerce while helping solve the world's greatest challenges. Nortel's leading portfolio of solutions spanning packet, optical, wireless and voice technologies are at the very foundation of the world's economy, powering global commerce and delivering innovative network capabilities to connect rural and underdeveloped regions.
Aruba Networks delivers an enterprise mobility solution that enables secure access to data, voice and video applications across wireless and wire line enterprise networks. Our solution, the Aruba Mobile Edge Architecture allows end-users to seamlessly roam to different locations within an enterprise campus or office building while maintaining secure and consistent access to all of their network resources. Using our architecture, IT departments can establish and enforce policies that control network access and prioritize application delivery based on an end-user's organizational role and authorization level. IT departments can also cost-effectively scale the same user-centric access model to remote locations, such as branch offices and home offices, to create a seamless mobility overlay that spans the extended enterprise network.
Extreme Networks® of Santa Clara, Calif., founded in 1996, is a publicly listed company that designs, builds, and installs sophisticated Ethernet solutions that meet the toughest challenges in network connectivity and IP-based communications. Extreme Networks addresses a wide range of customers with wired and wireless network infrastructures. From corporate enterprises such as manufacturers, retailers, financial institutions, utilities and healthcare organizations, to large universities and K-12 school districts to federal and local governments worldwide.
SolarWinds is a leading provider of Windows-based network monitoring tools and network discovery and network management software. More than 40,000 customers spanning the military, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and educational institutions have chosen SolarWinds to reduce network downtime, monitor network performance, manage compliancy requirements, perform bulk configuration changes and improve staff efficiency.
NetIQ is a leading provider of integrated systems and security management solutions that empower IT organizations with the knowledge and ability necessary to assure IT service. NetIQ's Knowledge-Based Service Assurance products and solutions include embedded knowledge and tools to implement industry best practices and to better ensure operational integrity, manage service levels and risk, and ensure policy compliance. NetIQ's modular, best-of-breed solutions for Performance Management, Security Management, Configuration Management, and Change Control integrate through an open, service-oriented architecture allowing for common reporting, analytics and dashboards.
DataPoint provides high-speed dedicated Internet access, data center collocation, managed services, and other customized networking services that enable our customers to focus on their core businesses while DataPoint focuses on their broadband infrastructure and connectivity. Locally operated and headquartered in the downtown Baltimore Tide Point Campus, DataPoint delivers superior personalized customer care, rapid response times, 24/7 onsite support, and customized Internet access and data center solutions. Owned by Continental Broadband, a large private company, DataPoint has both the resources and the long-term growth perspective to continue to expand its product offering and regional footprint - all with an eye towards delighting our current and future customers.
Litecast is a "dark" fiber metropolitan infrastructure provider dedicated to providing fiber connectivity to all segments of Baltimore's business community at an affordable and fixed cost. To achieve this goal, Litecast has designed, constructed, and currently leases a high-capacity, high-bandwidth dark fiber-optic network constructed on full-spectrum fiber - the "Litecast Network". With the strategic placement of over 1300 redundant fiber miles within the City, customers are instantly able to connect to Baltimore's most important points of communications presence. We provide fiber connections for our customers because we understand that when you connect to fiber, you connect to the inherent advantages fiber is able to provide - in short, you connect to the future!