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Etheric Networks Incorporated

Type	Privately held corporation
Founded	2000
Headquarters	Mountain View, California
Key people	W. A corporation is a separate legal entity usually used to conduct business 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. 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. For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks In Marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a Market that might satisfy a want or need An Internet service provider ( ISP, also called Internet access provider or IAP) is a company which primarily offers their customers access to the Internet A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages 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. The British Association of Nature Conservationists (BANC publish ECOS academic journal

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.

History

Etheric Networks Broadband Fixed Wireless Timeline
March 2003	Etheric Networks launches ISP service via its first generation broadband fixed wireless local loop WLL access network, via the Qwest colocation center in Sunnyvale and Black Mountain, a communication tower complex at 2,800 feet above sea level, overlooking Silicon Valley and the Peninsula. WLL redirects here Not to be confused with Weight Load Limit the maximum weight that a given apparatus can bear Wireless local loop (WLL is a term for the use of a wireless
August 2003	Network expanded to five long range (12 mile radius) base stations providing line of sight coverage to approximately 65% of Silicon Valley and Peninsula buildings. Company is cited in Silicon Valley Business Journal. Etheric enters ranks of top 10 fastest ISPs recorded by user tests on broadbandreports. Broadband Reports, located at the web URL wwwdslreportscom (mirrored at www
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. The Santa Cruz Sentinel is a Daily newspaper published in Santa Cruz California, covering Santa Cruz County California, and owned by MediaNews Network extends to cover Santa Cruz, Santa Clara and most of San Mateo counties, as well as pilot service in Alameda and Monterey Counties. Santa Cruz County is a county located on the Pacific coast of the U Santa Clara County is a County located in the San Francisco Bay Area of the U San Mateo County ( "san muh-TAY-o") ( Spanish for: St Alameda County is a county in the US state of California. It occupies most of the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. Monterey County is a county located on the Pacific coast of the U
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. For the valley nicknamed "Silicone Valley" see San Fernando Valley. 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 U-NII band high speed wireless local loop service. The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, or the Bay, is a geographically and ethnically diverse metropolitan region that surrounds the The Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure ( U-NII) Radio band is part of the Radio frequency spectrum used by IEEE-802

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