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The year started with the shipment of our largest system to date: a 13-server 4-rack Metropolitan HC designed to serve 100,000 people in Lagos, Nigeria using a combination of dial-up, DSL, and wireless access.
The second project of the year was a third generation Neighbourhood ISP that is due to begin serving customers in Algeria in January 2005.
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The second-generation Neighbourhood system is shipped to Umuahia, Nigeria.
The first Metropolitan HC is contracted for installation in Africa. A large project, entailing years of work, for an ISP that is poised to significantly enhance communications in Africa.
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Focus on Africa is enhanced with affiliate MV Commsat in Angola.
ISP Ltd. moves to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - "the most wired nation in the world" and the founder's home country. This allows ISP Ltd. to do better R&D, provide better service, and to trim the company back down to a very small and efficient size.
Wireless ISP installed in Telluride, Colorado. A town that had no wireless ISPs suddenly has four: we are the second, and a third is on our heels. We are faced with many interference issues and design changes during installation. The decision is made to move away from 2.4GHz LOS toward NLOS.
Following the installation of a sub-Community ISP in Telluride, Colorado and prompted by the Canadian Rural Broadband Initiative, the Neighbourhood ISP package is announced.
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Very low-cost unlicensed (2.4GHz) wireless ISP is developed in Paonia, Colorado.
In partnership with Dynatek Telecomm, turnkey broadband wireless solutions are offered.
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Product line is expanded. Wireless 10Mbps to 25Mbps access designs are developed.
Product lines are upgraded to keep pace with increasing bandwidth demands.
At the close of 2000, ISP Ltd. is still the only company offering turnkey ISP packages on the Internet and the only firm offering a three year ISP-specific Support relationship to clients.
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ISP Ltd. web site is published, pioneering the concept of turnkey ISP packages based on Linux with ISP support.
The low cost and simplicity of the network design brings inquiries from throughout the world within a week of introduction.
By the end of the year, four ISP packages are designed and presented on the ispltd.com web site.
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Embracing Linux as an affordable and well supported alternative to Unix, we built and programmed an ISP from scratch in Paonia, Colorado.
Taking a fresh approach to ISP networking, ISP packages are developed as the Paonia.com ISP grows.
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In search of a better quality of life and a good place to raise children, the Babudro family and companies move to rural western Colorado.
Software development, publishing, and consulting continue as before, and a retail computer store/repair shop are added to our computer businesses.
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Several business software packages have been extensively developed for internal and client use.
So the idea to publish software is born, starting with a mailing list management package (one of the first to print USPS bar codes) and a vehicle maintenance history tracking & reporting package.
The new business is called Organic Computer Wizardry, a rather whimsical name, I suppose to balance out the serious-sounding names of the first two businesses.
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Babudro Advanced Business Computer Designs is founded in Los Angeles, California to provide consulting and custom DOS, Oasis, and Unix systems and software.
A multi-user Oasis-based accounting, inventory, and point-of-sale system is developed and installed in three Los Angeles businesses.
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