Services

Cascadeo provides strategic guidance, architecture development, and deployment of next generation networks for rural telecommunication carriers throughout the United States. We specialize in assisting rural LECs, ISPs, and communications providers with broadband deployments, triple-play deployments, and fiber-optic expansions (FTTX).

We work with a wide-range of telecommunications carriers across the US, ranging from rural LECs to ISPs and offer the following services and benefits to our clients:

• Assistance with the key development, architecture, and implementation of FTTX, IPTV, Broadband, and VoIP
• Assistance with grant applications for funds from the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
• Decades of knowledge and experience within the telecommunications industry
• Extensive experience with ISP and CLEC IP network engineering
• Fundamental understanding of core IP backbone infrastructure, routing protocols, and major network deployments
• Broad experience with datacenter design & construction
• Comprehensive knowledge of networking and high-availability enterprise systems architecture
• VMware virtualization design/engineering/implementation

Cascadeo offers senior-level IP network engineering and scalable systems architecture to our clients. We specialize in the design, testing, implementation, and maintenance of advanced IP networks.

Our client list ranges from established telecommunication carriers to venture-backed start-ups, and everything in between. We have handled a wide variety of projects for our clients, from engineering a multi-city IP backbone from the ground up, to designing the hosting infrastructure for some of Seattle’s most prominent start-ups. We offer the following experience and benefits for our clients:

• Decades of experience with core IP backbone infrastructure
• Detailed knowledge of core IP routing protocols (OSPF, BGP, etc.)
• Extensive work experience with ISP and CLEC IP network engineering
• Detailed knowledge of Cisco routers, SonicWALL firewalls, Cisco switches, and many other network elements.
• Substantial experience with datacenter design & construction
• Advanced VPN design & implementation

Cascadeo's team has decades of experience designing, implementing, and operating mission-critical server infrastructure. Throughout our careers, we have worked on systems serving hundreds of thousands of users and across dozens of industries. We use a combination of academic expertise and real-world experience in designing truly exceptional, cost-effective solutions.

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Cascadeo Corporation provides fully managed application hosting and operations to our customers. We focus on building and managing customized infrastructure that is scalable, secure, and fault tolerant. By drawing on decades of collective experience in all areas of technical operations, we work to provide a turnkey solution that is tailored to the specific needs of each individual client.

Our hosting options go far beyond the standard one-size fits all, commodity-based web hosting, and represent an entirely different approach. Our current infrastructure hosts some of the busiest MediaWiki, Wordpress, and JIRA installations on the Internet, and we're experts in customizing high-end hosting operations to the needs of each client. We offer the following experience and benefits for our managed hosting clients:

• Extensive experience with the design, implementation, and maintenance of high capacity, mission-critical server infrastructure
• Complete end-to-end application support, customized to the needs of each client
• Operation of a world-class datacenter in Seattle's Westin Building (premier carrier hotel)
• Widespread experience with web application platforms (PHP, Java, PERL, Apache, LAMP, IIS/MSSQL, .NET)

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Cascadeo provides a wide variety of technical operation solutions to our clients. We are skilled at, and have extensive expertise, in the following operational areas:

• Datacenter and Office Facilities Management
• Network Operations Center (NOC) Design / Implementation / Management
• OS installation and management
• Equipment rack mounting and server installation
• Structured cabling
• Full deployment of IP-based (VoIP) telephone systems
• WiFi/LAN/WAN management

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Cascadeo provides round-the-clock 24x7 emergency support and hardware replacement for businesses through our NetShield program. We offer DIRECT access to senior-level network and systems engineers, as well as same day hardware replacement for all major routing and switching equipment. Netshield gives customers quicker access to engineers at a fraction of the cost of Cisco Smartnet, and offers the following features:

• 24x7x365 access to Cascadeo’s engineering team
• Customized solutions to fit your businesses needs
• Same day or next day replacement of hardware
• Round-the-clock monitoring and real-time alerts
• On-going operating system upgrades and patches
• Specialized escalation procedures

Cascadeo has extensive experience with Internet access abroad -- even in the most remote places.
Access technologies and methodologies we work with include:

• SonicWALL and Cisco VPN access
• SSH (Secure Shell) port forwarding / tunneling
• Inmarsat BGAN broadband satellite telecommunications (voice, video, and Internet access)
• 3G GSM and CDMA technologies
• Mobile device email / data access abroad (BlackBerry, iPhone, etc.)
• Large-scale public WiFi infrastructure (commercial and open)
• Analog dial-up, GPRS, and other bandwidth-constrained access
• Wireless redundancy for wireline systems
• International VoIP (SIP / IAX2 / Skype) toll bypass, PBX operation, and collaboration
• Our experience in this area comes from our collective interest in travel -- the solutions we recommend are field-tested around the world!

Cascadeo principals combine over 30 years of experience to offer systems, networking, and datacenter operations experience. Cascadeo's SnapShotDR(tm) services offers geographically distinct data protection, recovery, and availability services.

Our solutions are tailored to support the recovery objectives and service levels organizations require. Our service portfolio includes online data backup, physical and virtualized recovery solutions, managed hosting, SaaS monitoring/reporting, and colocation services.

Snapshot DR™ is uniquely tailored to fit businesses of all sizes, and provides a cost-competitive and geographically distinct backup solution. By utilizing the IX-NWWA link to the SIX, we enable organizations to cheaply, effectively, and rapidly backup and replicate data to a secure data center away from the metropolitan core.

Cascadeo offers this service backed by geographically-diverse data centers, highly-qualified technicians, and iron-clad security controls. For more information, please call Chris Reimer at 206-111-1111.