Skyriver

Internet service provider in San Diego, California

Skyriver

Company type| Private
Industry| Internet Service Provider (ISP), Telecommunications
Founded| 2000
Headquarters| 7310 Miramar Rd. Ste. 600 San Diego, CA 92126

Area served

| California, USA
Products| broadband Internet, VPN, termporary/event bandwidth

Number of employees

| 50
Website| www.skyriver.net

Skyriver was a business broadband Internet provider headquartered in San Diego, California. It was acquired by One Ring Networks in July, 2018.[1] Skyriver delivered broadband Internet connectivity for enterprise and small-medium businesses, utilizing its proprietary millimeter wave technology. Skyriver offered commercial grade services including dedicated Internet access, Virtual Private Network (VPN), redundancy, and temporary Internet/event bandwidth in California.

## History

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Skyriver was founded in September 2000.[2] In March 2003 Skyriver formed the SkyWeb Alliance with two other regional providers in California.[3][4] Skyriver acquired California based internet service provider Terracom Network Services (TNS), closing the deal in March 2004.[5] In 2005 Skyriver acquired San Diego–based IT outsourcing provider Integrate IT, Inc. In 2007 Skyriver completed its backhaul upgrade in anticipation of its planned WiMAX rollout.[6] In 2007 Skyriver added Orange County, California to its fixed wireless service area. Wireless broadband rates of 3 Mbit/s to 200 Mbit/s were marketed in Anaheim, La Habra, Garden Grove, Fullerton, Brea and Orange. In 2008 Skyriver acquired the assets of Nethere, Inc.[7] In 2016, Skyriver announced the successful completion of prelaunch field trials for its new mmWave Gigabit broadband. In 2017, Skyriver commercially deployed 5G class Point to Multipoint (PTMP) millimeter wave (mmWave) broadband service for the business segment, leveraging millimeter wave spectrum the company had acquired previously and its patented technology for commercial grade enterprise broadband connectivity.

## Services

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Skyriver offered dedicated, symmetrical commercial broadband Internet service and VPN, scalable up to 500 Mbit/s throughout Southern California. Skyriver was a business ISP that did not provide residential services. Product suite includes: Skyriver Magnitude Broadband and VPN (mmWave); Skyriver Enterprise and Skyriver Pro (fixed wireless); Event/Hospitality Bandwidth; and temporary Internet for construction sites.

Skyriver used fixed wireless technology between mountain top and building top base stations to create a core network with a ring architecture with numerous gigabit connections to major data centers for Tier 1 peering to the Internet. For the core network, Skyriver utilized FCC licensed spectrum including 11 and 18 GHz for fixed wireless. Skyriver extended service from their core network to their customers via licensed millimeter wave spectrum (39 GHz and 31 GHz).

Skyriver's network was wholly owned: it did not lease or utilize any of the network architecture from major telecommunication providers.

## See also

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* Wireless network
* Wireless Internet service provider

## References

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1. ^ "One Ring Networks Acquires Skyriver Communications".
2. ^ "Skyriver Communications". Company web site. Retrieved August 18, 2011.
3. ^ Gerry Blackwell (March 25, 2003). "The SkyWeb Alliance". Wi-Fi Planet. Retrieved August 18, 2011.
4. ^ "SkyWeb Alliance". web site. Archived from the original on March 20, 2003. Retrieved August 18, 2011.
5. ^ "Web Hosting Company Skyriver Communications Completes Acquisition of TNS". The Hosting News. March 31, 2004. Retrieved August 18, 2011.
6. ^ "Skyriver Communications Completes Major Upgrade of Backbone Network Infrastructure". News release. June 6, 2007. Retrieved August 18, 2011.
7. ^ "Skyriver Communications Completes Acquisition of Fixed Wireless Assets of Nethere, Inc". News release. April 21, 2008. Retrieved August 18, 2011.

## External links

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* Wimax Forum
* Google Finance
* Hoovers
* Skyriver and the Southern California Wildfires 2007
* Skyriver homepage
* TNS.net
* Skyriver successfully completes prelaunch field trials of its new millimeter wave broadband. Archived 2018-03-15 at the Wayback Machine
* Skyriver reinvents broadband connectivity with deployment of millimeter wave broadband. Archived 2018-03-15 at the Wayback Machine
* Telarus to resell Skyriver's millimeter wave broadband service. Archived 2018-03-15 at the Wayback Machine