Company: Carrier Access Corporation
City: Boulder
Country: USA
url: http://www.carrieraccess.com
Carrier Access' founders chose an apt name at its founding in 1992. For more than a decade, the company has remained committed to the consolidation of services and technologies for the service provider needing to save space and money.
Founding chief executive Roger Koenig and corporate development officer Nancy Pierce initially served as consultants, helping enterprises discover new ways to integrate broadband access and lower communications expenses. Koenig and Pierce turned their business into a value-added reseller operation in 1989, after realizing consultancy alone could not deliver the full package of design, equipment and service desired by their customers.
Carrier Access evolved from the reseller business four years later, based on its founders' experience and frustration with piecing together third-party T1 access equipment that lacked cost and space efficiencies, and serviceability. Koenig and Pierce realized that serving carriers communication networks with optimized, consolidated access technology often meant designing a smaller, more efficient network access box unlike anything offered by the existing telecommunications equipment companies. Many companies had attempted to bring together the old world of analog phone lines and the emerging Internet packet world in a common architecture, but they still thought in terms of large, cumbersome systems that filled a wiring closet - systems too unwieldy to be aligned with corporate budgets or small-office space constraints.
