technology
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“this is the end…my friend…”*
November, 1991. The company’s Initial Public Offering of its common stock was a rousing success. Everyone in the company was holding his/her head up high. The stock price seemed to reach new heights every week. Sales were hitting record levels, backlog was building, manufacturing was hustling. The air was thick with optimism. Anything seemed possible.… Continue reading
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new york, new york – bear, bell, and the bouncer
The center of commercial activity for the nation has been New York City since the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825. By then, New York had surpassed Philadelphia in imports and exports, but the center of banking was the Second Bank of the United States chartered in Philadelphia in 1816. Being the only federally… Continue reading
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growing pains
An unexpected consequence of enterprise networking in the early 90’s was the emergence of private international data networks. An investment bank in Zurich required access to data held in their offices in Manhattan. Stock traders in London needed access to accounts in Milan. Remember, there was no Internet as we know it today. Routers purchased… Continue reading
About Me
I am an electrical engineer, a founder of three successive, successful data communications companies – Interlan, Wellfleet Communications, Agile Networks – from 1981 through 1997. Find me on LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-seifert/
behind the towers 