Interisle Consulting Group

Resilient systems and networks position your organization to thrive under any circumstances—to respond dynamically to new technologies, new business opportunities, and new threats in an ever-changing world.

Interisle's world-renowned Internet and financial industry experts know that technology matters most when it helps your business grow.

We look beyond the impersonal canned solutions promoted by traditional large consulting firms, working closely with our clients to find the enduring architectural foundation that unites technology and business strategy to create sustainable value. Everything we do is focused cleanly and efficiently on your specific situation—all of our consultants are seasoned professionals with international reputations, and we don't waste your time (or money) on anything that doesn't directly benefit your business.

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Headlines

Ten years later—Why so little progress? (7 September 2011)
As the world marks the ten-year anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy, it seems that our nation has made scant progress in correcting the serious problems with public safety communications that hampered the efforts of first responders that terrible day, and that were subsequently highlighted in the 2004 9/11 Commission Report. It is not that money hasn't been spent, but there doesn't seem to be much to show in the way of tangible progress. Furthermore, some of the new radio technologies seem to be falling short, as is highlighted in the article Firefighters balk at new digital radios, as failures risk lives authored by Lydia Mulvaney and Greg Gordon. The BiPartisan Policy Center's Tenth Anniversary Report Card on the Status of the 9/11 Commission Recommendations also documents the disappointing progress (ref. page 14) made during the past decade towards improving public safety communications, and highlights the lack of effective political leadership.
As communications systems technologists, we have to wonder how our industry has failed to deliver on promises of reliable, interoperable communications. Are we rushing to implement standards that were outdated by the mid 1990s? Have the unique requirements of first responders been adequately factored into the standards and designs? Is there effective third-party testing and evaluation of communications systems that address real-world operating environments? There is much our industry has to answer to.
As the smartphones and tablets in the market today clearly demonstrate, we have made enormous progress in communications technologies over the past decade, but neither the smartphone, nor the traditional brick public safety radio, seems capable of meeting the essential requirements of first responders. Clearly there is a vital need to achieve more, without necessarily having to spend more. The right solutions are often the most cost-effective, while inappropriate solutions cost more than they should in both dollars and lives.

Interisle News

May 2013
Interisle report on Barnstable County IT & Telecomms survey published
The Cape Cod Economic Development Council published Interisle's report on a 2012 survey of Barnstable County IT and Telecommunications. You can read more about the CCEDC project at their website.

November 2012
Support for the FCC's Open Internet Order
Interisle partner Lyman Chapin is one of the Internet engineers and technologists who have filed a brief amicus curiae supporting affirmation of the FCC's 21 December 2010 Open Internet Order, which has been challenged by Verizon and MetroPCS in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The summary of the argument presented in the brief begins "The Internet's remarkable ability to generate innovation, investment, and economic growth is a product of its openness."

June 2012
Interisle's WHOIS Survey Report Posted
Interisle's report on the WHOIS Proxy/Privacy Reveal & Relay feasibility survey has been posted by ICANN.

April 2012
Interisle Will Evaluate Applications for New Internet Top-Level Domains
ICANN is preparing to add hundreds of new top-level domains (TLDs) to the DNS, and Interisle will be evaluating each one to be sure that the proposed TLD name and registry services don't jeopardize Internet security or stability. Interisle was selected as the Registry Services and DNS Stability evaluator last November, and will begin work on the first batch of applications on June 12. New TLDs that pass all of the evaluations will begin to appear in the DNS in mid-2013.

November 2011
Interisle welcomes Fred Goldstein as a new Principal. Fred has already been working with Interisle for many years. He adds his extensive experience to Interisle, particularly in the telecommunications space.

March 2008
Chuck Wade has developed a spreadsheet tool for IP address planning and inventory tracking. It supports supernetting and subnetting, and can be used by merely entering CIDR values. It detects errors, and eliminates the tedium of converting between binary and dotted decimal notations. You can get more information and download this tool as an Excel workbook from this page.


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