Broadband bonding patches together a bigger pipe with a price tag sized for small business.

By Dan O’Shea

Small businesses find it tough to get what they need from big telecom service providers, which more often create offerings with big businesses in mind–”one-size-fits-all” solutions that may or may not fit.

In many cases, that one size is a T-1 line. At 1.5 megabits per second, that’s faster than some business connection alternatives–but it also can cost as much as $1,000 per month. For the most part, service providers are not in a rush to develop a more flexible solution for small businesses that ultimately would subtract from their bottom lines. Fortunately, there’s a work-around: an approach called broadband bonding. Simply put, it allows two or more broadband lines to be bonded into a single, more capacious pipe. Broadband bonding variations are offered by several companies, one of which is Mushroom Networks, founded in 2004 as a spinoff from the University of California, San Diego. Read more!

Risk Mitigation Could Lead To A Better PIPEline In 2010
By Josh Beckerman

While movie fans are savoring the year-end battle between Mo’Nique and Anna Kendrick, another batch of year-end awards are in – the largest PIPE deal of the year was the $4 billion Dow Chemical transaction by Berkshire Hathaway and Kuwait Investment Authority. Read On!

Sandvine named worldwide market leader for standalone DPI product revenue

Infonetics Research has released its Service Provider Deep Packet Inspection Products Market Outlook, tracking vendors such as Allot, Arbor, Bivio, Cisco, CloudShield, Procera, Narus, NIKSUN, Sandvine, and Qosmos.

The market share and forecast report tracks standalone DPI solutions and vendors, and found that Sandvine, Cisco, and Allot lead in the fast-growing standalone deep packet inspection (DPI) market.

The report, which provides market size, vendor market share, forecasts, and analysis for standalone DPI products, tracked data from North America, EMEA, Asia Pacific, and CALA (Central and Latin America), plus worldwide totals and market share. Read More!

The value of planning is immeasurable

By Don Schempp, Senior Vice President of Torrey Pines Bank
Jan 01, 2010

By necessity, local businesses and residents have tightened their belts and are delving into savings to get through these tough times.

These are good short-term solutions, but the important question is what will be the lessons that endure once the economy changes from downturn to recovery and eventually to growth and prosperity?

I’ve been in banking for almost 40 years and I’ve seen many recessionary periods and times of great prosperity. The common denominator in any economic cycle is that planning for the future is fundamental to achieving your financial goals. Read more!

San Diego Chosen to Host CSUN’s 25th Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference

by David Morrison

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After taking $500 billion in government bailout money, paying million-dollar bonuses to chief executives and running borrowers through a corporate maze to qualify for loan modifications, the banking industry could use an image makeover.

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(Photo by Jamie Scott Lytle – Staff photographer)

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New Edy’s Slow Churned Hot Cocoa Light Ice Cream is the “Crush of the Month” in the December issue of Pregnancy & Newborn!

Torrey Pines Bank Reports Strong Third Quarter

“Conservative” lender avoided sub-prime loans
By Eilene Zimmerman
Posted on Mon, Nov 23rd, 2009
Last updated Fri, Nov 20th, 2009

John Maguire, President & CEO, Torrey Pines Bank

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Torrey Pines Bank reported strong growth in the third quarter of this year, with increases in deposits, an increase in net income and substantial capacity to fund new business loans and lines of credit. The Bank is a leading local commercial bank with offices throughout the county, and is a subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporaton.

Click here to read the full story on SanDiego.com.