Pingsta

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title=Pingsta Inc.


caption=Pingsta
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label4= URL
data4= [http://www.pingsta.com www.pingsta.com]
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label5= Type
data5= Private
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label6= Founder & CEO
data6= Peter Alfred-Adekeye
header7=
label7= Launched
data7= February 2007
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label8= Headquarters
data8= Redwood City, California

Pingsta is an online collaborative platform for internet engineers. It was founded in Palo Alto, California, United States by Peter Alfred-Adekeye in February 2007 and is privately owned. Pingsta is geared towards an audience of networking engineers who are invited to join so they can collectively extend their intellectual legacy. It currently has members from 50 countries worldwide.

History

Pingsta targets a niche group of senior-level key players within the computer networking industry. Typical members range from members of IETF to distinguished engineers and technical leaders at networking companies and service providers worldwide. The site promotes collaboration through the use of a number of online tools.

Pingsta recently launched an initiative aimed at aggregating and validating the world's internetwork intelligence through mySolvr.com. This initiative was driven primarily because of the lack of an openly available resource that provides Internet engineers and internet users alike with concise best practices on various Internet Protocol or IP infrastructure technologies, hardware and software that is comprehensive and validated.

Origin of the Pingsta name

The name 'Pingsta' is a combination of two words Ping and "Star." The first word, PING, is the acronym for Packet InterNet Groper, a troubleshooting tool used to test IP network connectivity. Ping is also commonly used as a verb, "to Ping" meaning to contact someone. The second word "Sta" is said to derive from the word "Star" as a subset of "Superstar".

Membership

Pingsta membership is by invitation-only. One can be invited by Pingsta or by any current Pingsta member to join. On the other hand, mySolvr membership is open to the public and networking enthusiasts can sign up to post entries to it. When an entry is posted to mySolvr by a Pingsta member, it is displayed publicly as "Pingsta Validated". When an entry is posted by a mySolvr contributor, it is displayed publicly as an "Unvalidated" entry until a Pingsta member reviews and validates it.

Pingsta ICE™

in April 2008, Pingsta introduced a new feature called Pingsta ICE™, or Intellectual Commerce Ecosystem. Pingsta ICE™ provides network equipment manufacturers, IT service providers and enterprises worldwide with the next-generation network engineering service-delivery engine on a per-task basis, for break-fix, consulting and research and development challenges. Pingsta ICE™ clients leverage Pingsta’s coalesced intelligence to augment their in-house talent and surge engineering capacity at the push of a button – efficiently, transparently and cost effectively.

With ICE™, Pingsta intends to enable its members with the opportunity to monetize their ideas and problem solving ability from anywhere in the world, on their own time. Clients in need of help on any project or problem can utilize Pingsta ICE™ as a way to search the Information Technology world for any solution.

Pingsta ICE Pro™

Pingsta ICE Pro™ was launched October 2008. This edition of Pingsta ICE grants businesses the ability to purchase consulting and break-fix tasks as needed. These tasks are resolved by industry-expert engineers who specialize in a multitude of networking technologies, such as LAN, VPN and VoIP.

ICE Pro™ represents a Network-Intelligence-as-a-Service model that enables fast-growing businesses to tap into an existing pool of expert-engineering talent, without the costs and distractions of owning and maintaining internal resources.

Some of the key features of ICE Pro™ include:

• Multivendor and Multi-technology Support

• Task Management

• Multivendor Knowledge-Base

• Unlimited Storage

• Secure Encrypted Communication

• Intelligent Task Assignment

• Service Level Management

Pingsta ICE Pro™ is currently available worldwide. Supported vendors include: Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel-Lucent, as well as fifty other vendors.

External links

* [http://pingsta.com/about About Pingsta]
* [http://pingstapeople.blogspot.com/ Pingsta Blog]
* [http://www.mysolvr.com mySolvr]
* [http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/042408-pingsta.html?fsrc=netflash-rss Pingsta helps network pros land consulting gigs]