Navigating through the latest networking technology and services to find the right solution for your business can be a complex and difficult journey. Carolinanet can help you examine where your e-business and network infrastructure, voice or data services are today, where they need to be and how to get there.

Network Consulting Services are just one piece of our Networking Services portfolio. We have extensive expertise with networking technology and products from virtually all major vendors. Consequently, we can offer comprehensive, end-to-end multivendor network, cabling and wireless infrastructure solutions delivered by experienced professionals.

Key to an effective design is a thorough analysis of your existing IT infrastructure, and a clear definition of your present and future needs. Through a broad range of proven techniques, including executive workshops, technical inventories, performance audits and gap analysis, we determine what separates where you are from where you want to be.

We draw on our experience in your domain, and lessons learned in others, to find sometimes unexpected ways to give you the edge. When new technologies offer an advantage, our vendor-independence allows us to recommend best-fit solutions from everything the industry has to offer.Beginning with this comprehensive survey of your challenges and opportunities, we create a technology road map for the development and support of an enhanced IT capability. Our field-proven methodologies ensure a smooth transition for projects ranging from a simple technology refresh to a complete, user-to-user network implementation.

As your network grows more capable and serves more users, your security challenges grow more complex. Secure design must be an integral consideration in any networking solution, to protect your intellectual property, to prevent assaults on system functionality, and to justify the trust of your clients and partners. Our goal is to give you complete protection from uninvited or unwelcome intrusions, without sacrificing seamless connectivity where and when you want it.

Our Security Consulting experts can assess your current level of protection, identify the often unsuspected threats to system integrity, and recommend effective security solutions. These can range from the hardening of existing systems to the complete re-engineering of your security infrastructure, from policy and procedures through hardware and software.

We know how to bring your level of security into balance with present and future challenges, from identification and authorization, to firewall integration, secure network sharing, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) encryption and a host of other technologies.

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Carolinanet has available for your project very talented individuals:

Bill Adams has worked in the telecommunications industry since 1960, and he brings a wealth of experience and expertise to his role at Carolinanet.

He began his career at Bell Telephone Laboratories in network design for radar systems and later headed the development of the Mechanized Loop Testing system, the most widely deployed system in the old Bell System. He worked for Southern Bell / BellSouth and was President of BellSouth Systems Technology, a shared tenant company, in the mid-1980s.

Bill retired from BellSouth to become Vice President of Operations for SouthernNet, an IXC constructing and operating a fiber optics and switching network in seven states. He directed the building of two Network Operations Centers (NOCs) during the rapid expansion of SouthernNet and its later merger to become TelecomUSA. He was selected to be Vice President of Engineering and Operations for Norlight, a fiber optics transmission company owned by three power companies and operating in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. He directed the rebuilding and expansion of this startup company's network and construction of an NOC prior to the sale of Norlight to MRC.

Mr. Adams was Vice President of Engineering and Operations for Intermedia Communications of Florida (ICI), a competitive access provider (CPA). He expanded the network from two to five cities and built the NOC in Tampa. He returned to North Carolina to become Vice President of Engineering and Operations for Access-On when the company was started. Access-On was a consortium of 14 independent telephone companies that came together to build the NC Information Highway in their territories. Bill founded Diamond Consulting LLC, a telecommunication consulting company that grew to 15 people with major clients such as BellSouth Long Distance, MCI, Cable and Wireless, Comcast, ICG, and several independent telephone companies.

Mr. Adams joined TriVergent/NuVox as Senior Vice President of Engineering and directed the network design and construction of over 150 collocation POPs in 17 cities for the CLEC. He retired at the end of 2001 from NuVox. Bill earned a Bachelor in Electrical Engineering degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from N C State University. Bill Adams is available for short-term consulting assignments and hourly rate is $200/hour plus travel and out-of-pocket expenses.



Tim McKee has extensive experience in the operations and management of telecommunications and networking companies. He successfully created and operated two major multi-regional networks based in the Carolinas, one operating on a wholesale basis to ILECs, the other operating on a retail CLEC basis.

Tim is a former US Air Force officer, having held the rank of Captain. He has spent many years operating as both a planning consultant and troubleshooter. He has a diverse range of knowledge and industry experience including aviation, pharmaceuticals, clinical laboratory, biochemistry, industrial process control, database design, systems programming, and data network architecture.

Tim accurately predicted most of the early years of the Internet boom and acted upon those predictions, persuading a conservative independent telephone company to join forces with him. In July 1993, this alliance resulted in the formation of the first commercial ISP in South Carolina, a company now known as Info Avenue Internet Services. Over the next 5 to 6 years, he worked to establish the company as a wholesaler of back-end Internet services, primarily to independent telephone companies across the United States. As a result of this activity, he became rather well-known and respected by the ILEC community.

Tim was recruited in March of 2000 by Charlie Houser to build, integrate, and operate a carrier-class multi-service data network for his new facility-based CLEC, TriVergent Communications. The large ATM/PNNI/IP hybrid network he constructed had over 12,000 T1 and fractional T1 customers connected and operating as of September 2002 and was growing at the rate of approximately 900 customers per month. No significant or customer-impacting network outages ever occurred.