After working ten years for the Federal Government, I formed CCCI in 1990. My own backround in consulting brought me in contact with Greg Satz, an engineer at Cisco Systems, and I began my consulting relationship with Cisco. The initial work was a combination of Cisco training, customer consulting, and internal white papers. Greg then commissioned me to work on a project which produced the New User Interface, available in Cisco's 9.21 release.
Early in 1993, I decided to expand CCCI. The primary business goal was for 100 percent growth in 1993, 1994, and 1995. We have maintained this growth rate as well as being able to attract a highly qualified technical and support staff.
The corporate focus is in several closely related areas of networking:
Our training curriculum covers a wide range of courses: from beginner to advanced, software to hardware, management to design. Our goal is to provide a superior level of technical expertise in the courses we teach.
The growth of internetworking and client-server computing has significantly increased the complexity of today's networks. Our consultant-instructors perform network design, analysis, and troubleshooting, thus building stronger customer relationships and an excited team that can address extremely difficult tasks. Interesting troubleshooting experiences that we encounter will be described in newsletter articles so that you may learn from them, too.
This is the year that network management is going to have to prove itself. There has been a lot of talk and hype about network management, but little in the way of applications that are stable and scale to the sizes of planned networks. We have been identifying and working with systems that can provide real results and will share our discoveries in this newsletter.
These three areas always seem to be at the core of our customers' requirements:
This newsletter introduces our new CCCI logo, in which I see several symbolic things. The first, and most literal, is the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, a seven-mile long dual-span structure that connects the main body of Maryland's Kent Island and Maryland's Eastern Shore. The second is that of the Information Superhighway and the rapidly expanding Internet. Finally, the four towers are symbolic of the products that are the foundation of the internetworks that we are constructing.
Today,Chesapeake Computer Consultants, Inc., has an education center and headquarters in historic Annapolis, Maryland, and recently opened consulting office in Houston, Texas. We are looking forward to the challenges and exciting times ahead as the internetworking market continues to explode.