The Glue

People who have kept the internet up and running have always had different names for themselves; internetwork engineers, web pros, router jocks, the list goes on and on. But recently, a new term has been coined to describe the hardworking people behind the scenes who keep our essential Internet infrastructure up and running: The Glue. When you think about it, this term makes the most sense, and truly describes what we do in the shadows.

Today, the world expects everything to be on the Internet –not only their music and movies but also essentials like medical records, bank accounts and vital personal data. People want to access all their data at any time, through any media from anywhere. As the Glue, network engineers are responsible for keeping people unfamiliar with technology meshed with the complicated system on which they depend. So good job Pingsta Members, you are the essential, and more importantly, top of the line Glue of the world.

-Will

It's not social networking, It's Pingsta

Pingsta was inspired primarily by the lack of the following:

1. an internetwork intelligence repository that is comprehensive, validated and openly available to the world
2. a social and intellectually stimulating playground for the rock stars that invented (and continue to sustain) the internet.

We set out to create a platform where internetwork experts can hang out and socialize with colleagues from across the world, discussing topics of personal interests such as kite-surfing, IPv6, rock-climbing, inter-planetary communication, Matter-over-IP etc seamlessly, while also collaborating to extend their intellectual legacies through submissions to the internetwork repository.

Several barrels of coffee over months of little sleep later, Pingsta was born. We've since put together a core team of some of the smartest minds in software engineering and design and they are working tirelessly towards making Pingsta the ultimate virtual internetwork playground. Keep an eye out for weekly feature roll-outs ;-)

We're proud to say that four months after beta launch, our niche membership of early-adopters spans inventors, fellows, distinguished engineers, technical leaders, CCIEs, JNCIEs, etc from the US, UK, Australia, Japan, France, Belgium, Poland, Canada, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, South Africa, Israel, India, Germany, Hungary, Austria, Taiwan, China, Bangladesh, Slovenia, Singapore, Ireland, Russia, Spain, Italy, Norway, Serbia, Croatia, Finland, and Brazil.

Thank you all for your continued support, participation and feedback. We hope you enjoy the ride with us!

Peter Alfred-Adekeye
Founder, Pingsta, Inc.