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Radialpoint (formerly known as Zero Knowledge) is a private corporation with headquarters in Montreal, Canada, the United States and Europe. Radialpoint works with Internet Service Providers worldwide and allows them to take on the role of "IT Manager" for their customers’ who need help with technology. Radialpoint services are currently available to over 50 million broadband subscribers worldwide.
Radialpoint customers include some of the world's largest service providers such as Bell Aliant, Bell Canada, MTS allstream, SaskTel, Télébec, TELUS, Rogers and Vidéotron ltée in Canada; AT&T, Cincinnati Bell, Comcast, Cox Communications, FairPoint Communications, Verizon, and Windstream Communications in the U.S.; and BSkyB, BT, Eircom, ONO, Telio and Virgin Media in Europe.
In 2008, TA Associates, a private equity firm, announced it was investing C$98 million in Radialpoint, to support growth initiatives of the business, including investment in new products and services.[1]
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- 1997-2002 - Early Years: Zero-Knowledge Systems gave Internet privacy through user-friendly technology. The company recruited cryptographers and software programmers to build the world’s first and only[citation needed] global network of private encrypted servers, called the Freedom Network, to enable private and secure Internet surfing. During the dot-com crash, the company dismissed many of its staff and was criticized in the press. The Freedom Network was shut down in 2002, and the software became obsolete.
- 2002-2008 - Rebranding: The company changed its business model to provide an Internet security services platform for Internet Service Providers (ISPs), rather than selling directly to consumers. The company rebranded with a new name, Radialpoint.
- 2009: Radialpoint acquired HiWired[2] and Casero,in the market of Premium Support and Online Sharing & Backup.
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