| Founded | 1984 (began operations) 1989 (incorporated) |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Oakville, Ontario, Canada |
Key people | Mike Caspar (CEO) |
| Website | [www.caspar.com] |
This page was initially created by Mike Caspar with the intention of providing history for Caspar Computer Services Inc.
Caspar Computer Services is an Ontario corporation involved in the IT industry. Caspar Computer was an early supplier of innovative MHS/SMF to SMTP internet gateways and was an early adopter of a method to easily transmit EDI data for Companies over the internet as part of email traffic. Early customers were primarily in the international freight transportation business.
History
editCaspar Computer Services Inc. is an Ontario incorporated company originally started as a small business in 1984 as Caspar Computing.
Products
editPaytran, a software product used in Canada for electronic EFT transmissions to Canadian Banks and financial institutions.
Paytran was used to transmit data by small corporations and Ontario municipalities to many of Canada's Chartered Banks and trust companies.
In 2003, the Paytran product was abandoned as a product, yet the website is still active to provide support information and details of its' use.
Caspar.NET was an ISP business with Points of Presence in Mississauga, Montreal, Halifax, Vancouver, and briefly in Calgary. It's primary market was non-internet connected corporations. Dial-up connections were used to transfer batches of email to be converted to and from the internet. Each Caspar.NET node would then convert the messages to SMTP based messages which could be transmitted over the internet. Early customers had email addresses in the form of user@company.caspar.net.
Caspar.NET provided primarily dial-up and ISDN internet services.
From it's Mississauga location, it also provided wireless network connections using Wi-Lan NetHopper technology.
Caspar.NET was an early adopter of the internet for business email communications. Caspar.Net provided email forwarding for business as a means to replace fax transmission of data to overseas clients. This was considered a major innovation at the time. Clients would create messages in an MHS format and those messages would reach hubs in Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, Vancouver and Calgary and would then be converted to SMTP based messages for communication over the internet.
Caspar.NET was an early adopter of the concept of using the internet to transmit Electronic Data Interchange(EDI) data over the internet. Business clients used the service from North America, South America, Europe, Africa and some parts of Asia as an effective means to transmit data between cities.
The original Caspar.NET connection was connected to the internet via ONET.CA. UUCP services were provided by UUNET.CA, an early Internet Service Provider.
Early users of this technology were international shipping companies needing to transmit container data overseas at a reasonable cost compared to modem to modem communications.
External Links
editCaspar Computer Services website
Paytran
York University State of the Net 2005
Ontario Research Network(Orion) website