About Us

For over eighteen years, one of the best-kept secrets in the Washington DC / Annapolis Maryland area was a well-camouflaged high-speed computing and telecommunications facility run by a small company of highly-educated degreed engineers providing top-secret communications, computer, and data network design engineering services to NASA, Department of Defense, and intelligence-community customers. Today, that company has opened their doors to the public and converted their state-of-the-art high speed computer facilities, leased-lines, and fiber-optic communications network into the area's fastest, most efficient, and best-engineered major nationwide telecommunications carriers. Our primary Network Operations Center is still located in the Washington DC area near Annapolis Maryland, in what we affectionately call "The Bunker", set well off Riva Road in the midst of tall trees on acres of thickly-wooded land near an equally well-hidden high-speed fiber-optic termination facility ( also curiously sitting out in the middle of the woods ;-). We now offer innovative public Internet services to everyone in the Annapolis, Baltimore, Washington DC, and US Nationwide areas. Our nationwide Carrier Group resells bulk Internet access to numerous other ISPs across the nation, and ensures access by every RIVA.NET subscriber to over 50,000 local calling phone numbers nationwide. Although the vast majority of our business is in hosting web sites, dedicated colocated web servers, and bulk high-speed Internet connectivity, we also offer nationwide 56K dialup, accelerated near-DSL (300+ kb/s) dialup, high-speed DSL (384 kb/s to 3.0 Mb/s) access, and both personal and business T1, T3, and OC3 connectivity solutions for consumers and businesses across the country. We also offer advanced satellite and wireless broadcast high-speed services.

Who We Are

We are RIVA.NET, a major nationwide retail and wholesale carrier ISP with the lowest prices, best customer service, and the friendliest, most technically-competent staff anywhere in the Annapolis MD area or indeed the entire nation. We are the most flexible in terms of providing exceedingly high quality services for both the home modem user and the dedicated high-reliability business user. No other ISP in the Washington DC / Baltimore MD / Annapolis MD area with nationwide presence has a technical staff composed entirely of degreed, experienced professional electrical engineers, computer engineers, and software engineers. No other ISP has high-speed fiber technology equivalent to 52 T-3 circuits. We are experts in the Internet's finest equipment: Sun Solaris, BSD UNIX, and Windows 2000 Advanced Server software platforms running on the latest, fastest multi-processor scalable hardware with Intel multi-processor Pentium Xeon, Sun, and DEC CPUs. We have designed leading-edge defense systems that help protect this country today from the most sophisticated of threats from abroad, and C4I systems that provide virtually instantaneous worldwide voice and computer data network communications to tie together our country's leaders in both peacetime and times of conflict.

What Sets Us Above Other Area ISPs:

RIVA.NET offers unparalleled customer service. We will even come to your home or office and set you up!

RIVA.NET offers the highest technical quality, reliability and fastest server performance of any ISP!

RIVA.NET offers the lowest prices compared to other Annapolis, Washington DC, and Baltimore ISPs, most nationwide ISPs, and all securely under one roof.

RIVA.NET listens to your needs and provides solutions that maximize every dollar you spend to get on the Internet.

RIVA.NET is FAST - we have the equivalent bandwidth-on-demand of 54 T-3s via our high-reliability triply-redundant OC-12 fiber backbone interfaces. We offer DSL connection speeds up to 3.0 Mb/s, and leased-line speeds up to 620 Mb/s (OC12 fiber).

We also feature two-way satellite backup for extreme emergencies. When the other ISPs are "down deader than dirt", you'll still be connected.

We have been an ISP for over eighteen years now - longer than anyone else in this metropolitan area.

We helped design the Internet, during the DARPA and ARPA years and early nsfnet conversion days. Today, we continue this design in IWG and IETF fora.

We know where technology is heading, and we are changing and evolving constantly to keep you our customers at the forefront of innovative, lower-cost, highest-speed connectivity.

Our all-under-one-roof web site hosting, web design, site marketing, and business promotion services will get your business on the Web quicker and with better results than other companies in the area who lack one or more of our integrated services. We make sure your site stays on top of all the most popular search engines.

Come Join Us ! Call 410.956.0500 today !