Member Spotlight

Planet Networks was founded as Garden Networks in 1994 in Newton, New Jersey to provide Internet access and services to a small and under-served rural community from the garage of an old firehouse with only 3 modems. Over the ensuing years, Garden grew and changed. Due to our proximity to New York City, we were an early entrant into the NYC Internet access market.

We quickly found the name Garden Networks was a limiting factor in marketing due to the connection to the state of New Jersey (The Garden State) and the assumption by many customers that we only served New Jersey. We changed the company name to Tellurian Networks and continued our growth. We loved the name Tellurian since it had a double meaning 1. of or related to the earth and 2. human beings, but people always had a hard time spelling it. As part of this growth, we acquired over 14 smaller competitors including: RT Online, CSI Online, Shore Networks, Ingress, LSI, NJ Internet, and more. For one of our many acquisitions, we purchased our original inspiration for becoming an ISP back in 1994, Planet Access Networks. Since we loved the domain name Planet.Net and they were also the inspiration for the change to the more global name Tellurian, we changed our company name to Planet Networks. It is easier to spell and pronounce and Planet Networks brought us back to our roots and kept the message of a global scope for our network and services. Along the way, we sold off our medical software hosting business to Dell Perot Systems in 2008, but we continued to offer Internet, IT services, and software hosting.

Over the past 30 years, our company and the scope of our services have grown to serve a global market, but we still live by the same fundamental principles of honesty and integrity in all we do, excellence in all aspects of our services, and working smarter to provide tremendous value to our clients.