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Company History

Tom Gillihan started Sterling Communications in 1997 with an aggressive launch schedule that had the first bytes pathed on the network in March of 1998. VP of Engineering, Bill Anderson joined the company in January 2000. At that time, they offered dial-up, web hosting, co-location, and frame-relay services. Broadband was added to the product line in June 2000, and the first DSL customer signed on in August 2000. From the very beginning, Filtered Internet access has been part of Sterling's product offering and has helped them achieve their mission: to offer safe and productive internet services for both businesses and families.

During the course of 2003, Sterling added national dial-up service, filtering software for spam and virus, and LAN high-speed services in the Portland metropolitan area to round out their product offering. The company continued to grow rapidly, solely through the positive word-of-mouth being generated by their customers. Today the company has the infrastructure and bandwidth to support the biggest corporations, smaller businesses and residential customers with a reliable, safe and productive way to utilize the internet.


Blue Dog

Sterling Communications allows us to work smarter, not harder.

"When Blue Dog Creative was looking for a new ISP, the name that kept coming up was Sterling.

We were concerned about switching ISPs knowing both Blue Dog and our clients couldn’t afford the downtime. But we were amazed at how smooth the transition went. Sterling stepped in and worked out the details so that our business never skipped a beat.

As a local designer of corporate marketing materials for web, print and video, our reputation depends upon being accessible and providing superior service. With partners like Sterling willing to go the extra mile, there’s no telling how far we can go."

—Christine Thatcher & Annie
blue dog creative