Who We Are
Founded in 2017, Hawk Networks is revolutionizing telecom by changing how networks are built, funded, and operated. As the incubator of the Althea platform, a blockchain-based technology, Hawk Networks empowers communities and operators to create decentralized, resilient networks.
With key innovations like Key LTE/5G Core, CATS VNO, and AgFiber, Hawk Networks delivers scalable connectivity solutions that enhance collaboration and drive economic growth. Join us as we transform telecom and build the future together.
The Althea Platform
At the forefront of telecom innovation, Hawk Networks incubated the Althea platform, a groundbreaking blockchain-based technology that enables decentralized, multi-stakeholder networks. With cutting-edge features like dynamic routing protocols, machine-to-machine payments, and revenue-sharing smart contracts, Althea empowers communities and operators to efficiently build and manage resilient networks.
Greater User Choice
Althea wallets embedded in consumer products (handsets, vehicles, IoT products, etc.) will offer users greater choice through Althea’s price-aware routing protocol - removing the barrier associated with existing roaming agreements.
Sustainable ISP Network Growth
Using the Althea platform, Hawk Networks coordinates the use of existing infrastructure to build and grow new ISPs more efficiently. These networks are much easier to build and maintain, and they are much more cost-efficient than existing methods. Built for their environments, there are no “dead ends” in a network powered by the Althea platform. Agile design & Open Access encourage further growth, and revenue share is automatic.
Our holistically designed networks allow for IoT, mobility, and fixed wireless. The Althea platform is tech agnostic, meaning networks can be built using Fiber Optic, Fixed Wireless, LTE, LoraWAN, etc.
Smarter Routing
Hawk Networks’s innovative variant of Babel, a distance-vector routing protocol, dynamically routes to the overall best latency connection, so the network can be built to be resilient and redundant with little extra cost.
The Althea platform utilizes an open access architecture, so that any connection can be utilized to grow the network organically. Traffic prioritization using Codel provides the user with an optimized experience for Telehealth, working from home, and online schooling.
The network is fully encrypted and secure, using Wireguard encryption protocols, both network wide and at the router level.
Real-Time Management
Hawk Networks’s Operator Tools (a.k.a. Ops Tools) is an online dashboard with a suite of tools for monitoring, managing, and deploying networks based on the Althea platform. Operator Tools provides a centralized place to keep track of both the technical and financial aspects of your network.
Advanced Billing
Automatic billing frees operators from endless invoices, phone calls, and paper checks. Advanced, machine-to-machine transactions are hardware and device agnostic - the network is future-proof and can grow to utilities, smart farms, and cities, and encompass IOT and 5G connected devices as well as homes and businesses in a customizable way.
