What is a Caboose?
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) carry out some pretty sophisticated experiments in the Antarctic. This requires a lot of sensitive electronic equipment and it has to be housed safely against hurricane winds and temperatures as low as -55C. So BAS put all this sort of equipment into insulated huts which are called ‘cabooses’, like the one shown here. So when it came to naming a company that protected networks against the threats of the internet, the name just had to be ‘Net Caboose’! In the States, a Caboose is the guard’s van on a train which is also quite apt.
