High Speed Internet in Indiana

Need SAN or NAS that's cost efficient, easy to manager, and scalable? Look no further!

Friday, July 23, 2010 by Ron Pirau

Is your direct attached storage at capacity for your servers and your are thinking about adding more storage or a NAS? Is the maintenance for your current SAN up for renewal but budget is limited? Are you at capacity for your current SAN but don't have capital to acquire another SAN chassis? If you answer yes to any of these question Scale Computing SAN is something you need to look at. Scale Computing SAN is about 1/2 to 1/3 the price of competing SAN solution, is less complex to operation, and expands when you need to in 1,2, and 4 TB increments with a scalable predictable cost. Scale Computing also includes replication so if you have DR requirements you can locate another Scale SAN in an off site location and replicate. To save on capital costs LightBound uses Scale Computing SAN as part of the off-site data backup service for a monthly recurring cost. LightBound also sells Scale Computing Storage Area Network Solutions and can fully implement the SAN on your site and also set up the replication to our shared storage server. LightBound is an Indiana High Speed Internet provider and offers circuits starting at a T1 to a direct fiber connection that can provide the bandwidth needed for the replication server. If you want to take 10 minutes to see what Scale is all about lick on webinar to watch a short video. If you need more information on Scale's SAN & NAS please send an email to sales@lightbound.net or contact your LightBound account manager.

why choose LightBound Managed Servers Hosting

Friday, February 5, 2010 by Ron Pirau

LightBound offers Managed Servers Hosting as do several other Indiana Server Hosting companies. Why choose LightBound over others?   See below for a few reasons:

1) LightBound has been supporting IP services since the mid-90's through their ISP service and has a fully redundant, high capacity Internet connection directly connected to the NAP, peeering with Equinix packet exchange.   LightBound also has four connections to top tier Internet providers at the NAP so Internet service is going to be rock solid high speed internet in Indiana. LightBound has total control and visibility of it's Internet upstream connectivity. other providers may have several connections to ISP's. LightBound IS the ISP for managed servers hosting.

2) LightBound provides a flexible, customized server hosting rather than just a few options.   You can choose bare-metal and work with your internal IT staff or IT consulting firm to provide OS, development or application platform, or LightBound can provide all these services.

3) LightBound deploys security technologies at the VM level to secure your managed server from other environments. This has been designed to satisfy compliance regulations. This provides the most cost effective model for the customer versus dedicating server blade in a chassis to each customer.

4) LightBound has Data Disaster Recover/Business Continuity service to provde computer and phone directly for your internal staff to get to managed hosting services with 32 seats ready to go and capacility for up to 60 workstations. No worrying about a third party to deliver this service.

5) LightBound has 19 telecommunication carriers with facilities in the data center. If your business has multiple branches and terminates circuits in the data center to get to the managed servers cost efficienciences can be realized by choosing from the manay carriers to get the best cost.

High Performance Business Internet - Look to LightBound!

Friday, January 22, 2010 by Ron Pirau

Are you looking for High Speed Internet in Indiana for your Server Collocation and Managed Servers Hosting? LightBound can take care of this for your business. Our Internet is not like the DSL or Cable Internet offering that you get at your home. We have a 24 x 7 x 365 data center NOC staffed around the clock. We are a top tier business Internet provider with direct links to the NAP in Chicago and Ashburn, VA with direct peering connection with Equinix packet exchange. Through this the server is one hop away from Internal networks at Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and hundreds of others. We have two 2.5GB connections to the NAP, and each connection has two 1 GB upstream (for redundancy) to top Internet carriers. Our 2.5 GB connection to Chicago is also redundant with a diverse path. We have very large customers with high availability requirements so we have architected this network for premium service. That being said our pricing is not the cheapest, but we deliver the best value for your business, especially is your rely on High Speed Internet in Indiana.

Indiana VoIP

Thursday, January 14, 2010 by Brandon Ring

The equipment available today that uses VoIP technology can be an analog telephone adapter for your head set through the computer. There are a few VoIP phones that act like a regular analog telephone but have the ATA incorporated into the phone. It's actually a small dedicated personal computer in your telephone. These VoIP phones can be plugged into the computer with high speed internet connection or into the router .

LightBound State of the Art Data Center

Friday, December 18, 2009 by Kate Rance

LightBound, an Indiana server collocation provider offers a unique solution to your business continuity needs. In our data center we can supply mail server hosting, high speed Internet, and off site data backup service, along with many other services.

LightBound- Internet bandwidth is not all the same

Wednesday, December 9, 2009 by Kate Rance

LightBound, an Indiana Internet Access Service Provider offers high speed Internet unlike what most other Internet service providers can offer. LightBound peers directly with the top Internet providers in the country in order to provide a robust and redundant network with low latency.
I spoke with a customer today that is struggling with the cost of bandwidth and trying to weigh the options between a more cost-effective option versus the more costly option with higher speed. In their daily business they upload large graphic files and need to have a robust network in order to guarantee Internet access at all times, with a high upload speed. After reviewing their options they decided upon LightBound's Internet access service so that they can insure their business is constantly online and running.
LightBound also offers business continuity, WAN configuration, and VoIP services over their high-speed network.

Fonality trixbox can be a great PBX solution for K-12

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 by Ron Pirau

I just finished a webinar on Fonality trixbox VoIP PBX Solutions with a K-12 education prospective customer. There were two features that they IT director really like. He thought the chat feature was a very usual feature built into trixbox Pro HUD. He thought that staff could use this quick method to communicate without having to play voicemail tag. He also liked the idea of the presence management through the HUD. He has staff distributed in five buildings over a dispersed area and liked the ability at a glance to see who is on line, and to quickly click an icon to chat, call their land line, cell phone, or email. Another feature he liked was managed servers hosting services that could be provided in support the solution for him. As long as he has high speed Internet in Indiana and direct WAN connection to the LightBound data center almost all support can be provided remotely over the Internet. In the event that on-site support is needed LightBound partners with the AME Group which can service all customers in Indiana within a 4 hour response time. The final thing he liked was that the Fonality trixbox is about half the cost of traditional VoIP PBX providers. With costs being tight for schools this is a great solution to consider to increase functionality at a low cost.

Hosted VoIP

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 by Kate Rance

LightBound, Indiana's leading VoIP service provider, Hosted VoIP (voice over internet protocol) has become a highly popular business communication solution. This is due to prolific high speed internet connections and the opportunities this has created for improved business communication. Hosted VoIP is an internet based telecommunications system, mostly dependent on software instead of hardware and offers VoIP PBX soutlions such as calling, voice mail, fax and email.

IP Communications helps sustain productivity in event disruptions

Monday, October 5, 2009 by Ron Pirau

I've had a few companies asking about video conferencing to help with communications in event of the H1N1 virus. They told me that limiting interaction among branches can help with spread of the virus. This is one strategy that can help in event of a major business disruption that effects the work population. In order to accommodate this a solid WAN must be in place to support the video conferencing. This can go a step further by also using VoIP PBX Solutions that can work anywhere your employees are. This can help if they are working at home or remote locations due to sickness or weather related issues. There are even desktop and PC based video conferencing for key managers and executives. The key to supporting this is to make sure that each person in the company has High Speed Internet in Indiana at their homes along with a strong VPN solution to be able to conduct business communications even when the workers are not at home. Having a plan in place where employees can get work done using IP communications is essential for business continuity as we approach the season for rougher weather and illness.

Salesforce & Fonality Trixbox disruptive innovation that changes the game for SMB

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 by Ron Pirau

I attended the Techpoint Innovation Summit '09 in Indianapolis, Indiana and Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business Professor, was the keynote speaker. He spoke about "disruption innovation" and the way that it drives innovation that upsets the apple cart for the incumbent providers of products and services. One interesting service he pointed out was Salesforce CRM. CRM systems typically were only affordable by large corporate entities that had large central systems and a corporate WAN to distribute access throughout the corporation. Salesforce is a CRM system that provides enterprise level functionality, accessibility and scalability to the smallest of businesses, even a single person business, as long as they have High Speed Internet in Indiana. Another disruptive innovation that offers enterprise level functionality, including call center capability, is Fonality Trixbox IP PBX. Call centers typically are six figure capital investments requiring a large staff to support. Fonality Trixbox is a VoIP PBX Solutions that can be implemented for about 20% of the cost and it integrates with Salesforce CRM. The combination of the two can enable a start up or SMB compete with the large Fortune 500 corporation at a fraction of the cost.

Unified Communication using the HUD 3 by Trixbox

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 by Jennifer Shinkle

Fonality Trixbox IP-PBX software solution allowing employees to manage their company's communication straight from their desktop with an Internet connection.

*With a unified presence on the HUD (Heads Up Display) you can be available without being in the office. Working from a remote location has not been easier.

*The color coded HUD status screen allows you to see if another employee is on a call, conference call or available. If an employee is on a call you can communicate effortlessly with the chat on the HUD for an immediate response.

*With a mouse you can simply drag and drop to transfer a call from HUD interface, making communication seamless.

*Outlook and Trixbox contacts can be synched together to help you manage your time with calling clients.

*Trixbox can also be integrated with Salesforce CRM or Sugar CRM.

Getting High Speed Internet Access with the VoIP PBX Solutions from Fonality can increase productivity and provide Business Continuity.

Fonality VoIP PBX Solution is a great companion to SalesForce CRM

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 by Ron Pirau

One of the great tools that we use here at LightBound to manage our sales and operational processes is SalesForce. It is a SaaS CRM solution that you can get to anywhere that you have Internet Access. It provides Enterprise class CRM functionality that even small businesses can afford. LightBound also offers a great VoIP PBX that easily integrates with SalesForce. Fonality Trixbox is one of the best VoIP PBX Solutions for small businesses as it is very affordable and has built in support to integrate with SalesForce CRM. Fonality Trixbox will also work natively with SIP so it works well with services offered by VoIP Service Providers in the corporate office as well as working on the road or at home. As long as you have a High Speed Internet connection you can get to the two most productive tools in business, Fonality Trixbox to call customers and SalesForce CRM. Due to the integration calls made through Fonality Trixbox are automatically logged into SalesForce which makes tracking of calls easy for Sales or Customer Support to log. If you are small business and want to keep a step a head of the competition consider using Fonality and SalesForce to keep you at the front of the pack.

Make sure your Internet Service Provider has redundancy

Thursday, June 4, 2009 by Ron Pirau

If you're business relies on having high availability Internet service make sure that your Internet DSL Internet or High Speed Internet in Indiana provider has upstream redundant connections. Ask your Internet providers what business continuity and data disaster recovery plans they have to keep service running in event of upstream service interruption. There are many Internet providers that only have a single upstream connection to the Internet. There was a major outage in the area last week due to a fiber cut in a key communication line to an upstream Internet Provider in Chicago. This left many customers without Internet Service. Lightbound, which provides High Speed Internet in Indiana, has two 2.5 GB upstream connections, one to Herndon, Virginia and the other to Chicago. Even though the Chicago connection was cut there still was a full 2.5 GB connection to Virginia that provided Lightbound customers uninterrupted Internet Access Indiana. This is very important if you are using managed servers hosting or server collocation in a facility that needs always available High Speed Internet in Indiana.

Faster Connectivity and Higher Bandwidth to Internet and Data Center

Monday, May 4, 2009 by Ron Pirau

The most common question that are customers are asking about today is higher bandwidth and faster connectivity for Internet Service Indiana or for companies to connect to Server Collocation in the data center. Many customers today have T1 circuits for Internet or Collocation and are pushing the circuits to the limits of their capacity. The cost of Ethernet circuits for 6 and 10 MB, and even 100 MB has decreased drastically compared to costs in the past. Customers are looking for the larger circuits as they are interested in moving their primary or backup servers to a high availability and highly secure data center that is staffed 24 x 7 x 365. They are also looking at disaster recovery and performing off site data back service. Customers are also moving to "cloud computing" applications such as Salesforce and need much larger bandwidth to handle the needs of increased Internet demand. An increase to an Ethernet circuit (typically at least 6 MB or above) versus a T1 circuit (1.5 MB) can result in a four fold increase in bandwidth. Customers can contract for Internet Service Indiana with a contracted Internet rate lower than the circuit bandwidth and get an advantage of bursting over the contracted rate on occasion without extra costs. Bursting is charged using what's known as 95th percentile billing which allows the customer to burst over contracted rate for 36 hours per month without additional charges. If you need High Speed Internet in Indiana contact us today to see how cost effective an Ethernet circuit can be to deliver your Internet or connect to our data center.

Save on operational costs with managed servers hosting

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 by Ron Pirau

In today's tight economy many companies are looking for ways to cut or control operational expenses or increase productivity of employees. One way to do this is through managed servers hosting with an Indiana server hosting company that has high speed Internet in Indiana. Many companies have IT personnel who would be better focused on improving business processes specific to the company. If a company would move the application servers to a managed servers hosting company the day to day maintenance and updating of the underlying operation system would be taking care of. When in house personnel do the updates and maintenance they are wasting time on work that could be done more efficiently by a company that specializes in support of servers. The company IT employees are much more familiar with their internal business process and applications and would be better off spending their time in creating competitive business advantages by making improvements on those processing. Another way to cut costs is when an IT employee leaves voluntarily consider hiring a company who provides managed servers hosting to provide the services that the previous employee took care of. The cost for paying for IT support services for Indiana Servers Hosting may be less expensive in the long run the hiring a direct employee. Data centers with Internet Service Indiana can provider managed servers hosting and help increase productivity of your IT employees.

Connecting to the Cloud

Wednesday, April 8, 2009 by Ron Pirau

Cloud computing has been the buzz in the IT industry as of recent. The benefit of cloud computing is cost savings by not having to make investment in capital IT resources. You purchase on demand the the unused capacity of another companies computing power. If you are using cloud computing for applications that your information workers use on a daily basis they key to performance is a high quality Internet connection. Many companies buy Internet purely as a commodity and look at it on a price for MB basis. All Internet access is not created equal. You need to consider who is you Internet provider using for upstream connections. How large are the upstream connections. Do they have redundant upstream providers. If you have a Internet Service Provider who provides a 10 MB connection to a business, but they only has a DS3 (45 MB) connection that is shared among 100 or more businesses you are not going to get very good service. In order to get peak performance for cloud computing check into the details of what you Internet Service Provider has behind the scenes. For top quality Internet Service Indiana, Internet Access Indiana, Indiana DSL Internet, and High Speed Internet in Indiana look to Lightbound to provide you top quality high performing service.

WAN Consolidation can resolve issues faster

Thursday, February 12, 2009 by Ron Pirau

Have you ever had a recurring problem with a WAN circuit that just wouldn't go away? Your circuit went down and you called the carrier to report the issue and they told you there was no problem? The problem would be fixed temporarily and then come back the next few days. If you reply on High Speed Internet in Indiana to get your business done this can be very frustrating. If you consolidate your WAN services in a data center with an experience NOC staff they can help solve these issues quicker. An experienced NOC engineer will know the tricks of the trade to keep a case open to resolve the issue once and for all instead of having repeated outages. The carrier technical support call center rep has one goal in mind - to close cases as fast as they can. The quicker and the more cases are resolved the more they are paid. A long standing open case costs the technical support representative so they would rather close a case than keep it open to make sure the issue is solved. Lightbound NOC engineers have one goal in mind - to keep your circuits up and running and minimize any downtime. They can do this 24 x7 x 365. Does your IT support staff provide this type of service. If not try calling Lightbound today for Indiana WAN and Internet Service in Indiana.

Investment in Health IT and Economic Stimulus

Wednesday, January 28, 2009 by Ron Pirau

I ran across an interesting article about Indiana Health IT driving Economic Stimulus. See :

http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/0-0&fd=R&url=http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl%3FACCT%3D104%26STORY%3D/www/story/01-28-2009/0004961987%26EDATE%3D&cid=1298199546&ei=G4eASbD6GIbElQT254H-AQ&usg=AFQjCNG2ZTF8PbhV92mvleOLxFemAiBcTg

It's pretty interesting that Central Indiana is considered a leader in Health IT. I think much of this has to do with the Internet Service Indiana providers that facilitate high speed broadband connectivity to many of the Health providers. Typically in the past T1 circuits were typically used, but now 10, 100, and Gigabit Ethernet circuits are becoming common to connect health care providers. This is necessary to due the large amount of data that medical imaging requires and access that remotely connected physicians need to access it. Many of the medical providers in Indiana WAN are being moved to data centers to provide business continuity to facilitate always on connectivity 24x7x365. The cost of high speed broadband in central Indiana is helping to facilitate the exchange of information to improve health information exchange.

Why 24 x 7 Business Continuity is needed in todays economy

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 by Ron Pirau

How many businesses in Central Indiana can afford to maintain a staff 24x7x365 to support their IT systems? How many businesses need 24x7x365 to remain competitive in today's always business environment? All of them! In order to do so many businesses are migrating to an environment that provides business continuity 24 x 7 in order to accomplish this. Moving critical applications to managed servers hosting environment or server collocation in an Indiana Server Hosting Data Center can accomplish this. A data center that has 24x7 network operations center staff can provide data disaster recover in the event an issue happens with one of the servers. In additional moving to a VoIP PBX and locating in the data center using voice services from a VoIP service provide can bring an extra level of business continuity. This type of service is not only for large Enterprise customers. Small Business server hosting can also be done quite cost effectively. WAN consolidation can also provide enhanced business continuity by centralizing in a data center where business applications reside. WAN consolidation also provides considerable cost savings in many cases. The only way this will work for companies is by using high speed Internet in Indiana. Providers of Indiana DSL Internet, Ethernet or T1 Internet can provide this high speed Internet Connectivity. The data center and managed services can provide round the clock support in a highly available and reliable facility at a fraction of the cost of employee staff to perform the IT support functions. To keep businesses running 24x7 this should be a key part of a successful business strategy.