Brandon Ring, Account Manager


Brandon joined LightBound in February 2009. Brandon attended Lincoln Trail College on a golf scholarship; he then went on to attend the PGA Apprentice Program.  Brandon brings over 16 years of outside sales experience in medical, information technology and telecommunications.  Most recently, Brandon has worked for AT&T for in the Healthcare division.  Brandon currently resides in Avon, with his wife of 9 years Taylor and their 5-year old daughter Harper.  He also enjoys playing golf, boating and spending time with his family and friends.

Indiana Cloud Computing - LightBound

Friday, June 18, 2010 by Brandon Ring

What Advantages are there to my firm with Cloud Computing?

  • All practices large or small can take advantage of enterprise level computing via the Cloud
  • No great capital expenditure is required as most services are operated on a rental basis
  • Scalability is quick and easy, as the need for resource increases, firms of all sizes can simply add additional resource as and when required from the cloud computing vendor without capital outlay for additional  hardware
  • Implementation and administration costs are greatly reduced for the client as hardware and applications are provided by the cloud vendor
  • Cloud computing is environmentally friendly as it removes the heating and cooling requirements to a data centre where the economies of scale can prevail


Indiana VoIp - SIP

Friday, June 4, 2010 by Brandon Ring
With SIP trunks, a single network can be maintained within the organization, rather than having both a voice and data network.  Internet bandwidth can be used more efficiently, streamlining expenses.  In addition, Moves, Adds and Changes can be completed without major wiring upgrades.  These benefits all lower costs for the business.

what is SIP - Indiana VoIP

Friday, June 4, 2010 by Brandon Ring
SIP trunking allows enterprises and small businesses to eliminate a PSTN gateway at their site and outsource that function to a carrier.  It is typically a lower-cost alternative to Primary Rate Interfaces (PRIs) because SIP trunks can be purchased in single-trunk increments (as compared to 23 channel increments for a PRI).

Cloud Services - Lightbound - Indiana

Friday, May 14, 2010 by Brandon Ring
Most cloud computing infrastructure consists of reliable services delivered through Data Centers  and built on servers. Clouds often appear as single points of access for all consumers' computing needs. Commercial offerings are generally expected to meet Quality of service (QoS) requirements of customers and typically offer SLAs

Waht is Lightbound Cloud Services - Indiana Provider

Friday, May 14, 2010 by Brandon Ring
Cloud computing is redefining IT
operations by eliminating routine
infrastructure deployment, configuration
and maintenance. Once only a dream,
today dynamic provisioning, paying for
usage, and automatic recovery from
hardware failures are all a reality. COntact lightbound for a quote today

Indiana VoIP

Thursday, March 11, 2010 by Brandon Ring
We had a customer recover  their  total investment in SIP trunking—including a new IP-PBX, phones, network upgrades and the Ingate solution—in twelve months, they have  seen a 40% reduction in the company’s phone bills. 

“Reducing costs and streamlining our support organizations allows us to focus more resources on our clinical and community responsibilities . 


Vo IP

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 by Brandon Ring
SIP trunking allows enterprises and small businesses to eliminate a PSTN gateway at their site and outsource that function to a carrier.  It is typically a lower-cost alternative to Primary Rate Interfaces (PRIs) because SIP trunks can be purchased in single-trunk increments (as compared to 23 channel increments for a PRI).
With SIP trunks, a single network can be maintained within the organization, rather than having both a voice and data network.  Internet bandwidth can be used more efficiently, streamlining expenses.  In addition, Moves, Adds and Changes can be completed without major wiring upgrades.  These benefits all lower costs for the business.

VoIP

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 by Brandon Ring
IP trunking is a term applied to the options offered by many service providers.  These are traditional phone companies and others such as cable companies and new entrants referred to as Internet Telephony Service Providers or ITSPs. These service providers accept VoIP traffic over the Public Internet or private connections which they then place on the telephony network to reach residential and business customers.  Inbound calls are received at the service provider central office and then sent over the Internet to the intended recipient, again using VoIP as the transport medium.

SIP Provider

Friday, February 12, 2010 by Brandon Ring
For companys  wanting to make full use of their installed IP-PBXs and not only communicate over IP within the enterprise, but also outside the enterprise a SIP trunk provided by an Internet Telephony Service Provider to connect to the traditional PSTN network is the solution. Unlike in traditional telephony, where bundles of physical wires were once delivered from the service provider to a business, a SIP trunk allows a company to replace these traditional fixed PSTN lines with PSTN connectivity via a SIP trunking service provider on the Internet.

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 .

Data Disaster Recovery

Thursday, January 14, 2010 by Brandon Ring
Availability means keeping IT resources continually accessible and
usable. One of the first questions management should ask is what level
of availability should the data center have. Should it be mission critical,
i.e., available uninterrupted all day and night, 365 days a year?
Does the company need its systems, data and applications to be
continuously accessible “24x7x365

Indiana Wireless Internet Providers

Friday, January 8, 2010 by Brandon Ring
When  Wireless internet security and wireless computer security crops up. Users have to employ antivirus software to secure their wireless internet and wireless internet connections. Anti-spam programmes are used to counter email inboxes overflowing with useless spam; but still there are a myriad adware and spyware programmers monitoring the user’s wire less internet activity..

Indiana Server Hosting

Friday, December 18, 2009 by Brandon Ring

Hosting uptime  refers to the percentage of time the host is accessible via the internet. Many providers state that they aim for at least 99.9% uptime (roughly equivalent to 45 minutes of downtime a month, or less), but there may be server restarts and planned (or unplanned) maintenance in any hosting environment, which may or may not be considered part of the official uptime promise.

Many providers tie uptime and accessibility into their own service level agreement (SLA). SLAs sometimes include refunds or reduced costs if performance goals are not met.


Data Backup Service

Thursday, December 10, 2009 by Brandon Ring
managed backup service is a service that provides users with a system for backing up  and storing computer files . Online back up providers  are companies that provide this type of service.

Online backup systems are typically built around a client software program that runs on a schedule, typically once a day. This program collects, compresses, encrypts, and transfers the data to the remote backup service provider's servers. Other types of product are also available in the market.

Providers of this type of service frequently target specific market segments. High-end LAN-based backup systems may offer services such as near-realtime transaction-level replication or open file backups.


VoIP

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 by Brandon Ring
SIP Trunking is simply a single conduit pipeline for multimedia elements (voice, video and data). SIP Trunking reduces or eliminates the need for PSTN media gateways as well as reduce or eliminate the need for narrow-band voice circuits  SIP Trunking provides a smart and cost effective solution to customers by eliminating the need to purchase additional equipment, such as managed media gateway devices to interface between IP voice to the PSTN; additionally, SIP Trunking provides the following

Managed Hosting Sevice

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 by Brandon Ring

A dedicated hosting service, dedicated server, or managed hosting service is a type of Internet hosting in which the client leases an entire server not shared with anyone. This is more flexible than shared hosting  as organizations have full control over the server(s), including choice of operating systems, hardware, etc. Server administration can usually be provided by the hosting company as an add-on service. In some cases a dedicated server can offer less overhead and a larger return on investment  Dedicated servers are most often housed in data centers, similar to colocation facilities, providing redundant power sources and HVAC  systems. In contrast to colocation, the server hardware is owned by the provider and in some cases they will provide support for your operating system or applications.


Indiana VoIP

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 by Brandon Ring
VoIP can provide a professional and streamlined approach to business calling for small businesses and businesses with multiple locations.  SIP gateways, also very practical in business applications, are available from many service providers.  
 Plus, many VoIP service providers welcome you to "bring your own device."  If you're already purchased VoIP phones or adapters, or have an asterisk pbx server up and running, you may be able to use them with your new service plan. "Bring Your own Device plans are excellent ways for a small business to tie in an asterisk server to a sip/gateway to be able to handle a few or even dozens of inbound and outbound lines.

Indiana VoIp Solutions

Friday, November 13, 2009 by Brandon Ring
Using a VoIP provider gives you more of a measure of security than relying on freeware systems available on the Internet. The primary defence mechanism of any computer is the firewall. Providing a barrier between your computer or network and security threats such as hackers and viruses, a firewall offers a degree of protection that filters data going in and out of your network. As VoIP works by breaking voice messages into digital data, a standard firewall installed in your PC may not be enough to offer you full protection. VoIP providers have much more stringent firewalls installed on their main servers, which protects the entire network and all machines linked into that network. This is one of the primary reasons why, if you're serious about using VoIP on a regular basis, it's best to sign up with a bona fide VoIP provider.

What is Managed Hosting

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 by Brandon Ring
Managed Hosting: An expanded dedicated hosting service where the web host manages server(s) for their clients. Managed hosting ideal for companies that don't have an internal IT staff, or want to free up their IT staff to focus on other tasks. Many companies are skeptical about turning the management & hosting of their servers over to a web hosting provider, but those who utilize managed hosting services are finding that IT outsourcing can save money and time while letting them focus on core business initiatives.