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.

Hosted PBX from LightBound Lunch and Learn

Monday, May 17, 2010 by Jay Cutler
LightBound will be doing a Lunch and Learn on June 16th at 731 W. Henry Street. Come see the new evolution in VoIP PBX solutions and how LightBound is adding Hosted VoIP PBX solution to our stable of Cloud Serves including Virtual Servers, Virtual Storage, Managed Services.

We will be doing a live demostration of our Hosted VoIP PBX solutions and how if can make your organization more productive.  

LightBound has been the leader in Indiana Internet Services since the early 90's.

Look forward to seeing you at our demo of Hosted Voip PBX Services.

LightBound Hosted VoIP now ready for your business!

Monday, May 3, 2010 by Ron Pirau
LightBound is an Indiana VoIP provider that is now offering a complete hosted VoIP service service.  If you are looking for VoIP PBX Solutions and don't want to invest a lot of up front capital this is the service that you have been looking for.  A hosted VoIP service is a great part of a Business Continuity solution that can help keep your business up and running in the event of business disruption at your office.  The LightBound hosted voice fits directly inthe Cloud Services model that many customers are looking for today.   If you have been looking at outsourcing management of services to a provider of virtualization services, replication of critical data to a off-site virtual storage or off site data backup service, why not consider moving your phone system to a provider of hosted VoIP PBX solutions like LightBound.  The service starts at 5 users and will scale up to 100 users. The hosted service uses Fonality trixBox Enterprise Edition which provides an award winning user interface, HUD, to help improve productivity.  See HUD for Employees or HUD for Executives for all the productivity enhancement the your business can benefit from.   If your organization outgrows the hosted application and you need an on premise VoIP PBX Solutions its an easy transition to a dedicated Fonality VoIP server for your business. LightBound can simplify the operations of your business by being a single source for Internet Service Indiana

Indiana VoIP and PBX

Friday, March 5, 2010 by Jennifer Shinkle
Still time to register! 11:30-1 at LightBound's Data Center

March 10th Lunch and Learn on LightBound's Hosted VoIP PBX Solutions and Fonality trixbox recent enhancement!

LightBound offers a cost effective and turnkey service for small to mid-sized businesses that offer Internet Service, Voice and Hosted Phone System.

This system is based on Fonality trixbox so as your business grows you can migrate to a dedicated PBX without lost of investment.  Fonality will be adding some enhancements and will demonstrate their new version of the VoIP PBX-trixbox!

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.


LightBound VoIP Service

Thursday, January 14, 2010 by Kate Rance
LightBound, an Indiana VoIP service provider, offers SIP and many other types of voice service.
SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) utilizes the same data connection as your internet so that small businesses can save on communication costs.

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.

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.


Beware of companies overing voice services over open Internet

Monday, December 14, 2009 by Ron Pirau

If you are looking at VoIP PBX Solutions and VoIP Service Providers that say they can offer voice with QOS over the open Internet you need to beware. We have run into this several times and this is how the scenario goes.   The provider that is offering voice services over the open Internet  tells customers that they provide QOS in their router or phone system and if they have enough bandwidth it should not be a problem.   The customer signs up for the service and then after several months they begin experiencing problems.  The provider then tells them it’s the problem of their ISP not having QOS.   The ISP (LightBound in this case) gets a black eye for not having “QOS” and then the provider tells them if they get their Internet directly through them the problem will be resolved.  The customer is bound under contract for the voice service and then winds up having to pay for another Internet circuit that has QOS.   

There is no way to provide QOS over the open Internet because there is not end to end control of the circuit.  Once the data packet carrier voice leave the router or switch from your location there is no guarantee that other routers downstream will treat the QOS packet with any priority. Will voice work over the open Internet?   Yes it will, sometimes, but there is no guarantee and it is on a best effort basis.  LightBound is able to offer QOS to your office because the circuit is directly connected from the LightBound data center to your office and there is equipment that can be set up to provide QOS at each end. 

The other advantage we offer is direct support for the entire solution around the clock 7 x 24 x 365 through our NOC.  LightBound offers Internet Service Indiana through a direct connection to your company location through a circuit that is a T1 or higher.  LightBound also provides the voice services through our class 5 voice switch in the data center.  If there ever is an issue with our voice switch or circuit the NOC technicians are monitoring around the clock.   We are the provider of the Internet, Voice server, and PBX solution, so if you have issue there is one number to call.  We manage hundreds of circuits and have processes in place that quickly resolve issues with telecommunications.  Others vendors who offer VoIP PBX Solutions with VoIP Server Providers are agents and most likely don't have a NOC, or the breadth and depth to provide to support the service around the clock, but you may want to check with them

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.

DECEMBER 2, 2009 | 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. FONALITY TRIXBOX - CALL CENTER EDITION & UNIFIED AGENT EDITION

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 by Ron Pirau
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Webinar, November 11, 2009, 11:30 am -1:00 pm - FONALITY VoIP PBX AND LIGHTBOUND IP CONVERGE

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 by Ron Pirau

Learn about LightBound's complete voice solution for all your business communication needs. Fonality's full featured VoIP PBX Solutions, with integrated voice messaging and call center functionality costing a fraction of comparable systems, will be demonstrated. LightBound IP Converge provides voice services and Internet over a single circuit that works with your current voice system whether it takes analog, PRI, or SIP. Why pay for a separate PRI circuit or analog voice lines when you can get voice over your Internet connection from LightBound, one of Indiana's top VoIP Service Providers?


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.

Colocation for Business Continuity

Monday, October 12, 2009 by Ron Pirau
Businesses have to plan for operating in event of a disruption in business operations at their main facilities.  This planning is commonly referred to as business continuity.  Since most business rely heavily on IT it would make sense to plan on having critical resources available over the Internet.  Internet is highly available so employees can access when they are on the road traveling away from the office or working at home.  To keep the business up and running it would pay off to have your critical information backed up using  off site data backup service and using server collocation to have backup servers or primary servers   This would surely help in data disaster recovery if the primary location was every effected by a power outage, damage of equipment, or theft.  The data housed on equipment at the data center or back up service could be restored and get the business up and running at the main facility.   LightBound can be a one stop shop for business continuity needs providing WAN, Indiana Server Hosting, and Internet Service Indiana. 

LightBound Data Recovery and Disaster Recovery

Friday, October 9, 2009 by Kate Rance

LightBound is Indiana's leading Data Recovery and Disaster Recovery businesses. We can offer off site data backup services over your current Internet service connection. Most business continuity plans today must have a disaster recovery plan. For daily backup needs LightBound can use tape backups or full server backups using Arkeia.

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.
 

LightBound launches a facebook page

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 by Kate Rance

In order for LightBound, Indiana's Largest Internet Service Provider, to become more widely known, we have launched our new facebook page. Please become a fan of LightBound. We invite you to join our discussion board where we will be posting topics on virtual hosting vs. colocation, VoIP phone systems, SIP lines,disaster recovery, business continutity, and many other subjects.

LightBound offers top of the line WAN consolidation

Thursday, October 1, 2009 by Kate Rance

LightBound, Indiana's Internet Service Provider, offers WAN consolidation within a customers network, or by utilizing the LightBound data center.
LightBound also offer WAN Optimization products that help avoid packet delivery issues common in shared WAN environments, like MPLS and Internet VPNs. The optimization also eliminates the transfer of redundant data across the WAN by sending references instead of the actual data. The compression relies on data patterns that can be represented more efficiently and are best suited for point to point leased lines, which LightBound can provide.

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.