3. THE LIGHTBOUND MISSION
We provide the essential foundation for your business. Your IP
Foundation. Our services are always fast, always on, and our
operations teams are always available to support you.
We know every device and every network serves the information
that matters most to your employees and your clients. More
importantly, we realize there’s more to it than just speeds and feeds.
That’s why we’ve committed ourselves to finding a better way.
For over 20 years, we’ve been the hometown provider of choice,
serving Indiana companies, 24x7, so that you can serve your
employees and your clients 24x7
LIGHTBOUND.COM
3Who We Are
6. 24/7/365 NOC with 10 FTE’s Weekdays, 6 FTE’s Weekends
Thorough, detailed guard checks every 2 hours
Department of Homeland Security – protected infrastructure
36 cameras operating recorded video surveillance
Biometric, keycard and pin based security systems
Smart Hands support for our remote customers
6Operations Support
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One of Indiana’s leading technology firms for over 20 years
Customer Service is our passion; NPS of 73
Managing 14,000+ network elements
Over 10,000+ environmental points under Environet watch
Successful resolution of 22,000+ cases annually
Handling 50,000+ customer calls annually
CUSTOMER SERVICE IS OUR PASSION
8. Network (2016)
Redundant Metaswitch in Chicago
Internet II peering from IUTC
3 Fiber paths in all buildings
International Telco Provider (Teliasonera – $100 Billion)
Additional 10Gb pairs to IU Bloomington
Additional Fiber in Downtown Indianapolis
Datacenter Facilities (2017)
Added 10,000 Sq.Ft. of datacenter space
Added 3 Megawatts of UPS
Added 336 Tons of Chiller Capacity
Added 500Kw of UPS in Capital Datacenter
Added additional Environet Monitoring
Upgraded Card Access System
LIGHTBOUND.COM
8Investing In Your Future
OUR UPGRADES BENEFIT YOU
9. WE SUPPORT INDIANA
50+ non-profit clients
State Government
Local Government
Higher Education
K-12
Churches
60+ Charity Sponsorships
TechPoint Founding Member
LIGHTBOUND.COM
9Community Involvement
13. LIGHTBOUND.COM
13What We Do
CORE DATACENTERS
Capital Datacenter
Rack Units/ Half Cabinet
Single/Multiple Cabinets
2 – 5 Kilowatts Capacity
Pillar Datacenter
Single Multiple Cabinets
Cages
5 – 35 Kilowatts Capacity
Common Characteristics
Core to IP Foundation
Redundant Power, Cooling, Fire Suppression
24 x 7 x 365 Network Operations Center (NOC)
Biometrics
SSAE-16 SOC 2 Certified
14.
15. LIGHTBOUND.COM
15What We Do
ADVANCED INTERNET
Strategic Benefits
Diversity
Scalability
Speed
Integrated to IP Foundation
Key Features with LightBound
Internet Ports from T-1 to 10Gb (Burstability)
10 Upstream Carriers (Redundancy)
Enterprise Monitoring Services
IPv4 or v6 space provided/available
LightBound’s Upstream BGP Peering Network
(10 Carriers x 10Gbps)
16. LIGHTBOUND.COM
16What We Do
Global DDoS Service
Strategic Benefits
Protection and Mitigation of Attacks
Backed by the Industry Leader
Carrier Agnostic
Integrated to IP Foundation
Key Features with LightBound
4 Global Scrubbing Centers
Over 2 Tbps of DDoS Mitigation
24x7x365 Enterprise Monitoring and Response
17.
18. CHOICE NETWORK
18What We Do
LIGHTBOUND.COM
Strategic Benefits
Flexibility and Scalability
Always Here – Always Local – Always On
Operational savings through Consolidation
Integrated to IP Foundation
Key Features with LightBound
Carrier Neutral Choices – Access to 19 On-Net Carriers
Availability of LightBound Fiber in many locations
Delivery of Voice and Data (Unique to LightBound)
Monitoring and Device Management Services
19. LIGHTBOUND FIBER
19What We Do
LIGHTBOUND.COM
Strategic Benefits
Flexibility and Scalability
Affordable
Establishes your IP Foundation
Key Features with LightBound
Scale from 100Mbps to 100Gbps
Availability in many locations
Delivery of Voice and Data (Unique to LightBound)
Monitoring and Device Management end-to-end
20.
21. LIGHTBOUND.COM
21What We Do
INTEGRATED VOICE
Strategic Benefits
Choices (Your PBX / Our PBX)
Always Here – Always Local – Always On
True Unified Voice and Data Consolidation = Savings
Integrated to IP Foundation
Key Features with LightBound
Voice Services (Local, Long Distance, 800 Service, International)
Enterprise Class V Metaswitch Platform
Delivery via SIP trunks or PRI
Your PBX & LightBound Dial Tone, or LightBound's Cloud PBX (Yours
or Ours)
Monitoring and Device Management Services
22. LIGHTBOUND.COM
22What We Do
Cloud Contact Center
Strategic Benefits
Integration helps save and make $
One “go to” company supporting you
True Unified Voice and Data Consolidation
Key Features with LightBound
Advanced Reporting and Dashboards
Workforce Scheduling
Advanced IVR
In Call Surveys
Call Recording
23. LIGHTBOUND.COM
24What We Do
LOCAL CLOUD
Benefits
Expandable/Burstable
Agile – More Resources in Minutes
Local/Accessible/Private
Integrated to IP Foundation
Key Features
On-Demand Virtual Datacenter Resources
Self-Service Portal
Enterprise-Class Infrastructure
Intelligent Storage and Backup
Firewall/Security
24. LIGHTBOUND.COM
25What We Do
DRaaS
Benefits
Hypervisor agnostic
Simplistic
Backed by 24x7x365 NOC
Industry-leading technology
Key Features
Replication to/from any site (yours or ours)
Recovery to/from any site (yours or ours)
Testing included
Roadmap included
Automates failover, failback, move and test
One pane of glass
Editor's Notes
Intro Slide
Change to your name
What I’d like to cover today is something that has been 20 years in the making.
It’s more than just re-branding, it’s all about our unique value to our clients.
It’s why companies choose LightBound and stay with LightBound for so long.
I’m going to show you Who we are, What we do, and What some of our clients are saying about us.
We provide the essential foundation for your business. Your infrastructure foundation. We call this your IP Foundation because everything in today’s world requires a solid foundation and most of it is based on IP (Internet Protocol).
However, we know that it’s more than speeds and feeds. It’s the fundamental foundation that connects your business to your clients…that’s why we’re committed to finding a better way. It’s all about the human touch and accessibility of client care after the sale.
For over 20 years, we’ve been the local, hometown, provider of choice…and we’ve become that by serving our clientele 24x7 so you can serve your clients 24x7.
So, let me share how far we’ve come….
We started in 1994 as a consumer dial-up Internet Service Provider.
The genesis our name started in early 2000 because of our Fiber Transport business. As you may or may not know, we have hundreds of miles of fiber throughout Marion County, the surrounding counties as well as fiber to Anderson and Bloomington. We serve many cities, towns, and school
districts.
In 2003, we built the Capital Datacenter, which is located in the same building as our NOC. At that time, we also provisioned multiple 10Gig upstream connections to two NAP’s, one in Chicago and one in Ashford, VA. This enabled us to provide redundant upstream connections and compete on a national scale in terms of raw bandwidth and carrier diversity.
In 2005, we entered the voice business and became a phone company – offering local and long distance services to local and national companies. Offering SIP services gave us a unique competitive differentiator in the local market. No other company of its kind, then or now, offers both – while at the same time being carrier diverse for network services.
In 2007, we entered the Cloud Business with a true Enterprise Class offering. We’re finding that this is a great way for companies to buy computing as a service instead of buying traditional servers as a capital expense.
Then in 2011, we built the biggest and best datacenter around to take the lead in the datacenter space.
All in all, we started as a residential services company, but have grown our ability to serve small, medium and enterprise corporate America.
I just wanted to share some of our success stories so you can hear what other clients are saying about our services.
I just wanted to share some of our success stories so you can hear what other clients are saying about our services.
You have a need for an extremely secure, reliable IP foundation upon which to grow and expand your business. You need a local partner that is concerned and responsible about keeping your systems up and running to support your critical business applications and environments. Whether you are hosting your servers in the Core DataCenters, connecting to the public world with Advanced Internet, connecting your private and secure world or centralizing all your networks with Choice Network, managing cloud infrastructure projects in the Local Cloud or connecting and communicating with Integrated Voice, LightBound IP Foundation is the cornerstone that provides you with benefits fundamental across all LightBound offerings. LightBound provides all the foundational elements for your IP needs so you can focus on your business. Integration across all products - The foremost benefit of leveraging any of the solutions offered through LightBound is the ability to interconnect all of the products together…easily.
None of this is possible without the Core and it starts with the Datacenter itself. We say “datacenters” because we have two.
We have two Datacenters. Capital and Pillar. You can see the comparison here,
At a High Level - LightBound Core DataCenters colocation facilities provide you with the control over your equipment and servers in our enterprise-class environment with redundant systems and advanced security. You determine how many racks you need today and know that you can easily expand your rack space as you need it over time. You also determine how much power you need from 2 to 30KW of redundant power to run your equipment. LightBound takes care of all the cooling needs and redundancy in the infrastructure to support that high-powered density. LightBound is also carrier-neutral so LightBound can supply and manage the carriers that are accessible within the LightBound IP Foundation or you can bring and manage your own.
Pillar DataCenter - In addition to the fundamental benefits of LightBound’s colocation features, if you have a requirement for high-power and the advanced cooling to support that higher power, LightBound Capstone DataCenter is considered the next generation in colocation facilities to meet those needs. LightBound Capstone DataCenter facility is light years ahead of other data centers and provides customers with much higher redundant power capacity and the ultimate cooling capabilities to handle and cool those massive amounts of power that customers require.
Monitoring and Management Services – LightBound can be your remote hands as needed to reboot your servers or check the physical status of your servers and hardware so you don’t have to make an extra trip just to press a switch. We can also provide tape rotation services for a fee so you don’t have to make that trip yet again just to move tapes. We provide you with an on-site staff at all times to monitor and manage the LightBound Core DataCenters. The LightBound Management Center provides you with extremely secure 24/7/365 monitoring and management services to alleviate your team of the routine yet fundamentally critical responsibilities to keep your systems always on and working for you. We have multiple staff members on site 24/7/365 to make sure we can respond immediately and handle your critical needs day or night. LightBound is constantly dedicated to monitoring your IP Foundation so you can focus on your business.
Beyond co-location, the other primary service that nearly every customer subscribes to is public Internet. LightBound flows more bandwidth to the public Internet than any company of it’s kind in Indiana.
Benefits –
Diversity - LightBound has unmatched diverse connectivity – 10 local and international carriers. NO ONE else in this market has that.
Speed - LightBound has unmatched fast bandwidth – 100Gb uplink to internet. NO ONE else in this market has that. LightBound advanced Internet is unique with the amount of bandwidth that it has to multiple carriers. LightBound has unmatched upstream connection speeds – 10Gb across EVERY carrier. All of our uplinks to carriers are at least 10Gb. All the bandwidth is symmetrical so your upload AND download speeds are the same.
Scalability - In the event that your infrastructure needs to grow, LightBound is ready to meet those needs. Your LightBound Advanced Internet can scale from 1Mb to 10Gb or more.
Integrated to IP Foundation - The LightBound IP Foundation solution with LightBound Advanced Internet provides redundant internet connectivity and because of our unmatched access and bandwidth, we bring you diversity, redundancy and “always on” reliability. Speed and Diversity
10 local and international carriers
Diverse upstream connectivity
Fully redundant and distributed across LightBound IP Foundation facilities
Each facility has its own fiber path leaving the building
Each facility has internet access and connectivity to each other
Full BGP tables can be provided to customers
10Gb upstream connections
Across all carriers
Symmetrical upload and download speeds
Low to high speed – 1Mb to 10Gb connections
100Gb internet bandwidth
High-capacity network infrastructure
The Core DataCenters facilities are not dependent on each other for internet connectivity. Since the carrier access is distributed across these buildings, if a connection is lost or the building is lost, there is still access to five carriers in the other facility. Unique to this market is the access to 10 diverse carriers.
Monitoring and Management Services
24/7/365 Monitoring
The LightBound Management Center provides you with extremely secure 24/7/365 monitoring and management services to alleviate your team of the routine yet fundamentally critical responsibilities to keep your systems always on and working for you. We have multiple staff members on site 24/7/365 to make sure we can respond immediately and handle your critical needs day or night. LightBound is constantly dedicated to monitoring your IP Foundation so you can focus on your business.
Benefits –
Diversity - LightBound has unmatched diverse connectivity – 10 local and international carriers. NO ONE else in this market has that.
Speed - LightBound has unmatched fast bandwidth – 100Gb uplink to internet. NO ONE else in this market has that. LightBound advanced Internet is unique with the amount of bandwidth that it has to multiple carriers. LightBound has unmatched upstream connection speeds – 10Gb across EVERY carrier. All of our uplinks to carriers are at least 10Gb. All the bandwidth is symmetrical so your upload AND download speeds are the same.
Scalability - In the event that your infrastructure needs to grow, LightBound is ready to meet those needs. Your LightBound Advanced Internet can scale from 1Mb to 10Gb or more.
Integrated to IP Foundation - The LightBound IP Foundation solution with LightBound Advanced Internet provides redundant internet connectivity and because of our unmatched access and bandwidth, we bring you diversity, redundancy and “always on” reliability. Speed and Diversity
10 local and international carriers
Diverse upstream connectivity
Fully redundant and distributed across LightBound IP Foundation facilities
Each facility has its own fiber path leaving the building
Each facility has internet access and connectivity to each other
Full BGP tables can be provided to customers
10Gb upstream connections
Across all carriers
Symmetrical upload and download speeds
Low to high speed – 1Mb to 10Gb connections
100Gb internet bandwidth
High-capacity network infrastructure
The Core DataCenters facilities are not dependent on each other for internet connectivity. Since the carrier access is distributed across these buildings, if a connection is lost or the building is lost, there is still access to five carriers in the other facility. Unique to this market is the access to 10 diverse carriers.
Monitoring and Management Services
24/7/365 Monitoring
The LightBound Management Center provides you with extremely secure 24/7/365 monitoring and management services to alleviate your team of the routine yet fundamentally critical responsibilities to keep your systems always on and working for you. We have multiple staff members on site 24/7/365 to make sure we can respond immediately and handle your critical needs day or night. LightBound is constantly dedicated to monitoring your IP Foundation so you can focus on your business.
In terms of network, above all, we provide choices. More choices than any other co-location provider.
Benefits - Choices - You have choices when it comes to addressing your networking needs. You have the options to determine what type of circuit and bandwidth meets your organizational needs. LightBound also has unmatched access to carriers to let LightBound manage that carrier diversity for you.
Always Here – Always Local - LightBound Management Center is always here monitoring, managing, troubleshooting and fixing your circuits end to end. LightBound is always here. When you have multiple locations you need to choose LightBound as your hub and centralize your networks in the LightBound IP Foundation so you eliminate the headaches and challenges with managing those additions or moves across your corporate network.
Operational Savings - LightBound removes the operational pain of spending typically too much time on the phone today troubleshooting with your current telecommunications provider. LightBound removes the operational effort and cost of moving or adding offices. You have one central place to connect all your offices and eliminate the headaches of any future additions or moves.
DataCenters or connecting to the public world through LightBound Advanced Internet or providing complete voice services through LightBound Integrated Voice, you have the flexibility of working with a total solution provider for your IP needs.
Scalable and Flexible Circuits
Carrier diversity with 18 carriers
Wide-ranging network delivery options from traditional and fiber to next-generation
Flexible connection types including point-to-point and multipoint
Scalable circuit types from T1 – OC192, Ethernet, LightBound Fiber
Scalable bandwidth from low to high speed - 1.5Mb to 10Gb connections
High-capacity network infrastructure
Monitoring and Management Services
We monitor and manage the physical devices on both ends of your circuit so if there is a problem, we can handle it. The LightBound Management Center provides you with extremely secure 24/7/365 monitoring and management services to alleviate your team of the routine yet fundamentally critical responsibilities to keep your systems always on and working for you. We have multiple staff members on site 24/7/365 to make sure we can respond immediately and handle your critical needs day or night. LightBound is constantly dedicated to monitoring your IP Foundation so you can focus on your business.
Benefits - Choices - You have choices when it comes to addressing your networking needs. You have the options to determine what type of circuit and bandwidth meets your organizational needs. LightBound also has unmatched access to carriers to let LightBound manage that carrier diversity for you.
Always Here – Always Local - LightBound Management Center is always here monitoring, managing, troubleshooting and fixing your circuits end to end. LightBound is always here. When you have multiple locations you need to choose LightBound as your hub and centralize your networks in the LightBound IP Foundation so you eliminate the headaches and challenges with managing those additions or moves across your corporate network.
Operational Savings - LightBound removes the operational pain of spending typically too much time on the phone today troubleshooting with your current telecommunications provider. LightBound removes the operational effort and cost of moving or adding offices. You have one central place to connect all your offices and eliminate the headaches of any future additions or moves.
DataCenters or connecting to the public world through LightBound Advanced Internet or providing complete voice services through LightBound Integrated Voice, you have the flexibility of working with a total solution provider for your IP needs.
Scalable and Flexible Circuits
Carrier diversity with 18 carriers
Wide-ranging network delivery options from traditional and fiber to next-generation
Flexible connection types including point-to-point and multipoint
Scalable circuit types from T1 – OC192, Ethernet, LightBound Fiber
Scalable bandwidth from low to high speed - 1.5Mb to 10Gb connections
High-capacity network infrastructure
Monitoring and Management Services
We monitor and manage the physical devices on both ends of your circuit so if there is a problem, we can handle it. The LightBound Management Center provides you with extremely secure 24/7/365 monitoring and management services to alleviate your team of the routine yet fundamentally critical responsibilities to keep your systems always on and working for you. We have multiple staff members on site 24/7/365 to make sure we can respond immediately and handle your critical needs day or night. LightBound is constantly dedicated to monitoring your IP Foundation so you can focus on your business.
Next is Integrated Voice. With the convergence of data and voice traffic, LightBound is the only co-location provider of offering truly integrated local and long distance voice services to it’s co-location and Internet clients.
Voice Services
Dial-tone, Local, Long Distance, 911, 800, DID (Direct Inward Dialing), Call Routing
LightBound is a CLEC, regulated phone company registered with local and state governments to provide phone services.
PBX Systems Options
Dedicated PBX On-Premise
Dedicated PBX in LightBound IP Foundation
Virtualized PBX in LightBound IP Foundation
LightBound provides the “dial tone” services and the PBX systems to provide you with the additional goodness and features including conference calling, extensions, call forwarding, etc. LightBound’s PBX options along with LightBound’s voice services can be a one stop shop for all your business communication needs. The PBX solution that you choose provides you with options on where and how it is managed. You may choose to house the PBX at your location or in the LightBound IP Foundation or you may choose to take advantage of a virtualized PBX also managed in the LightBound IP Foundation which completely eliminates the need to purchase and maintain the PBX equipment. The virtualized PBX gives you another on-ramp to provide VoIP services to your business.
Monitoring and Management Services
The LightBound Management Center provides you with extremely secure 24/7/365 monitoring and management services to alleviate your team of the routine yet fundamentally critical responsibilities to keep your systems always on and working for you. We have multiple staff members on site 24/7/365 to make sure we can respond immediately and handle your critical needs day or night. LightBound is constantly dedicated to monitoring your IP Foundation so you can focus on your business.
Voice Services
Dial-tone, Local, Long Distance, 911, 800, DID (Direct Inward Dialing), Call Routing
LightBound is a CLEC, regulated phone company registered with local and state governments to provide phone services.
PBX Systems Options
Dedicated PBX On-Premise
Dedicated PBX in LightBound IP Foundation
Virtualized PBX in LightBound IP Foundation
LightBound provides the “dial tone” services and the PBX systems to provide you with the additional goodness and features including conference calling, extensions, call forwarding, etc. LightBound’s PBX options along with LightBound’s voice services can be a one stop shop for all your business communication needs. The PBX solution that you choose provides you with options on where and how it is managed. You may choose to house the PBX at your location or in the LightBound IP Foundation or you may choose to take advantage of a virtualized PBX also managed in the LightBound IP Foundation which completely eliminates the need to purchase and maintain the PBX equipment. The virtualized PBX gives you another on-ramp to provide VoIP services to your business.
Monitoring and Management Services
The LightBound Management Center provides you with extremely secure 24/7/365 monitoring and management services to alleviate your team of the routine yet fundamentally critical responsibilities to keep your systems always on and working for you. We have multiple staff members on site 24/7/365 to make sure we can respond immediately and handle your critical needs day or night. LightBound is constantly dedicated to monitoring your IP Foundation so you can focus on your business.
And finally, our Cloud Services. We say “Local Cloud” because you can always come down and see it, touch it and feel it. It’s here, and you always know where your data lives.
BENEFITS - Expandable - You have just-in-time expandable capacity and scalable access to computing storage and resources. Scale up or down computing resources as you need them to meet your changing demand for IT systems.
Agile - You can quickly, easily and affordably set-up your environment. All the infrastructure is provided by LightBound. You can provision and manage your resources including Virtual Data Center resources and Virtual Machines.
Local/Accessible - LightBound is your LOCAL cloud provider. Your enterprise-class cloud infrastructure is local to Indianapolis. It is local, accessible and secure in our LightBound Core DataCenters.
Cost-aligned – Pay only for the resources you are using.
Key Features
Virtual Data Center Resources - LightBound provides a pool of cloud infrastructure resources including virtual computing power, memory, storage and bandwidth. This virtual data center falls within the definition of IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) allowing you to spin-up and access cloud infrastructure from LightBound.
Self-Service Portal (UI) - VMware’s vCloud Director, a secure, dedicated, tailored self-service portal, gives you access to your resources and is where each individual customer is provisioned a dedicated virtual datacenter. You have the ability to self-provision VMs and administer your virtual data center.
Enterprise-Class Infrastructure - The LightBound Local Cloud solution was built and designed leveraging industry-leading technology. While you manage the applications in your virtual data centers, LightBound manages the entire backend hardware, storage and network infrastructure.
Intelligent Storage and Backup - The LightBound Local Cloud solution also includes enterprise-level, de-duplicated, synchronous backups.
Firewall/Security - LightBound manages the dedicated external firewall including the physical hardware and the firewall rules for you.
Monitoring and Management Services
The LightBound Management Center provides you with extremely secure 24/7/365 monitoring and management services to alleviate your team of the routine yet fundamentally critical responsibilities to keep your systems always on and working for you. We have multiple staff members on site 24/7/365 to make sure we can respond immediately and handle your critical needs day or night. LightBound is constantly dedicated to monitoring your IP Foundation so you can focus on your business.
BENEFITS - Expandable - You have just-in-time expandable capacity and scalable access to computing storage and resources. Scale up or down computing resources as you need them to meet your changing demand for IT systems.
Agile - You can quickly, easily and affordably set-up your environment. All the infrastructure is provided by LightBound. You can provision and manage your resources including Virtual Data Center resources and Virtual Machines.
Local/Accessible - LightBound is your LOCAL cloud provider. Your enterprise-class cloud infrastructure is local to Indianapolis. It is local, accessible and secure in our LightBound Core DataCenters.
Cost-aligned – Pay only for the resources you are using.
Key Features
Virtual Data Center Resources - LightBound provides a pool of cloud infrastructure resources including virtual computing power, memory, storage and bandwidth. This virtual data center falls within the definition of IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) allowing you to spin-up and access cloud infrastructure from LightBound.
Self-Service Portal (UI) - VMware’s vCloud Director, a secure, dedicated, tailored self-service portal, gives you access to your resources and is where each individual customer is provisioned a dedicated virtual datacenter. You have the ability to self-provision VMs and administer your virtual data center.
Enterprise-Class Infrastructure - The LightBound Local Cloud solution was built and designed leveraging industry-leading technology. While you manage the applications in your virtual data centers, LightBound manages the entire backend hardware, storage and network infrastructure.
Intelligent Storage and Backup - The LightBound Local Cloud solution also includes enterprise-level, de-duplicated, synchronous backups.
Firewall/Security - LightBound manages the dedicated external firewall including the physical hardware and the firewall rules for you.
Monitoring and Management Services
The LightBound Management Center provides you with extremely secure 24/7/365 monitoring and management services to alleviate your team of the routine yet fundamentally critical responsibilities to keep your systems always on and working for you. We have multiple staff members on site 24/7/365 to make sure we can respond immediately and handle your critical needs day or night. LightBound is constantly dedicated to monitoring your IP Foundation so you can focus on your business.