Benefits to Businesses

Businesses in the St. Joseph County region are benefitting from Metronet for a variety of reasons, including its redundancy, unlimited bandwidth, fast-speed and dependability.

One banking systems manager said his company uses Metronet to tie together three major offices in South Bend that have a lot of back room and sales type positions, "so it's not being used for just retail operations.

"We use the Metronet as our primary means of communication between those three facilities.It's great because it gives us the ability to run voice, data and video over the fiber backbone," he says.This allows a competitive edge via cheaper phone bills, a true data back-up system and sophisticated videoconferencing.

During the time his company has been a subscriber to Metronet, the banker said he has had "very high availability and it's done a great job of serving those three offices to our main processing center.We've had more bandwidth and more throughput than what we were doing in the past."

"It's quite dependable and we look forward to expanding our use of Metronet to more of our facilities in the St. Joe Valley area in the future," he said.