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After some debate, board OKs Adams connecting to Metronet

Next school year, Adams High School students and staff members will have access to 10 times more bandwidth for their Web-based activities at school.

Telecommunications Facilities Manager position

Metronet News Fall 2012 #3

Late December, 2012 -- This is the third and final newsletter in a series that shares what Metronet has learned to help subscribers prevent interruptions, react to interruptions and restore service. The series concludes with a discussion of options for backup systems.

Metronet News Fall 2012 #2

December 2012 -- This is the second in a series of newsletter articles that share what Metronet has learned to help subscribers prevent interruptions, react to interruptions and restore service.

Metronet News Fall 2012

November 2012 -- This is the first in a series of newsletter articles that share what Metronet has learned to help subscribers prevent interruptions, react to interruptions and restore service.

The Bottom Line: Metronet will pay dividends

November 4, 2012 -- Metronet is already paying dividends to the community. But it holds even more promise.

Major Metronet Expansion Approved in Mishawaka

October 26, 2012 -- Mishawaka has a new economic development asset after an agreement with St. Joe Valley Metronet opens up the city's fiber optic network to commercial use.

County poised for tech clusters

April 29, 2012 -- This is part 2 of a commentary by Mary Jan Hedman, executive director of St. Joe Valley Metronet

Key facet of future is here today

April 22, 2012 -- A commentary by Mary Jan Hedman, executive director of St. Joe Valley Metronet

Tech Leader to Present at National Conference

April 9, 2012 -- Mary Jan Hedman, executive director of St. Joe Valley Metronet, is a featured speaker for the 2012 Broadband Communities Summit April 24 through 26 in Dallas, Texas.

Office joins retail block

January 15, 2012 -- Mary Jan Hedman, executive director of the St. Joe Valley Metronet, is anxious for the visibility the new space at 121 S. Michigan Street offers among mainly restaurants and retailers.

Fiber-Connected Data Centers Drive Economic Development

January 6, 2012 -- An accidental data center operator in Indiana has attracted new residents and triggered the creation of a new business that is expected to create several hundred jobs.

Mossberg Stays Current with Metronet Zing

October 17, 2011 -- Mossberg & Co. uses the St. Joe Valley Metronet to provide quick, cutting-edge printing capabilities.

Video tells how Metronet Zings St. Joseph County to forefront of health care...

July 6,2011 – St. Joe Valley Metronet announces the release of a new online video that highlights how high-speed connectivity enables the local health care network to dramatically improve patient care.

Wireless access explored

July 8, 2011 -- Proponents hope effort could promote job growth.

They want to be like us: Decorah, Iowa is

June 3, 2011 - Decorah, Iowa uses Metronet video to explain dark fiber to its community.

Metronet: Business at the speed of light

May 19, 2011 - Metronet: Business at the speed of light.

South Bend's Future as an IT hub

April 7, 2011 — An interview with Ron Kraemer, CIO of Notre Dame

Company aims to position area in cloud computing

March 14, 2011 — Data Realty expects to attract local jobs by providing economical opportunities for cloud computing.

It's first private business to locate in technology park.

February 10, 2011 — Data Realty LLC, a startup data storage firm based at Innovation Park at Notre Dame, will be the first private business to build and launch operations in Ignition Park, the city's technology park.

High-Tech Data Center to Locate in Ignition Park

February 9, 2011 — Data Realty LLC says it plans to break ground this spring on a data center in South Bend's Ignition Park. The startup, based at Innovation Park at Notre Dame, will invest more than $20 million in its next-generation operation.

The Metronet Advantage

January 28, 2011 — Everyone in the South Bend area ought to be encouraged by the expansion of the St. Joe Valley Metronet to serve small- and medium-sized businesses.

Metronet expands service

January 18, 2011 — Smaller businesses now able to tap into fast Internet connection.

Bountiful bandwidth now available to small and midsized businesses

December 20, 2010 — Bountiful bandwidth now available to small and midsized businesses

The Resurgence of Municipal Fiber

July 22, 2010 - Since BBP’s first census of municipal fiber-to-the-premises systems two years ago, the number of municipal systems has risen to 88 from 66, an increase of 25 percent, in spite of Provo, Utah, and Newnan, Ga., privatizing their networks in the interim.

South Bend’s Game Changer by Mayor Stephen Luecke

June 17, 2010 - Article originally appeared in the Chicago Tribune. Spring in South Bend, Ind., is all about renewal.

St. Joe Valley Metronet launches ZING brand name and website

June 7, 2010 - The new brand name, Zing, projects a fresh identity for Metronet’s high-speed connectivity service, while the website offers enhanced content and features.

Information Security Seminar Presents Solutions to Cyberspace Security

May 18, 2010 - South Bend, Ind. - Rapid changes in information technology have created an ever-growing list of new security risks for organizations working with sensitive data, according to several industry experts who spoke recently at a seminar in downtown South Bend.

Greater South Bend Area Will Court Google

March 9, 2010 - South Bend, IN - The latest "Google search" has attracted the attention of scores of medium sized communities across the U.S., including the South Bend area. Google is searching for a place where it can offer ultra high-speed broadband access to a minimum of 50-thousand homes.

South Bend Recent Achievements

January 19, 2010 - SOUTH BEND, Ind. - South Bend saw major advances during 2009 in key initiatives that promise to make the city a bright spot in the economic picture. Heading the list of the year’s achievements was the opening in October 2009 of Innovation Park at Notre Dame, the initial phase of Indiana’s first two-site State-Certified Technology Park.

County Comes Out Ahead

January 5, 2010 - Marshall County weathered the 2009 economic crisis with $5.2 million left to the start the new year. That's a little over $1.6 million more than the county budget started with at the beginning of the year.

No Pie in the sky

Last week, A. J. Walters and Grant Neely of Information By Design compared cloud computing with century-old telephone service - subscription-based with additional services available for additional fees, off-site, serving a host of users from a shared application.

National dark fiber network coming through South Bend, Ind.

October 26, 2009 - It's not just the St. Joe Valley Metronet that's big on the high-speed, dark-fiber optic technology that permits it to transmit massive amounts of data in the blink of an eye. Soon, a company called Allied Fiber will connect the coasts via a similar system, which allows multiple carriers to "light," or turn on, the dark fiber and control the waves of light on which the information travels.

Lower cost, Less impact

July 1, 2009 - On a bitingly cold winter morning, brutal winds and subzero temperatures batter the exterior of the Desert Dome at Potawatomi Park in South Bend, transforming the world outside into a wasteland of snow and ice.

But safe inside the glass and steel structure, the city’s collection of exotic desert plants basks in a flow of steady heat generated by a bank of high-performance computer servers located nearby. Connected by a high-speed network of dark fiber known as the St. Joe Valley Metronet (SJVM), the servers provide computational power and data for computers some five miles across town on the Notre Dame campus.

Project Future News Flash - Data centers can save millions in northern Indiana

June 3, 2009 - St. Joseph County in Northern Indiana is primed to become a high-tech hub, thanks to a change in state law that allows for personal property tax exemptions on data center equipment.

Metronet's Lightning - Fast Data Transmission Spurs Economic Growth

April 13, 2009 - If the rapidly growing GramTel data services company is any sort of an indicator - and South Bend civic officials hope it is - the St. Joe Valley Metronet will serve as an economic stimulator and attract high-tech firms for years to come by providing virtually unlimited bandwidth while saving them money.

WNIT Begins Journey to Future in Downtown Home

November 9, 2008 - Expanded space. A community room. The Metronet. These features are music to Mary Pruess’ ears as WNIT Television prepares to move into its new South Bend home -- the downtown WSBT building -- after WSBT moves into its new building in Mishawaka.

Metronet Expansion to Mishawaka

August 25, 2008 - South Bend, IN - Jim Zeoli knows firsthand that jumping on the Metronet bandwagon can be a positive move for area companies. The vice president and chief technology officer of Press Ganey Associates -- which got on the Metronet in late 2006 with two of its sites and finished connecting all of its seven sites in South Bend this spring -- considers the performance, capacity and cost of the fiber optic cable a win-win for the company.

Updating the Information Superhighway

June 21, 2008 - A grape compared to a basketball. That’s how Pat Ames, vice chancellor for Information Technologies at Indiana University South Bend, described the difference in Internet bandwidth following the school’s connection to the "I-Light" network about a year and a half ago.

Fiber Optic Paradise - Building Indiana News Magazine

June 1, 2008 - The state of Indiana is developing plans for a revolutionary information highway, and interestingly enough it would run alongside one of Indiana’s busiest highways.

The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) is spearheading an initiative to build a fiber optic line along the Indiana Toll Road that would vastly improve communication connectivity, roadway safety, and increase the possibility for economic development. What’s unique about the technology infrastructure is that it would be funded through private dollars and not at the taxpayers’ expense.

Metronet Enables St. Joseph County to Become National Economic

May 15, 2006 - South Bend in north-central Indiana is poised on the forefront of a technological revolution that positions it as an area ripe for economic development as a leading technology center of the United States.

South Bend Metronet shows that fiber is good for you!

October 1, 2005 - Inside INDIANA Business Magazine - by Stephen Luecke, Mayor of South Bend

Transportation systems have always been critical to South Bend’s vitality. From early days when traders and settlers used the St. Joseph River to move goods, through the heyday of railroads and the interstate highway system, to our multi-modal airport with bus and South Shore connections, we rely on good transportation for commerce, jobs and private investment.

Why a Metronet?

February 1, 2005 - In 2001 Project Future and the St. Joseph County Chamber of Commerce, recognizing potential economic development opportunity in the emerging technology-driven "new economy", appointed a Technology Task Force to assess how well St. Joseph County is positioned to catch the "tech wave" and recommend strategies for assuring the area’s technology competitiveness.