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Community Fiber Capabilities
There are at least 5 Inter Exchange Carriers (AT&T, Verizon, Ameritech, Sprint, and WorldCom) with fiber into the Lafayette area. Companies located at the Purdue Research Park have access to Purdue University’s private fiber network. In addition, the following companies provide communications and Internet capabilities to local businesses:

Verizon
A Fortune 10 company, Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) is one of the world's leading providers of communications services. Verizon companies are the largest providers of wireline and wireless communications in the United States, with a global presence extends to the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Pacific. For more information on Verizon, visit www.verizon.com.

Verizon has diverse fiber rings around the city of Lafayette that serve and protect local businesses from major communication disruption cause by fiber outages. The company offers broadband services from T1s up to DS3 levels with various outside plant copper and fiber technologies to the Greater Lafayette area. Their services include:

Internet Access
ATM Technology- Featuring transfer rates ranging from 384 Kbps to 45 Mbps.
DSL Connections- There are multiple download/upload speed packages available:
768K/128K, 1.5M/128K, 384K/384K,1.5M/384K and 768K/768K.
Frame Relay- Dedicated Internet connectivity at speeds up to 128 Kbps to 1.5 Mbps.
Service up-time guarantee offers 99.9% availability.
ISDN LAN- Connect up to 13 users with access to the Internet over your LAN at speeds up to 128 Kbps.
Private Line- Dependable and dedicated point-to-point communication at transport speeds ranging from 1.5 Mbps to 155 Mbps.

Web Site Services
Domain registration, design, promotion and hosting services available.
On-Site Technical Support:
Verizon has over 18 highly experienced PBX/Key System technicians in the Lafayette area that provide
24 by 7 coverage and support to large/small business customers.

Wintek
The company was formed in 1973 by engineers and computer scientists from Purdue University with the goal of making the then-emerging microprocessor technology available to industry. In 1984, we introduced the first of our Computer-Aided-Design software products. Wintek began offering Internet services in 1994. For more information, visit www.wintek.com.

Their services include:

Internet Access
T-1 lines
DSL Connections- There are multiple download/upload speed packages available:
768K/128K, 1.5M/
128K, 384K/384K,1.5M/384K and 768K/768K.
ISDN- Connects a LAN with access to the Internet with speeds up to 128 Kbps (512 Kbps with compression). Dedicated ISDN lines for mission-critical or high-volume applications, including local-area networks.
Frame Relay- Dedicated Internet connectivity at speeds up to 128 Kbps to 1.5 Mbps.

Web Site Services
They also offer web hosting, web formatting, and server colocation services.



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