Tech Talk

For most people, Facebook is a simple website they visit every day. However, behind the scenes, there is much more going on to keep the site operating smoothly and a large part of that infrastructure is coming to Iowa. As you most likely heard recently, Facebook confirmed its plans to build a massive data center in [...]

Across the country, rural fiber builds are helping with economic development. Today’s blog post highlights the work that one Independent Telecommunications Company has done to further business growth in Southeast Iowa. “Businesses in our area are starved for faster and more reliable Internet connections. Danville Telecom saw a need. The economic growth potential of a [...]

Watch our second in a series of INS Tech Talk videos about the ability of broadband to spur economic development in a community. To view the first video in the series, click here.

Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) is the modern implementation of a packet switching network, capable of carrying converged traffic including Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), video, and data. As business networks increasingly carry this mix of traffic, MPLS has emerged as the most efficient way to meet the special delivery needs of each class of data. [...]

Today’s Tech Talk blog features a guest post from a member of the INS Family of Companies — Steve Simpson with Alliance Technologies. Save the date. Put it on your calendar. Tell your colleagues.  Alliance Technologies brings techJAM 2013 to Hy-Vee Hall in Des Moines on April 25! Here are Three Things to Know About techJAM 2013: 1)  Keynote by Anthony [...]