Tech Talk

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. [...]

Iowa Network Services has redesigned and launched a new netINS.net website. The fresh new look and feel is customer-focused, provides more useful residential support information, and incorporates news feeds. In fact, one of the first things users notice is a more visual presentation of Top News articles in the left rail. Top business, sports, and general [...]

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 [...]

Best practices for running small, growing businesses are changing. Many of the traditional business models — ideas and methods that made perfect sense for years — have fallen away with the rise of Internet business, remote working arrangements, globalization, and other 21st-century trends. This is particularly evident in the IT area. That’s because, as small [...]