“It’s quite dependable and we look forward to expanding our use of Metronet [ChoiceLight] to more of our facilities is further deployed in the region.“

Banks are big number crunchers, which means they have buckets of data to send and receive on a constant basis. The high speed and dependability of ChoiceLight makes that transmission seamless in real time for one prominent South Bend area bank, but that’s just one of the reasons why leaders there decided to sign on with ChoiceLight. 

"The unlimited bandwidth also gives us the ability to run some voice and video over the fiber backbone," says an executive with the bank. "We also use Metronet [ChoiceLight] as our primary means of communication between those three major facilities now, and it’s worked just great," he says.

His bank has been so pleased with ChoiceLight that it plans to use it at more of its facilities in the St. Joe Valley area in the near future. The banker says it has provided "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 with frame relay."