Customer: Moravian College
First for PenTeleData, there was Moravian College & Theological Seminary in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. In 1996, Moravian became the first graduate institution customer to receive dedicated, commercial Internet and networking services from Pennsylvania's largest Internet and networking services company, PenTeleData.

So impressed with the level of service reliably delivered to Moravian by PenTeleData, the school tripled the size of the bandwidth to the Internet, thus encouraging the institution to move forward with development -- thanks to PenTeleData.

"Moravian College is fortunate to partner with a company like PenTeleData to provide dependable high-speed Internet service for our students, faculty, and staff," said Ervin J. Rokke, president, Moravian College. "Since 1996, PenTeleData has provided our College and Seminary with creative network solutions, while maintaining outstanding customer service. We can recommend PenTeleData with confidence to institutions of higher education throughout Pennsylvania."

Ron Helmuth, Director of Moravian's Center for Information Technology, concurs.

"Moravian appreciates PenTeleData's favorable pricing and PenTeleData has given us great service," he said.

"In the three years that I've been here, we've had no problems," added Helmuth. "Access to the Internet has been affected more by electrical outages than our Internet connection."

Helmuth compares Moravian's Internet connection to a commodity on one level and a utility on another.

"You want your Internet to be just as reliable and ever-present as water and electrical services," he said.

"Buying Internet from PenTeleData, we've experienced our Internet connection as commodity and utility, absolutely. You want it to be there always. And you never want to pay attention to it."

"With PenTeleData as our ISP we've done other cool things, too," Helmuth said. "We use VPN protocols that serve off-campus employees. We allow these home workers access back to the campus without compromising our Internet security - that's been very helpful to our employees who work off-site and need to access the campus network," he said.

Moravian's Network Engineer Jim Beers agrees. "One thing that I can say about our PenTeleData Internet service is that it's rock-solid," Beers said. "We never have down time."

"PenTeleData's incident response is lickety-split," he said. "There isn't a blame game and that's nice to see. Any problems that we have are usually our own, but PenTeleData helps solve the problem or issue without a hassle."

In-house specialists, special funding experts and sponsorships of seminar series underscore PenTeleData's pledge to the educational sector. One of the most attractive solutions for institutes of higher learning throughout Pennsylvania, PenTeleData's proprietary EtherPoint delivers dedicated Internet service from 1 Megabit to 100 Megabits, across campus or across the state, depending upon need -- only by PenTeleData.

PenTeleData is greater Pennsylvania's leading Internet service company and networking solutions provider.

Offering a broad range of services and tailor-made applications that suit the residential customer and the corporate community and its culture, PenTeleData dependably delivers reliable Internet access and secure data transport routes across one of the largest privately-owned high-speed fiberoptic ATM network infrastructure in the United States.

Headquartered in eastern Pennsylvania, PenTeleData draws its resources from surrounding communities to provide its tens of thousands of users in the tri-state area with nationally-awarded and widely admired quality customer service. Whether sensitive data gets sent across a wire, across the street, across the state or across the country, Pennsylvanians entrust their digital communications to the respected Internet industry professionals: Depend on PenTeleData for Smarter Business Solutions.