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Onlight Network Integration, Consulting and Professional Services and Solutions - Reliable, Cost Effective, Scalable, Performance-Oriented, Tailored, Secure

Our methodology – taking a proactive approach to network consulting, design and implementation allows us to return control to network managers. We help them understand every aspect of their network. Common areas include:

• Professional Services consulting and on-site design and implementation
• Firewall design and implementation
• Internet and WAN architecture design and implementation
• VPN; both site-to-site and point to multi-point (road warrior) style
• Router and CSU configuration, installation and support
• E-mail/file/print/database/web server evaluation, design, installation and support
• Voice and data integration; digital PBX and VoIP solutions
• Network security consulting services (policy design, assessment and Internet acceptable use policy management)
• Inter-networking (LAN switching, cabling and VLAN design and set-up)
• Network base-lining and reporting
• Network monitoring and management (Managed Services)
• Temporary IT staff augmentation

Onlight has design and implementation experience in the complex world of IP networking and Open Systems engineering. With over 20 years of combined experience there is no network the Team cannot build or improve on.

Onlight uses Open Source software solutions whenever possible to assist in cost reduction and realizing added potential.

Onlight's technical staff has been providing Open Source support services since long before the company's conception. Our current team has over 40 years of combined experience in developing solutions for: email clients, servers and filters; Usenet servers and clients; compilers; network monitoring; infrastructure; IP switching; VPN; etc. – and we built our own infrastructure using Unix, Linux, FreeBSD and other Open Source software.

Our engineers have contributed to the development of some of the most popular Open Source software including LDAP and email programs.

In fast developing technologies like Linux and Open Source, experience counts. Depth of experience is precisely what Onlight provides.

If you are considering an alternative supplier of support, remember to ask them how much of their own business runs on Open Source, and how long they've depended on it for their livelihoods. Every application in our company has run on Open Source software since inception.

Until recently, the majority of Onlight's Open Source software support focused on applications or systems that we had a hand in designing, writing, building, installing or integrating, i.e. a relatively specialized, hand-crafted, service.

In response to customer demand and to the increasing maturity of the Open Source software market, we are now offering Linux and Open Source software support in simpler, packaged, formats. These are included in our suite of Intersweep solutions.

Why Open Source Software?

The use of Open Source Software (OSS) provides for highly reliable, low-cost, easy and flexible maintenance, security and transparency. Open Source means that the source code (the human readable programs which are later made machine readable) is available to the world at large. Open Source also means that the software may be reproduced, modified, etc. by the user.

OSS is typically written and maintained by large numbers of programmers, some paid (by schools, government, industry group, or business) some volunteer, all over the world. The large population of computer users and programmers using OSS is reflected in the rapid and ready availability of patches or fixes in event a security or other flaw or bug is uncovered. In addition, since the source code to the software is available for perusal, it is much easier for potential flaws to be uncovered and fixed before they are actually exploited by hackers (malevolent or not).