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JOHNSON COUNTY FIBER
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PARTNERS IN CONNECTING THE
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Writer / Alaina Sullivan . Photos provided
Local information technology service and
support can be hard to find. Finding quality
service can be tricky, but finding quality
locally outsourced services can be near
impossible. Johnson County Fiber Network
was created with this in mind and provides
top-notch information technology products
and services to businesses, schools and
organizations in Johnson County.
WHO IS JCFN?
Johnson County Fiber Network was created
out of a partnership between Johnson
County REMC and NineStar Connect. In
late 2012, Johnson County REMC
(jcremc.com) completed installation of
115 miles of fiber optic cable spanning
their entire distribution network. With this
installation complete and with the potential
to reach their entire membership base,
Johnson County REMC was ready to take
the next step of offering fiber to the premises.
NineStar Connect holds over 120 years of
experience in the telecommunications and
fiber industries and offered a large number
of highly trained staff, experts in technical
and customer support services.
“We were not experts, so for this, we needed
a business partner – one that not only had
the technical and logistical background for
the job but who also had an understanding of
the cooperative business model,” said Chet
Aubin, CEO of Johnson County REMC.
Therefore, Johnson County REMC joined
forces with NineStar Connect to become
Johnson County Fiber Network, LLC.
To JCFN, it is all about being local. “We
do not have stockholders in other states
or countries, nor are our board’s actions
dictated by some outside influence,” said
Aubin. “Everything is local and is akin to the
saying that ’a rising tide lifts all ships.’”
JCFN SERVICES
Johnson County Fiber Network’s services
include broadband services (up to 1Gig
and beyond), Voice Services, Hosted
Phone Solutions, Outsourced Information
Technology Solutions. Data solutions
Taxman Brewing in
Bargersville is another
business using JCFN
fiber service
NineStar Connect’s outsourced information
technology services include installation and
reinstallation of operating systems, server
and network setup, wireless networking,
data migration and backup services,
hardware upgrades, diagnostics and repairs,
new computer setups, virus and spyware
removal and more.
“Most providers cannot provide this type of
speed both up and down,” said Aubin.
The company decided 10 days before our
opening date that they couldn’t provide
the requested services. I turned to Johnson
“We have over 140 miles of fiber optics
County Fiber Network. They were able to
installed throughout Johnson County,”
install fiber and deliver the critical Internet/
he stated. “Existing customers are in
VPN services needed to support our network
areas including Greenwood, Bargersville,
and point of sales systems at the new facility.
Trafalgar, Franklin, Nineveh and Whiteland.” Their quick response was a lifesaver!”
Indiana FFA Leadership Center, located
south of Trafalgar, used to suffer from poor
Internet access. Joe Park, Executive Director,
WHY JCFN?
said, “When we were looking to upgrade
“JCFN is a Central Indiana company,”
our Internet access, our current provider
Aubin points out. “All of our operations,
submitted a bid too. NineStar [ Johnson
staff, support center and field personnel are County Fiber Network] came in at half the
located in Johnson and Hancock counties.”
price with a much faster speed. It’s been
a godsend for us. Having fiber allows our
JCFN also deploys the latest in technologies visitors to keep in touch with the outside
that provide the fastest broadband speed
world, and it opens up new opportunities to
and most reliable services to organizations
host new groups and events.”
in Johnson County.
One of JCFN customers is the City of
Broadband speeds are synchronous, which Greenwood. Rich Jones, Greenwood’s
means if you have a 150Mb connection,
CIO, had this to say about working with
you get 150Mb down and 150Mb up
JCFN at Freedom Springs Aquatics Park,
connectivity. Broadband solutions up
“After months of planning with a major
to 1Gig and beyond are also available
telecommunications company, I suddenly
through JCFN.
found myself scrambling to find a vendor.
INVESTING IN THE LOCAL
COMMUNITY
“At the core of JCFN are two cooperatives,
Johnson County REMC and NineStar
Connect,” Aubin pointed out. “These
companies are owned by their members, and
their board of directors are elected by the
members. They operate within their specific
territories and are driven to provide the best
services possible to the customers they serve.”
Both founding partners of JCFN reinvest
in the communities they serve. Millions of
dollars have been provided to charities and
organizations within their service territories
including sponsoring students on weeklong
Youth Tours to our nation’s capital and the
Johnson County Fair Queen contest. They
also award scholarships annually to high
school students.
“HAVING FIBER OPENS UP
NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR
THE INDIANA FFA LEADERSHIP
CENTER.”
- JOE PARK, EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR
“IN BUSINESS, YOU WANT
TO GET QUALITY, PRICE AND
SERVICE. YOU ARE USUALLY
LUCKY TO GET ONE OF THE
THREE. WITH JOHNSON
COUNTY FIBER NETWORK, I
TRULY GET ALL THREE.”
- ED SULYA, PRESIDENT,
ARCHITECTURAL WALLS, INC
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Johnson County Fiber provides
fiber and critical Internet/VPN
services to support the network
and point of sales systems at
Freedom Springs Aquatics Center.