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  1. Avera Health keeps information secure with help from SDN Communications
    It’s not surprising that hackers and data thieves are attracted to large, successful health-care systems. Hospitals and other health-care facilities are entrusted with enormous amounts of personal information about patients.
  2. School bandwidth needs rise along with computer use
    The Sioux Falls School District will begin the third year of its Student Technology Initiative in September with more broadband power than ever. Education officials determined last school year that middle schools, in particular, needed more Internet connection speed, and they will get it.
  3. DSU camp helps stir girls’ interest in field of cybersecurity
    Interest is running high in a cybersecurity camp designed for girls that will be held at Dakota State University.
  4. TrioTel provides big-time connectivity to a rural market
    Although TrioTel Communications Inc. serves a relatively small market in South Dakota farm country, its customers enjoy a level of connectivity that companies serving some of the largest cities in the United States cannot beat.
  5. Internship program helps SDN find, groom good employees
    Finding good employees is a constant challenge. One good way to combat the problem is to hire promising interns and groom them into full-time employees. SDN Communications is among the companies that has been making greater use of its internship program in recent years.
  6. At SDN Communications, everything starts with 'why'
    At SDN Communications, 'Enjoy the Uptime' is more than a slogan. Providing uptime for businesses is the bottom line.
  7. Golden West strives to keep huge area well connected
    Denny Law, chief executive officer of Golden West, jokes that his cooperative doesn’t convene many all-employee meetings. The gatherings would require employees to drive too much.
  8. Alliance Communications to begin new era of leadership
    Before 2016, Alliance Communications will begin a new era. The next chapter in the history of the telecommunications cooperative will start with a new leader. Don Snyders, longtime general manager of Alliance, has announced his plans to retire later in 2015.
  9. SDN Communications CEO Named Progressive Rural Network Evolutionary by International Publication
    OSP, a telecommunications trade magazine reaching an international audience, has named SDN Communications CEO Mark Shlanta a Progressive Rural Network Evolutionary.
  10. Kennebec Telephone Co. helps keep small town going
    Kennebec Telephone Co. Inc. is one of the smallest phone companies in South Dakota. It’s also the most diverse.
  11. 10 ways businesses benefit from SDN Ethernet service
    Ethernet technology has grown through the years to become a highly popular, industry standard in electronic communications.
  12. SDN edges SONIFI, but United Way is the real winner in contest
    SDN Communications won bragging rights and lunch for more than 100 of staff members by signing up more Heart Club members for the Sioux Empire United Way than SONIFI Solutions.
  13. Coming (but not soon) to a mobile device near you: 5G
    Twenty years ago, mobile data was information that people compiled in notebooks and carried around with them. The definition began changing in the 1990s when digital cellular networks started going mainstream.
  14. SDN’s first CEO proud of what the company has become
    “SDN Communications is now, as it should be, a hugely successful, robust business, and one of the most significant South Dakota corporations,” says SDN's first CEO, Rich Scott.
  15. SDN’s first 25 years include several significant milestones
    The creation of the South Dakota Network 25 years ago marked the start of the company that does business today as SDN Communications. SDN has become the premier, regional provider of broadband connectivity and related technology services for businesses.
  16. SDN and Minnesota telecoms embark on historic expansion
    SDN Communications’ broadband network is about to become a significantly bigger and more widely available vehicle for regional business communications. Six independent telephone companies in southern Minnesota and one in Iowa are partnering with South Dakota-based SDN to improve connectivity and Internet options for business customers in both states.
  17. Gary Fischer’s high level of expertise helps SDN clients
    Gary Fischer is in the prime of his high-tech career. But he remembers when 70-megabyte hard drives were about the size of a coffee table and hauling them around was a two-person job. Now, portable hard drives with thousands of times more storage capacity are about the size and weight of a cellphone.
  18. Construction work led J.J. Anderson to career in telecom
    He found a good place for his interests and skills with SDN Communications as a wholesale carrier relations executive at the company’s headquarters in Sioux Falls. As part of the wholesale services team, Anderson works with SDN’s member companies as well as regional and national carriers.
  19. Five steps businesses can take to prepare for disaster
    Up to 40 percent of businesses disrupted by natural disasters or human-caused problems never reopen, according to the Insurance Information Institute. Customers probably will sympathize with a business that gets shut down, but if they have to wait too long for a needed product or service, they are likely to go to a competitor.
  20. FFM banks gain confidence with continuity help from SDN
    Technology executives with First Farmers & Merchants Bank feel confident with SDN Communications helping keep their network running. We went with SDN last year. It was really the first time we went with anyone local. It's been awesome, says Darlene Gonnerman, senior network administrator for FFM.