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ALTOONA, IA and DES MOINES, Iowa; (July 26, 2006) – LightEdge Solutions, LBC Technology and Ladco Development today announced that construction of the Edge Business Continuity Center (EdgeBCC) is on schedule and has reached a major milestone as the external structure and roof have been completed and passed testing. The parking lot, concrete placement pads for diesel backup generators and data center cooling units have also been finished in preparation for an estimated grand opening date of November 1, 2006.

EdgeBCC is a 30,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility engineered to provide businesses with a safe haven for protecting their data assets and ensuring critical business operations during a natural disaster to unplanned interruption. The facility has been designed and tested to withstand 200 mph sustained winds, sits atop two separate power grids and includes redundant connections to the Internet. In addition to a full range of data center services, Edge BCC offers disaster recovery workspace with fully-equipped, plug-and-play voice and data connectivity.

“EdgeBCC is really a unique endeavor. The collaboration of Ladco, LBC and LightEdge brings a great deal of knowledge and experience to the table that usually isn’t found with a single business,” said Skip Williams, vice president of sales for Binomial, a national business continuity consulting group. “This facility is indicative of a growing trend toward business continuity for small and medium businesses. EdgeBCC can make this a reality for businesses in Iowa and surrounding states.”

“Business continuity has long been an important component in the risk mitigation strategies of large companies,” said Jim Masterson, chairman and chief executive officer of LightEdge Solutions. “More and more, small and midsize businesses are increasing their reliance on technology, and therefore need to consider the same types of business continuity and disaster recovery initiatives. EdgeBCC will not only help the businesses through a disastrous event, but also positively impact their productivity on a daily basis.”

“Upon completion, EdgeBCC will be the only building of its kind in the Des Moines metro area allowing businesses from Iowa and surrounding states to utilize secure and redundant data center facilities for normal business operations and disaster recovery workspace during a natural disaster or other business interruption,” said Peder Malchow, president of LBC Technology. “On a national level, the facility will allow businesses in hurricane or earthquake-prone areas to host applications or store data in a world-class facility located in the relative safety of the Midwest.”

To manage the facility, EdgeBCC has appointed technology veteran Travis Thompson as chief operating officer. Thompson brings 14 years of experience with the security and engineering processes associated with wide area networking, voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) and storage networking. Currently a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) and a Cisco Certified Security Specialist (CCSP), Thompson will oversee daily operations including monitoring of the site’s two data centers, coordinating the usage and testing of the disaster recovery workspace and administering the security of both the physical building and the private network.

The building is expected to open by November 1, 2006, with a grand opening ceremony scheduled for September 26, 2006. Facility tours are available through LBC and LightEdge. To make a risk-free reservation for disaster recovery workspace, data center space or managed services, contact LBC or LightEdge.

About Edge Business Continuity Center
Edge Business Continuity Center (EdgeBCC) is a state-of-the-art facility located in Altoona, IA offering over 10,000 square feet of data center space and over 300 disaster recovery workstations provisioned with desktops and VoIP phone handsets. The facility has been built around a highly redundant private network infrastructure, allowing for some of the highest service level agreements in the industry. EdgeBCC is a joint venture between LightEdge Solutions, LBC Technology and Ladco Development. For more information, visit the EdgeBCC Web site at www.edgebcc.com.

About LBC Technology
LBC Technology is a one-call, end-to-end technology and business process partner for small and medium businesses (SMBs). LBC’s unique SMB Support Portfolio represents a well-coordinated approach to serving the SMB market’s technology needs more effectively, providing best-in-class technology strategies, solutions, and support to traditionally underserved market segments. LBC makes technology management easier and less risky for SMBs every step of the way-not just buying, but also installing, running, adapting, protecting, and supporting SMB technology investments. For more information, call Peder Malchow at 515-974-4520 or visit the LBC Technology Web site at www.lbctechnology.com.

About LadCo Development
West Des Moines-based Ladco Development specializes in land and facilities development. Ladco’s seasoned development team has developed an entire range of facilities from general use buildings to specialized complexes such as medical campuses and medical centers. Ladco Development’s strengths and experience enable it to work on any stage, in any scale. When the final “product,” is delivered, tenants and investors not only appreciate the quality of the new facility, but also the positive process and close partnership gained in working with Ladco. The company offers a complete continuum of services-development, financing, equity partnerships, and professional property management. For more information, contact Ladco Development at 515-278-8505 or visit the Ladco Development Web site at www.ladcodevelopment.com.

About LightEdge Solutions
LightEdge Solutions® empowers businesses to be more productive, mobile and effective with managed voice and data services delivered through a multi-homed, Cisco Powered Network data center environment. By out-tasking voice, data and IT services, small and medium sized businesses are able to realize unparalleled scalability and reliability with a lower total cost of ownership and reduced administration. For more information about services available for your business, visit LightEdge’s web site at www.lightedge.com.

LightEdge Solutions® and the LightEdge Solutions logo, and Scale-on-Demand™ are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of LightEdge Solutions, Inc. EdgeBCC™ and the EdgeBCC logo are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of the Edge Business Continuity Center. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

DES MOINES, Iowa; (July 18, 2006) – LightEdge Solutions, a leading provider of business-to-business managed voice, data and IT services, today announced the completion of a network infrastructure build-out that will add Ames, Iowa City and Dubuque to the LightEdge voice network. Becoming part of this network will allow businesses in these areas to cost-effectively access the features and functionality of the LightEdge voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) platform.

To enable this expansion, LightEdge has added redundant pairs of Cisco media gateways to several facilities. In all instances the devices have been configured as pairs with one acting as the primary device and the other acting as the failover. The addition of these devices has nearly doubled LightEdge’s service capacity available for the Iowa City market, and allows for a much greater reach and better reliability in Ames and Dubuque.

“Our goal with any infrastructure change is ultimately to improve our network so that LightEdge can better serve small and medium-sized businesses,” said Jim Masterson, chairman and chief executive officer of LightEdge. “This is a big win because customers will receive better coverage, reduced costs and enhanced reliability.”

The additional coverage applies to both the converged access and hosted PBX VoIP services provided by LightEdge. In a converged access VoIP implementation, the telephone lines are replaced by a private, high-speed connection to LightEdge. The phone handsets and PBX are left intact. Hosted PBX also involves replacing the phone lines with connectivity from LightEdge, but the company’s PBX and phone handsets are no longer utilized. All of the phone functionality, including voice mail, “Find me/Follow me” call routing, remote office and push-to-talk, is provided through the LightEdge VoIP platform via IP-enabled phones.

While VoIP has become popular for residential use, it has only very recently become of a high enough quality for businesses. The Dell’Oro Group anticipates that IP PBX sales will reach $2 billion by 2010, nearly a three-fold increase from 2005.

About LightEdge Solutions
LightEdge Solutions® empowers businesses to be more productive, mobile and effective with managed voice and data services delivered through a multi-homed, Cisco Powered Network data center environment. By out-tasking voice, data and IT services, small and medium sized businesses are able to realize unparalleled scalability and reliability with a lower total cost of ownership and reduced administration. For more information about services available for your business, visit LightEdge’s web site at www.lightedge.com.

LightEdge Solutions® and the LightEdge Solutions logo, and Scale-on-Demand™ are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of LightEdge Solutions, Inc. EdgeBCC™ and the EdgeBCC logo are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of the Edge Business Continuity Center. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

DES MOINES, Iowa; MOLINE, Ill (July 11, 2006) – LightEdge Solutions, a leading provider of business-to-business managed voice, data and IT services, today announced a strategic expansion enabling LightEdge to provide high quality voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) telephone and managed services to businesses in the Greater Peoria Market. This expansion comes as the result of a recent business combination with Internet Express, Inc. From this partnership, Lightedge Solutions has gained a redundant data network that will provide the backbone to deliver carrier-grade voice and data services in the Quad-Cities and Peoria.

“In reviewing trends, it’s obvious that VoIP is ready to explode. We have strategically built our network to allow us to scale for a high volume of business,” said Jim Masterson, chairman and chief executive officer of LightEdge Solutions. “With the Quad-Cities partnership, and now the expansion to Peoria, we are allowing new markets to tap into the VoIP platform and network infrastructure that is helping to support nearly 4,000 companies in the Midwest and Southwest.”

LightEdge offers both converged access VoIP and a fully hosted VoIP solution through a quality managed connection to LightEdge. Converged access enables a business to replace its phone lines with a private high-speed connection to LightEdge while existing handsets and the PBX device remain intact. In a hosted model, all of the traditional PBX features (i.e., voicemail and call-forwarding) are handled within the LightEdge VoIP platform to provide an additional level of disaster recovery. Calls are made over private high-speed connections via special IP phones. Users are able to control their personal phone features using a Web-based administration tool. Hybrid phone systems, consisting of both converged access and hosted VoIP, can be established based on the specific needs of the client.

As one of the few providers in Peoria to conduct calls through a completely private and managed infrastructure, LightEdge is able to offer some of the highest service level agreements and provide business-grade service free from latency or signal degradation. The VoIP infrastructure is upgraded regularly to enable new functionality as it is released for the platform.

As a comprehensive managed services provider, LightEdge will offer Peoria businesses a wide array of services that have not been available through a single company. In addition to VoIP, businesses will have access to cost-effective: high-speed business Internet services, IP wide area networking (WAN), managed backup, hosted Microsoft Exchange, dedicated servers and business continuity and disaster recovery services.

About LightEdge Solutions
LightEdge Solutions® empowers businesses to be more productive, mobile and effective with managed voice and data services delivered through a multi-homed, Cisco Powered Network data center environment. By out-tasking voice, data and IT services, small and medium sized businesses are able to realize unparalleled scalability and reliability with a lower total cost of ownership and reduced administration. For more information about services available for your business, visit LightEdge’s web site at www.lightedge.com.

LightEdge Solutions® and the LightEdge Solutions logo, and Scale-on-Demand™ are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of LightEdge Solutions, Inc. EdgeBCC™ and the EdgeBCC logo are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of the Edge Business Continuity Center. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.