Business Only Broadband (BOB), a company that provides Carrier-Class, diverse wireless Metro Ethernet Data Network and Internet Solutions, recently announced a new addition to its client base.

Shoreline Sightseeing, the owner of boat-touring fleet with nine major touring vessels and 11 water taxis, will now avail the services from BOB.

Shoreline offers classic Skyline Tours on Lake Michigan, guided Architecture Cruises on the Chicago River, dramatic Fireworks Cruises, guided River Ride/City Walk Architecture Tours, and special events such as our popular Brew Cruises and Wine Tasting Cruises.

Shoreline Water Taxis make fast, fun connections between Chicago's major touring destinations, including Navy Pier, the Michigan Avenue Bridge, Willis Tower/Union Station, and Chicago's Museum Campus.

Ken Wagner, IT Manager at Shoreline Sightseeing, said, “Shoreline hosts various applications on the Internet that support our ticketing operations for tours, cruises, and events. BOB was brought in to help support this due to the poor current communication infrastructure at our location consisting of old copper twisted tier and nothing but T1s providing unreliable service. By providing a much needed increase in bandwidth to our remote kiosks, we now run a much more efficient network and service our customers more efficiently. BOB's solution was installed quickly and gives us flexibility to increase bandwidth on short notice.”

“We've experienced rock solid service from BOB since installation was completed and thanks to BOB, we are now able to access the Internet with the speeds our boat-touring and sightseeing business needs, and service our customers in the most efficient possible manner,” he added.

BOB offers services to the financial, healthcare, hospitality, education, government and other enterprise sectors. The company has an additional presence in the Milwaukee and New York City metropolitan areas. The group offers diverse access from all other terrestrial carriers, a highly-resilient design with a self-healing Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) architecture, diverse Tier 1 Internet peering points, and Carrier-Grade Service Level Agreements.

“BOB is pleased to partner with Shoreline Sightseeing and provide the company with Internet access in an area that has limited options. This is a growing issue with businesses as they try to keep up with big bandwidth demands,” said Jon Procunier, vice president of Sales, Business Only Broadband. “This specific location is downtown near Lake Michigan and our solution has provided the connectivity needed to run the business smoothly.”