Community Services

BEV is not adding services for new customers at the current time. We are continuing to support existing customers.

The BEV offers a wide variety of Internet-based services to Blacksburg area citizens, civic groups, and non-profit organizations. Following is a list of our most commonly requested services for community organizations.

Email

Individual mail accounts are available to anyone in the community for personal or non-commercial use. Cost is $22.50/year. Addresses are of the form jsmith@bev.net.

Civic Web Sites

The BEV offers two packages to community and civic organizations.

The standard Community Connections service provides groups with a web site, two email accounts, and a mailing list for $20/year. The URL is of the form http://civic.bev.net/your_group.

The premium Community Connections service provides a web site using the organization's domain name, three email accounts, two mailing lists, and an online calendar, for $87/year.

Arts/Personal web sites

A web site and one email account is available to artists, musicians and for personal use, for $25/year.

DNS

Domain Name Service (DNS) is available for any organization, business, or person in the Blacksburg area. See the DNS page for more information.

MSAP (Multimedia Services Access Point)

The Blacksburg MSAP is offered as a community service to ISPs. The MSAP can provide dramatic network performance improvements for data traffic that does not have to leave Blacksburg (i.e. local Internet traffic).

Mailing lists

Additional mailing lists are available to our Community Connections customers for $12/year.

Online calendars

Fully interactive, forms-based online calendars are available to our Community Connections customers for $18/year.

Newsgroups

The BEV provides a Usenet newsgroup server with several local groups. Posting to these groups is provided as a free service.

Online forums

Online forums (discussion groups) are available for community and civic organizations for $65/year.

Online small group collaboration

The BEV is currently testing a web-based small group collaboration tool with a rich variety of features like shared calendars, shared address books, project management tools, email, and many other features. If your group or board is interested in using this system, write to BEV Info.

Streaming audio/video

The BEV is currently experimenting with providing streaming audio and video as a community service. If your group or organization is interested in trying this service out as an experiment, write to BEV Info.