Metro Ethernet Provider Frontier Communications Seeks to Retain California Customers

- Alert). In reaction to this merger, Frontier is ramping up its efforts to woo former SureWest businesses to sign up for Frontier’s VoIP and metro Ethernet services. Since Frontier is an established brand in the Elk Grove area, it hopes to leverage that reputation to pick up more customers.

Frontier has touted the ease of switching from SureWest, assuring customers that they should be able to transition to the new provider without penalties or hassles. The California Public Utilities Commission has mandated that customers newly moved to Consolidated can terminate service without having to pay any fees, even if their contracts are not up.

Recently, Frontier acquired Verizon’s (News

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Alpheus to Expand Metro Ethernet Network in Texas

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Apple Posts FAQ on Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

Although it would seem pretty straightforward, Apple has posted a frequently asked questions page for its new Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter, which answers any burning questions you might have about the $29 dongle.

Apple has updated its support website with a new Apple Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter: Frequently Asked Questions entry, posing six questions that users might ask about the $29 dongle, along with comforting answers and resolutions to any potential issues.

Such as: Yes, you can use the adapter with any Thunderbolt-equipped Mac running OS X Lion 10.7.4 or later, but you'll want to install the Thunderbolt Software Update 1.2.1 if your Mac was released prior to this month.

Yes, you can connect the adapter to any Thunderbolt port, including the pass-through port on an Apple Thunderbolt Display or third-party device. However, take note that other devices in the chain could adversely affect performance.

"Mass Storage and other high-bandwidth devices can affect the performance of this adapter," the FAQ notes. "If you have issues mixing this adapter with such devices, connect it directly to another Thunderbolt port on your computer, or connect it to a low-bandwidth device on the Thunderbolt chain."

That is, unless you only have one Thunderbolt port, in which case you're pretty much up the creek without a paddle, as the saying goes.

One last tip: No, the Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter can't be used on a Mac without Thunderbolt, even if you're able to plug it into that old Mini DisplayPort jack. But you already knew that, didn't you

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Metro Ethernet Forum Certifies Edge-Core Networks

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Business Ethernet: Asidua Unveils New WanStaX Carrier Ethernet Suite

Business Ethernet Case Studies Leading Community Bank Deposits Greater Network Reliability and Performance with tw telecom Services Boise State University Graduates to Largest National Education VoIP Deployment with tw telecom IP-based Solution tw telecom Optimizes City of Clearwater's Internet Service - Triples Bandwidth at 80 Percent of the Cost Green Mountain Energy Company's Disaster Recovery Solution tw telecom Delivers Healthy Cost Cuts for HealthPlus Hospitals International Shipping Broker Charters tw telecom VoIP Service to Sink Long Distance Phone Charges

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Data Centers Serve as Growth Engine for Ethernet Switches

direct attach and 10G Base-T. We further anticipate that in 2014, small and medium businesses will upgrade to 10 GbE. Looking towards the second half of the decade, 40 GE and 100 GE switches will be an important growth driver for the Ethernet switch market,” stated Weckel.

Besides data centers, the other three main deployment locations for Ethernet switches include the  Enterprise (e.g., campus and branch office), small and medium businesses (SMBs), and carrier Ethernet services. Major Ethernet switch vendors discussed in the report include Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco (News

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Metro Ethernet Provider FiberLight Gets NIH Contract in Maryland

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Telecom Platform Deployment Provider Overture Expands Carrier Ethernet Service Demarcation Portfolio

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PEG Bandwidth Deploys MRV's OptiSwitch Carrier Ethernet Switching Platform

Conolog Introduces Fidra to Support Optical Communications
Conolog is supporting various optical communications with the release of Fidra, a new fiber optic switch. The new switch has been designed to monitor, reroute, repeat, boost and disable up to three fiber optic communication pairs.

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Comcast to Provide Metro Ethernet Services to the Twin Cities

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Xserve (Early 2008), Lion Server: LOM interface may not be available on Ethernet

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On an Xserve (Early 2008) running Lion or Lion Server, the LOM interface may not be available on Ethernet.

Products Affected

Lion Server, Xserve (Early 2008), OS X Lion

As a workaround to re-enable the LOM interface, "warm reboot" the LOM after Lion has started and initialized its network ports. Execute this command:

sudo ipmitool bmc reset warm

Advanced: Create a launchd item as a workaround

You can use the following steps to create a launchd item that runs this command, so that you do not have to run the command manually each time you restart the Xserve.

Execute this command:
sudo nano "/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.resetbmc.plist"
Insert the following lines:


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