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I’m excited to announce NuVox is now able to provide service to the Manchester, Tennessee market for voice and data T1 services. For more information email jkirby@nuvox.com.

Our Services
Here is a list of some things we offer:

Business apps powered by Google
SIP Trunking
Big Bandwidth – 10MB,20MB,50MB,100MB
Conference Calling
Data Backup
Data Center Colocations
Data Security
Dial-up Internet Access
Domain Registration
Email Services & Protection
Fax to Email
Firewall Protection
High Speed Internet Access
Internet Security
Local Phone Service
Long Distance Phone Services
Network QoS / MPLS
SoftPhone
Spam Filters
Toll Free Phone Numbers
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Virus Protection
Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
Voicemail
Voicemail to Email
Web Portal

Our Solutions

Network Solutions
Internet Solutions
Voice Solutions
Security Solutions
Web Solutions
Bundled Solutions

So whether it’s data, high-speed broadband Internet, network and data security, or local, we’ve got what you need. But having the right products is just part of what we do. Being connected means building solutions that help your business succeed.

NuVox Data Center

The NuVox Communications Data Center provides an intelligent solution for keeping your server-driven
network operational and secure. This service allows you to connect your server to NuVox’s existing circuits
without the worry of waiting an extended period of time to install a circuit at your location. Using this
approach, you “eliminate the last mile,” making routing the network connections to your server more
efficient.
The benefits for using the Data Center are many: redundant network connectivity, a facility power system
that will never fail your server, storage locked in a controlled environment, and the security that you need to
stay operational. The Data Center is one more way that NuVox Communications provides business solutions
that help you stay ahead of your competition.

Why use the Data Center?

Redundant Network Connectivity. We “eliminate the
last mile” by providing you with redundant direct Tier 1
connections within our switch site. This allows you, the
customer, to purchase a space and begin accessing your
server instantaneously. This presents you with options to
control access speed with a simple call to the technician
in our switch site.
Redundant Power System. Our system begins with two
commercial power sources into the building. In the event
of a commercial power loss, power is automatically
transferred to our internal generator. NuVox also
contracts with external fuel providers to ensure on-call
fueling for generators, which can run up to 3 days at a
time. In the event of a mechanical failure in the generator,
power is transferred to 42,000 pounds of batteries which
will supply DC power, and to two Uninterrupted Power Systems (UPS) which will provide AC power for 10½
hours.
Climate (environmental) Control. Kept at a consistent 72°F with 50%
humidity, you can be assured that your server will keep running in the
condition for which it was built. The Data Center uses top-notch
environmental controls as well as static-free floors and a fire suppression
system which deploys FM-200 gas to control the spread of fire without
damage to the server.
Physical Security with Limited Access. The Data Center is highly secured
and is monitored 24 x 7 x 365. Your server is secured through the use of
constant surveillance and a series of alarms, which are reported through the
24-hour Network Operations Center (NOC). In addition to these measures,
the Data Center offers secured shelf space in which you, the owner, may
possess the only key to your equipment.
To learn more about how the Data Center can work for your business, contact Jonathan at 615-620-5223 or by email at jkirby@nuvox.com

GREENVILLE, S.C., Aug 13, 2009 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — NuVox, a leading competitive communications provider of voice, data, business applications, and security solutions for business customers throughout the Southeast and Midwest, recently launched a Social Media campaign to increase brand awareness and establish a greater presence on the web. NuVox’s overall marketing strategy combines social media tactics and traditional public relations practices to promote the NuVox(R) brand to its target customers.

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090714/CL46112LOGO ) The Social Media campaign will build awareness of NuVox’s products and services by using the latest social media tools. By incorporating social media into its marketing strategy, NuVox extends its overall reach making information on products and services more accessible. With a presence on Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, Flickr, and the NuVox YouTube Channel, these social media networking sites act as an effective outlet for releasing information to key audiences.

“Our Marketing team is constantly exploring and developing creative ways to promote the NuVox brand to small and medium- sized businesses,” said Sid Earley, Vice President of Marketing for NuVox. “Utilizing social media tools allows us to target customers, prospects, dealers, vendor partners, referral agents, and friends. We believe this initiative will boost our presence on the web and allow us to continue building brand awareness for NuVox.” One of NuVox’s most recent social media endeavors included launching a series of funny, yet informative videos on YouTube. The videos, featuring the “NuVox Office Genie,” are available on NuVox’s YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/NuVoxComm. Thus far, the company has released six videos: — The NuVox Office Genie Goes on a Sales Call — The NuVox Office Genie Follows his Dream — The NuVox Office Genie Goes for the Green — Meet the NuVox Office Genie — NuVox Office Genie Video Conference — SIP BeatVox with NuVox Office Genie Using YouTube as the platform to launch this campaign further builds on NuVox’s relationship with Google that began earlier this year with the launch of NuVox Business Apps powered by Google. NuVox plans to continue releasing videos throughout the remainder of 2009.

About NuVox: NuVox delivers customized managed communications services, information technology, data, security, and voice solutions designed specifically for business customers. NuVox serves approximately 90,000 customers in the Southeast and Midwest, and provides select services throughout the United States. NuVox delivers services via its industry-leading MPLS-based wide area private IP network. NuVox has been certified by Cisco and is a member of the Cisco Powered Program for VoxNET, the company’s MPLS wide-area networking solution. In addition to retail solutions, NuVox also provides services to government and wholesale customers. For more information, visit www.nuvox.com.

More information about NuVox can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/user/NuVoxComm http://www.facebook.com/pages/NuVox/86075306049 http://twitter.com/NuVox http://www.myspace.com/nuvox360 http://delicious.com/nuvox SOURCE NuVox URL: http://www.nuvox.com

NEW YORK — A hacker attack Thursday shut down the fast-growing messaging service Twitter for hours, while Facebook experienced intermittent access problems.

Twitter said it suffered a denial-of-service attack, in which hackers command scores of computers to a single site at the same time, preventing legitimate traffic from getting through.

The fact that a relatively common attack could disable such a well-known Web site shows just how young and vulnerable Twitter still is, even as it quickly becomes a household name used by celebrities, large corporations, small businesses and even protesters in Iran.

“Clearly they need a stronger infrastructure to be able to fight this kind of attack,” said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at computer security firm Sophos. Twitter’s tech support teams, he added, “must be frankly out of breath” trying to keep up with the site’s enormous growth.

According to comScore, Twitter had 20.1 million unique visitors in the United States in June, some 34 times the 593,000 a year earlier.

For Twitter users, the outage meant no tweeting about lunch plans, the weather or the fact that Twitter is down.

“I had to Google search Twitter to find out what was going on, when normally my Twitter feed gives me all the breaking news I need,” said Alison Koski, a New York public-relations manager. She added she felt “completely lost” without Twitter.

The Twitter outage began at about 9 a.m. EDT and lasted a few hours.

Facebook, whose users encountered intermittent problems Thursday morning, was also the subject of a denial-of-service attack, though it was not known whether the same hackers were involved. Unlike Twitter, Facebook never became completely inaccessible. Facebook said no user information was at risk.

LiveJournal, a 10-year-old online diary and blogging site that has waned in popularity in recent years, was also the subject of a denial-of-service attack that lasted about an hour Thursday morning, the company said.

By early afternoon both Twitter and Facebook seemed to be functioning, giving cubicle-bound social media addicts a collective sigh of relief. Twitter warned, though, that as it recovers, “users will experience some longer load times and slowness.”

Technology business analyst Shelly Palmer told AP Radio that denial-of-service attacks are a reality of the information age.

“People tend to want to take sites that are very public and go after them,” said Palmer, managing director of Advanced Media Ventures Group. “In fact you’d be surprised how many sites for major companies are really attacked on a daily basis. This is a crime, it’s a real crime and it should be treated that way.”

Earlier this week, Gawker Media, which owns the eponymous media commentary blog and other sites, was also attacked. In a blog post, Gawker said Tuesday it was attacked by “dastardly hackers,” leading to server problems that caused network-wide outages Sunday and Monday. It was not immediately clear whether those attacks were related to Twitter’s.

Thursday’s was not the first — and likely not the last — outage for Twitter.

Besides planned maintenance outages, overcapacity can cripple Web sites, especially such fast-growing ones as Twitter and Facebook.

In fact, service outages on Twitter once were so common that management began posting a “Fail Whale” logo on the Web site to signal when the service was down. The logo featured a whale being hoisted above the water by a flock of birds.

Millions of Twitter users aren’t familiar with the 3-year-old service’s history of frequent outages because they began tweeting in the past six months, around the same time that the San Francisco-based company had was spending more money to increase its computing power and reduce the disruptions. With the added capacity, the Fail Whale rarely surfaces any more.

Even so, the entire site being down means Twitter hasn’t put enough measures in place to prevent such an attack, Cluley said. That could include working with Internet service providers to filter potentially malicious requests from legitimate ones, as well as having servers spread out around the world.

Denial-of-service attacks are typically carried out by “botnets” — armies of infected computers formed by spreading a computer virus that orders compromised machines to phone home for further instructions. They are generally used to send out spam or steal passwords, though some can be commanded to overwhelm Web sites.

Successful attacks on popular Web sites were common earlier this decade. Sites such as eBay, Amazon.com and CNN were overwhelmed by such attacks, sometimes for days, in 2000.

But Thursday’s attack underscores the fact that no one is immune.

“With these attacks, if you get enough infected machines … you can take down anyone,” said Dmitri Alperovitch, vice president of threat research at security vendor McAfee Inc.

Last month, dozens of U.S. and South Korean sites, including those of the White House and South Korea’s presidential Blue House, were targeted in denial-of-service attacks.

For Lev Ekster, who runs a mobile cupcake truck called CupCakeStop in New York, Thursday’s Twitter hiccup meant no tweets to customers and fans on the truck’s location and the day’s flavors.

But it wasn’t the end of the world.

“As soon as I saw the Twitter outage, I went on to our Facebook fan page,” said Ekster, who also uses Twitter to get reviews of his cupcakes, find employees and let people know about giveaways.

The lesson, he says, is “not to limit yourself to Twitter and live or die by Twitter.”

Paetec posted a loss this quarter, glad I’m with Nuvox. If you need reliable voice and data service, contact me at 615-995-2105.

Rochester, N.Y. — PAETEC is reporting a second quarter loss of about $16.5 million.

Sales were down 2.5%, a little more than Wall Street had predicted.

The $16.5 million loss compare with a net loss of $14.7 million during the second quarter of last year.

CEO Arunas Chesonis says the company is satisfied with the quarter, given the difficult economy.

PAETEC is still planning on building its new corporate headquarters at the former Midtown Plaza site downtown.