VPLS can be used to transport Ethernet frames to and from multiple, geographically dispersed sites belonging to a customer Virtual Private Network (VPN). The Provider Edge (PE) devices connecting the customer sites provide functions similar to a Layer 2 switch.
Equivalent Ranks to an Army Master Sergeant A Master Sergeant is a Noncommissioned Officer, with a military paygrade of E-8. The civilian equivalent of this military rank is roughly GS-6 under the federal government's General Schedule payscale.
Fort Jackson Army Base. The US Army Basic Combat Training (BCT) base Fort Jackson is located in Columbia, South Carolina. The base is named after President Andrew Jackson who was also a United States Army General. Fort Jackson is the biggest Initial Entry Training Center of the United States Army, training thirty-four percent of all troops and sixty-nine percent of all women entering the Army every year.