NTIA launches Funding web-site

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration released a searchable database of 50 federal broadband programs. They span a dozen federal agencies with billions of dollars for broadband grants, loans and other resources. Participating federal agencies helped create the database. It …

FCC and their view of broadband

It seems the FCC is getting some pushback on its picture of broadband access in the United States. Much of the article centers around Form 477 and the inaccuracies being found in it. https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/30/18644726/fcc-broadband-report-high-speed-rural-statistics-reactions

Podcast: Cameron Kilton from Alpha and I talk about LTE

Cameron Kilton from Alpha Wireless and i sit down at the 2019 Indiana ISP meeting and talk about LTE and Wireless operators.  Pardon the rough beginning. the room we were in had a flickering light that took me by surprise …

Ubiquiti releases EdgeMAX EdgeSwitch software 1.8.2

From their announcement A new software release for EdgeSwitch (all current models) is available here: EdgeSwitch 1G switch models: ES-48-750W, ES-48-500W, ES-24-500W, ES-24-250W, ES-48-Lite, ES-24-Lite, ES-16-150W, ES-12F,ES-8-150W, EP-S16. Normal version: https://dl.ubnt.com/firmwares/edgemax/EdgeSwitch/v1.8.2/ES-eswh.v1.8.2.5192445.stk (SHA1: b1f66416276ef7de9abd5d2c50fa79b75d1bfe49) (GPL archive) LITE version: https://dl.ubnt.com/firmwares/edgemax/EdgeSwitch/v1.8.2/ES-eswh.v1.8.2-lite.5192445.stk (SHA1: 47c11f3ce06d77e450a480877e06d2e72a6c6192) Mib files: https://dl.ubnt.com/firmwares/edgemax/EdgeSwitch/v1.8.2/ES-eswh.v1.8.2.5192445-mibs.tar.gz (SHA1: 85b3acb15923b94f25bc965a98f72d24a4dac1f1) EdgeSwitch 10G switch model: ES-16-XG Normal …

Remote Peering

Martin J. Levy from Cloudflare did a presentation about remote peering possibly being a bad thing. In this presentation, he brings up several valid points. https://www.globalpeeringforum.org/pastEvents/gpf14/presentations/Wed_2_MartinLevy_remote_peering_is_bad_for.pdf Some thoughts of my own. Yes, remote peering is happening.  One thing touched upon …