j2 Briefing: FCC news, Microsoft whitespace, polls
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The j2 Podcast for August 29, 2019 Microsoft is pushing it’s Whitespace product as a solution to the Digital divide. This has been branded “Airband” https://www.multichannel.com/news/microsoft-brands-rural-divide-national-crisis The FCC The commission unanimously voted to distribute more than $20 billion of Universal Service Fund subsidies over the next decade as part of the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund. … Read more
ISP vs Enterprise networks
I recently was hanging out with an ISP admin who moved over from the Enterprise world. After a few days with him, it rekindled the interest in writing this article. From a high level, a network is a network. Its job is to move bits to and fro. The goals of the network are where … Read more
Is your Librenms ./daily.sh failing?
From the Folks over at LibreNMS Users of daily updates (the default), your installs will no longer update without a little manual intervention. It will not be an issue for those on the monthly updates. You will need to update LibreNMS manually to resolve the issue. su – librenms git pull ./daily.sh
Mikrotik LHG60s supporting a WiFi deployment
Farm progress show 2019. Mikrotik 60 ghz backhauling between WiFi nodes. Wireless wire cluster for high Bandwidth customers. 5ghz for smaller bandwidth customers.
Mikrotik 6.46 beta34 noteable things
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Circle City Con 7.0
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/circlecitycon-70-tickets-62810947234 Continuing our year after year record breaking attendance, CircleCityCon 7.0 promises to test our limits and deliver to you a conference unique from all the others. Since Circle 1 we have delivered trainings for free with the option to reserve a seat for a modest fee. Since Circle 2 we brought the arcades in. … Read more
A network analogy
As I was working on some other articles a simple analogy came to me. The folks who build roads are rarely the people who build houses. As such, the server folks who build the digital houses typically don’t build the access networks. For you old-timers, this would be the information superhighway. So why is this … Read more
