Helpful web-sites for ISPs Part 1
Over the years a good network admin collects websites which are useful in their job. I have put together a partial list
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Corporate vs ISP networks for the ISP
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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
j2 Podcast:5g hype, more bandwidth, preseem
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Hi this is Justin, it’s Tuesday July 30th 2019 and this is the ISP news you need to know.
Speeds and the next generation ISP
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SouthWest ISP regional meetup July 12, 2019
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-southwest-isp-regional-meetup-tickets-63089643823 This meeting is open to any and all Internet Service Providers in Texas, as well as anyone else willing to come to our Great State! You don’t have to be a WISPA member to attend. Come meet with fellow operators, see all the greatness of the Ericsson Headquarters, and hear topics from various knowledge … Read more
Cisco ISP essentials
An oldie but a goodie. Very Cisco focused and a little dated, but lots of good info here for Internet Service Providers. Find it on amazon pretty inexpensive these days.
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 fulfills a goal set out in the American Broadband Initiative announced in February to make … Read more
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 is the layer3 vs layer2 traffic. We at MidWest-IX only allow remote peering at a … Read more
Broadband in Warren County Indiana Study
If you would like to have access to this 22-page study on broadband in Warren County Indiana please contact [email protected] for details.
Indiana 2019 ISP meeting May 16th
We are pleased to announce the 2019 Indiana Internet Service Providers (ISP) meeting on May 16th 2019.