| Groups push for broadband stimulus The U.S. Congress should keep money for broadband deployment in a huge economic stimulus package, despite some calls to trim it out of the bill, representatives of three groups said Friday. Advocates disagree on broadband stimulus The U.S. government should provide money for broadband deployment in an upcoming stimulus package, several groups said Friday, but the broadband advocates couldn't agree on how the money should be spent. Obama's broadband stimulus: throwing money at wrong target? President Obama is not happy that the United States is ranked 15th in the world in broadband adoption and wants to fix things as part of his big economic stimulus package. But it's not at all clear that the type of approach in the current draft bill will help improve the U.S. ranking all that much. Part of the problem is that the ranking is misleading. All's well with U.S. broadband deployment (says FCC) Earlier this month, the FCC finally got around to releasing the U.S. broadband deployment report it approved in March. This fifth in a series "examining the availability of advanced telecommunications capability to all Americans" is just as silly as its predecessors. But the report and accompanying order (and further notice for proposed rule-making) on data collection about broadband data services may mean, assuming that the data they get is reasonably analyzed, that future reports may be a bit less silly. Nortel exec issues vague promise to detail its reorganization Nortel plans to deliver more details within a few weeks about how it plans to get out of bankruptcy, a company official says, which may help placate suppliers nervous about the lack of specifics. Wendell Odom's OSPF Puzzle V: predicting which LSAs are in which areas. There's at least enough confusion on this topic as to be a useful discussion for those going after the CCNP routing test. NX-OS Training Videos on YouTube Cisco Subnet blogger Michael Morris offers some free training videos to help get you up to NX-OS speed ona tight budget. Cisco Adds Features to Firewall Services Module February 9, Cisco released Firewall Services Module (FWSM) software for the 6500 switch and Cisco Subnet blogger Scott Hogg explains the new features. Cisco QoS - LLQ / CBWFQ and MQC Processing Similar to an access control list (ACL), a MQC policy-map is processed by the router in a top down fashion, explains Cisco Subnet blogger Dennis Hartmann. Blue Gears - DMZ w/5 Physical NICs with VMware ESX Cisco Subnet blogger Edward Haletky says that virtualization hosts with only 5 pNICs who want to include a DMZ and other networks present a challenge and face a performance vs. security trade-off. Summing up RF math (no pun intended) Readers had many questions for Brandon Carroll's tutorial on access points and the RF engineering that make them work. February giveaways from Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet
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