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Members of Congress seek flexibility in FCC's rural broadband requirements
A key element of the CAF II program will be providing fiber-fed broadband services, or some form of a fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) type of architecture using a mix of ADSL2+ or VDSL2 with vectoring to deliver the service over the existing copper connection …
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US airborne communication plane could be tracked on the Web for 9 hours
… callsign, but based on the hex code FR24 could identify it as a Bombardier Global 6000 aircraft, an advanced ultra long-range business jet that has been modified by the U.S. Air Force to accomodate Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN …
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Is There a Ma Joad for the Piketty Era?
“Here is the node, you who hate change and fear revolution,” Steinbeck wrote in one of the novel's inner chapters. “This is the ….. “Does it offer a sustained and compelling diagnosis of the terminal pathology that afflicts us, or is it an especially …
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