Linux Foundation Training & Certification and the Magma Core Foundation have partnered to develop a free, ten-week self-paced online training course to help technology strategists and decision makers at telcos; as well as, rural ISP operators and systems integrators learn the fundamentals of Magma. Magma is an...
A South Dakota Native American tribe has solved one of the biggest challenges facing tribal schools amid the deadly COVID-19 pandemic by developing a plan to provide computers and cost-effective, high-speed internet connections to all students and teachers. As the pandemic rages on, schools that serve...
Cisco is assembling wireless and wireline partners to help it secure a share of the USA’s various funding schemes to bring broadband connectivity to rural areas. On the wireless side, Cisco has teamed up with MuralNet, a non-profit organization that helps indigenous communities build and operate...
Partners behind Oakland, Calif.-based MuralNet and St. Louis, Mo.-based Arcadian Infracom say their projects will help deliver critical infrastructure to rural tribal communities that often lack reliable internet connectivity, the need for which has been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic....
On March 12, Cisco took a very bold step and declared a global “work from home” policy for most of our 140,000 employees, contractors, and partners. The almost-overnight move presented a number of challenges—for example, securing 130,000 devices across 498 offices in 94 countries. Overall,...
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Distance learning is the new normal for students in the age of COVID-19. And for many, clicking into a Zoom class or another online meeting space is as easy as one, two, three. But for Native Americans living on reservations in San Diego...
The Federal Communications Commission on Friday extended by 30 days a deadline for American Indian tribes to apply for free licenses to use broadband-friendly airwaves. The extension gives tribes until Sept. 2 to complete their applications for 2.5 GHz band airwaves. Tribes sought an extension, citing...
The Federal Communications Commission on Friday extended by 30 days a deadline for American Indian tribes to apply for free licenses to use broadband-friendly airwaves. The extension gives tribes until Sept. 2 to complete their applications for 2.5 GHz band airwaves. Tribes sought an extension, citing...
Yesterday, Congresswoman Deb Haaland and Senator Elizabeth Warren introduced the DIGITAL Reservations Act, a bill which ends the current Federal Communications Commission (FCC) practice of selling wireless spectrum rights on the lands of Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations and grants ownership, management, and governance of...
See how the Makah Tribe launched an emergency network on EBS spectrum during COVID-19...
