Australia has reasonably strong money laundering laws. Australia also has quite strong financial tracking via AUSTRAC and the big four banks. Do you have any sources?
This would get really bad rain fade at 80GHz or even on a humid day the speed would back off a lot. You need to run a lower frequency backup link in parallel.
That's the nature of 80 GHz, design the links for your climate and don't try to go more than 2-3km. You can achieve five nines. And yes, run a 5.x GHz backup path in parallel.
The author mentions he keeps his money in a foreign bank that I presume the MA department of revenue cannot get at. Does anyone have any recommendations of overseas banks that are easy to open accounts with without travelling to said country.
See my above comment. It was just luck that they didn't get to the Barclays money, and yeah that's probably also because Barclays is foreign that the luck happened. But I wouldn't count on that. If I hadn't moved quickly to hire a good tax lawyer and then contact MA and start working on a resolution, they'd have found and frozen our Barclays assets eventually.
> overseas banks that are easy to open accounts with without travelling to said country.
I think you'll find it very difficult to achieve that with a bank you want to trust your money to; anti-money laundering treaties have cranked up the requirements on banks to verify the identity of new customers.
Sure, although if you have a 99.99% uptime SLA, I'd look elsewhere.
Provider is SagoNetworks, based out of Tampa, and have a brand new-ish facility in Atlanta.
Started with them around 2003 and have not looked elsewhere, DC guys bailed me out early days while learning the ropes -- tech support is generally very good.
Couple of times a year the shit hits the fan, core router goes down or other mini-disaster, and you get nailed with a few hours downtime. Give them a ring, they say it's blah blah, we're working on it.
Otherwise, everything hums along, no news is good news ;-)
People don't buy Cisco just for the box with ports and blinky lights. They buy them for the supportability. As for a business they depend on here network to run and as mprovost mentioned you can take some one cold who has networking experience and If they have half a brain they should be able to fix your network. All Cisco has spawned a whole Eco system of vars who exist throughout the world and can have replacement parts onsite in 4 hours or less. Also Cisco provides code scrubs and a range of other features. So unless some vendor can build these magical switches and provide support they will never be a serious option in any environment.
