Scott Goldman

Holiday robocall (and robotext) scams are still out there, even if overall volume of robocalls has declined. Thanks to KTVU 2 for letting us help educate folks in the SF Bay Area on what to watch out for and how to protect themselves.

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Proud of the value and flexible solutions the Althea team and products are delivering in private cellular to our partners. Many MNO and private 5G vendors are only able to offer a rigid set of hardware, but the flexible, software defined nature of #KeyLTE/5G, Althea's billing, and spectrum options like Globalstar #Band53, we can put together the right solution for the job. This yields real results, at nearly half the cost of other solutions: The result? 🔗 100% uptime 💸 0.06% error rate 📈 Doubled revenue for some vendors

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Digital Age Assurance Act Claims its First Victim. MidnightBSD Modifies License to Exclude California Residents Effective 2027 Over Age Verification Mandates. Full details here: https://lnkd.in/ghTJziPa #MidnightBSD #DigitalAgeAssuranceAct #AB1043 #California #BSD #Unix #Announcement #Policy

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Implementing rigorous fiscal oversight within the 21 billion dollar ACP Extension Act represents a pivotal opportunity to modernize the technical frameworks of American telecommunications. By transitioning toward an audited model, we can address the legacy bureaucratic hurdles that often stall infrastructure projects. This approach encourages the standardization of site acquisition and zoning protocols, ensuring that capital is deployed toward physical assets rather than being dissipated by administrative friction and municipal delays. The emphasis on accountability directly facilitates the streamlining of permitting and regulatory compliance. Current initiatives are targeting "shot clocks" that mandate review timelines of 60 to 90 days, significantly accelerating the deployment of fiber and small cell technology. Reducing procedural bottlenecks regarding NEPA and right of way access ensures that technical milestones are achieved with greater precision, which is essential for maintaining the momentum of national connectivity. Ultimately, a lean and transparent funding structure fosters a stable landscape for long term private investment and technical innovation. By resolving long standing obstacles in the infrastructure lifecycle, we build a resilient digital backbone capable of meeting future capacity demands. This focus on efficiency and fiscal sanity ensures that our national infrastructure build out remains sustainable and results oriented. #BroadbandInfrastructure #Telecommunications #RegulatoryReform #SiteAcquisition #FiscalAccountability

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🚀 Press Release: The Besen Group Releases MVNO Case Study Featuring Starlink Mobile 🚨 Washington, D.C., March 3, 2026 (EINPresswire) -- The Besen Group, an international mobile data industry management consulting practice headquartered in the Washington DC area, with representatives in Paris and Tokyo, today announced the release of the mobile industry’s first new MVNO case study featuring Starlink Mobile.   “Becoming an MVNO is a natural extension of Starlink Mobile’s mission to deliver connectivity everywhere,” said Alex Besen, Founder and CEO of The Besen Group LLC. “By combining its satellite network with terrestrial spectrum and mobile wholesale partnerships, Starlink Mobile will create a hybrid MVNO model that expands coverage, improves resilience, and brings mobile connectivity to places traditional networks have struggled to reach.”     The MVNO case study includes:   ➡️ Satellite Market Research   ➡️ Starlink Direct-to-Cell Service   ➡️ Starlink Mobile MVNO Strategy   ➡️ Starlink Mobile MVNO Target Segments based on 5 Year Forecast   ➡️ Starlink Mobile MVNO Business Case based on 5 Year Forecast             ➡️ Starlink Mobile MVNO SWOT Analysis   The Besen Group offers the case study on a corporate license basis in PowerPoint PDF format. The license fee includes a one-hour telephone consultation with a senior wireless analyst to review the market research findings, business case and SWOT analysis.    ❗ The cover page of the MVNO case study can be downloaded at: https://lnkd.in/eCqiEW-X   📫 For any questions or license information, please send an email with contact details including name, title, company name, phone number to mvno@thebesengroup.com.   The Besen Group offers strategic advisory, business development, market research and training services to MVNOs, MVNEs, MVNAs and HNOs.   The following documents can be downloaded for more information and review:   1️⃣ MVNO Service Portfolio: https://lnkd.in/eJ5P86G8 2️⃣ MVNE Service Portfolio: https://lnkd.in/eRCps5iK 3️⃣ HNO Service Portfolio: https://lnkd.in/eUeAqe5J   🌏 About The Besen Group (www.thebesengroup.com) The Besen Group is an international management consulting practice to the mobile data industry headquartered in the Washington DC area, with representatives in Paris and Tokyo. Its mission is to provide mobile data players with tools, knowledge, and services enabling them to perform optimally in their mobile environment. The Besen Group’s competitive edge is based on practical experience with mobile operators, mobile vendors, and a mobile data laboratory. To view the press release on EINPresswire's website, please visit: https://lnkd.in/eFAgMMqv #MVNO #Satellite #D2D #D2C #Mobile

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At #NANOG95, Rene Santiago from Ezee Fiber shared their network design for an active/active CGNAT aka Large Scale NAT appliance pair. I use the term CGNAT here, but Rene suggests that LSN and CGNAT are interchangeable. For brevity, let’s assume you know the reasons you need to deploy CGNAT and are aware that some of the historical complaints of CGNAT’s impact to subscribers have been addressed. Let’s move to the core problem Rene addresses. How do you get traffic from the subscriber to the CGNAT appliance and back? There are many industry approaches Rene discussed. You can use a dedicated L2 network, PBR hop by hop (if you’re brave, as it’s labor intensive), multi-VRF routing (what Rene sees frequently deployed), PBR at the border only where the cluster sits (easy to implement for small operators, hard if you are large and have geographic spread), and pseudowire headend with PBR. While Rene was aware of all of these existing solutions, his requirements were for simplicity, no VRFs, scalability, minimal touchpoints, resiliency, and a centralized solution. Why centralized? He needed a strategic location where, for an active/active deployment, he could have all the NAT states sync between the CGNAT devices. This is what Rene came up with. As quickly as he was moving, I couldn’t capture all the details of which there were many. Here’s what I got! Traffic flows from the subscriber to the Internet… 1. PBR at the edge router. Look at the source IP, and point it to the anycast loopback the routers are advertising. Add the appropriate SR label. 2. Route it to the core using SR and pop the label (PHP). 3. PBR at the core routers looking at the source IP so it goes towards the appliances and not the Internet. 4. NAT and native routing. Traffic is NATted by the CGNAT appliance and then routed to the Internet. Return traffic… 1. Route to the appliance where it’s unNATted. 2. Send it back to the edge router via SR. Then natively forward it back to the subscriber. Rene described the active/active CGNAT appliance architecture… 1. Split a block in half, where one loopback is anycast for the first half, and a second loopback for the second half. Each appliance is standby for the other appliance’s active half. 2. Balance the load and have failover via IS-IS metrics. Add a weight of 1000 to the opposite sides. 3. Use PBR to steer traffic to the CGNAT appliance that owns a given half. Rene then talked through the routing that happens during failure scenarios. For example… 1. What happens when you lose an uplink to one of the core routers? 2. What happens when you lose one of the active/active CGNAT appliances? 3. What happens when you lose the state mirroring/VRRP link (split-brain) between the CGNAT appliances? 4. What happens when you force a single appliance to be active for both halves? (You have to update the IS-IS metrics so that routing is correct in Rene’s architecture.)

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I’ve met David Schaeffer, the founder and CEO of Cogent Communications, a few times over the years. In those interactions, Dave always came across as brilliant - measured in tone, armed with precise statistics, and deeply analytical. He could confidently explain a complex capital structure, including the securitization of IP address assets, and offer thoughtful prognostications about long-term internet usage and declining unit costs. For years, Dave expressed skepticism about owning fiber and data center infrastructure, arguing that such assets were commodities and easily sourced. Then Cogent acquired from T-Mobile Sprint’s legacy assets for $1, including aging fiber routes and obsolete telco data centers. That’s why the news this summer that Dave had purchased Washington, D.C. real estate, pledging his Cogent shares as collateral to lever office buildings and that the shares were ultimately seized by lenders following a margin call was so jarring. It was a remarkable, and frankly sad, story to hear relayed in real time. With Cogent stock down roughly 70% over the past 18 months, it is hard not to conclude that the combination of a collapsing share price and a deteriorating office real estate market proved catastrophic. Since Dave’s mea culpa, the stock is down further, and the company slashed its quarterly dividend by about 98%, reducing it from roughly $1.02 per share to just $0.02 per share. This week we learned that Cogent’s Board amended Dave’s employment agreement to grant substantial new equity awards, extend his term through 2028, and introduce a $1,000,000 base salary, despite his long-standing practice of being compensated primarily through dividends tied to his equity ownership. After cutting the dividend, Dave is now paid a salary and bonus; after losing a significant portion of his stock in a margin call tied to bad real estate decisions, the company is now issuing him new equity.   Only in America.  https://lnkd.in/gpGc_Jxe

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Most AHJs only care about survivability and not if the actual system works! This needs to change! Coverage gains mean nothing if they come at the expense of interference, noise floor issues, or degraded system performance elsewhere. This is exactly why coordination, modeling, and real RF engineering matter. You can’t treat each building as a standalone box and assume compliance equals performance. Public safety systems have to coexist, not compete. Appreciate David Adams calling this out. It’s a reminder that doing this work correctly requires thinking beyond the immediate project and designing for the environment as a whole.

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Behind the Connection | IP Peering Fabrics: Key Part of The Backbone of Our Connected World As NANOG 94 takes place this week in Denver, we’re reflecting on a foundational pillar of the internet—IP peering fabrics—and how they’re essential to enabling the scale, speed, and resilience of the Connected World. 🔌 What Are IP Peering Fabrics? IP peering fabrics are critical infrastructures where networks interconnect to exchange traffic directly. Companies like DE-CIX —a global leader in internet exchanges and sponsor of Connected World Live—enable thousands of networks to connect efficiently, securely, and with minimal latency. By removing the need for more costly transit and optimizing traffic routing, peering fabrics: -Lower latency and costs -Increase redundancy and availability -Support high-bandwidth applications like cloud services, streaming, and IoT -Enable more efficient and scalable growth across regions 🌍 Why It Matters for the Ecosystem In today’s ecosystem-led world, connectivity isn't just about physical paths—it’s about how networks collaborate, route traffic, and interoperate at speed. Peering fabrics are a critical part of how we deliver that promise. DE-CIX does this across dozens of metros worldwide, anchoring the performance of content networks, ISPs, and cloud providers. 📦 Larus : Powering Global IP Address Availability As networks grow, so does the need for scalable IP address infrastructure. Larus, a valued Connectbase ecosystem partner, helps solve this by providing IPv4 and IPv6 addresses at scale to networks and enterprise clients around the world—supporting edge deployments, CDN scale-outs, and enterprise expansion. 🛠️ Connectbase Launches IPAM To tie it all together, we’re proud to announce the release of the Connectbase IP Address Management (IPAM) module—a powerful new capability for managing IP resources across your network ecosystem. With our IPAM, providers can: Track and assign IP blocks with ease Manage usage by location, customer, or service Automate and streamline how IP inventory is governed 🔗 Read more about the launch here: https://lnkd.in/es2-B5rX 🚀 In a world where everything is becoming more connected, the convergence of peering fabrics, IP provisioning, and intelligent management tools shapes the next generation of growth of the Connected World. #BehindTheConnection #NANOG94 #IPPeering #Larus #Connectbase #IPAM #ConnectivityInfrastructure #NetworkAutomation #ConnectedWorld #connectivitymatters

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