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Get on Board the STEM Train
It is never too late to start a STEM career is one of the messages imparted by Liz Acosta-McCune, VP of Market Growth and Advocacy for Silver Star Communications. Speaking at the recent WICON event in Boise, Idaho, Acosta-McCune suggested that the ever-evolving technology industry presents new opportunities in many different fields, beyond engineering. Her…
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Silver Star Gains a Broadband Gem in the Treasure Valley
Customers in the Boise metropolitan area, also known as the Treasure Valley, will soon have another option for symmetric gigabit and higher-speed connections to the Internet. Silver Star Communications’ acquisition of Cambridge Telephone Company’s Meridian, Idaho-based, CLEC operations, known as CTC Telecom (CTC), opens the western part of Idaho to this Wyoming-based provider. Silver Star…
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An Opening Conversation about a New Kind of Open Access Network
Jackson, Wyoming will soon be home to an open-access, fiber-to-the-home network (OAN) with a twist. What makes this network, SilverLight, unique is that is privately owned and operated, allowing the citizens of Jackson to receive the benefits of the OAN approach, without the risks of a publicly-built network. As background, the open-access last-mile broadband network…
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Winter-Summer in Jackson Hole
It is somewhat ironic that the world bankers met this week at one of the world’s most beautiful places, amidst a turbulent time in the financial markets. This video provides scenes from the Jackson Hole, Wyoming area. In a sense, this video, which juxtaposes shots filmed in the winter and the summer, is a metaphor for…
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A Comprehensive Risk Assessment Policy and Practice
“We used the framework as a way of guiding how we changed our business operations through the institution of a risk-assessment meeting,” says Jeff England, CFO at Silver Star Communications in the above video. England refers to the NIST cybersecurity framework and how Silver Star used the framework as the basis for formally addressing risk across functions (e.g.…
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Gigabit Broadband – Better than Indoor Plumbing
“We were asked whether we had indoor plumbing,” said Wyoming State Representative Marti Halverson in the above video. She was reflecting on a conversation she had with a reporter at the 2004 Republican Convention. As she points out, not only did they have indoor plumbing, they had high-speed broadband, which was more than the reporter could…
