In the End, It’s Always the Almonds and Whipped Cream
Proposals for upgrading phone lines, wireless networks and fire walls for the federal government are to be awarded this week.
Can you imagine the specification? Retro-fitting the IT of a single office building is a daunting job in this cyber age.
The governmental moniker is Networx Universal and it’s a kind of cute misspelling, proving that even bureaucrats are hip and have a sense of humor. They’ll need it, as will the Congress when this thing goes off track. Proposals for upgrading phone lines, wireless networks and fire walls for the federal government are to be awarded this week.
Can you imagine the specification? Retro-fitting the IT of a single office building is a daunting job in this cyber age. The complexity of rewiring approximately 445,000 federally owned buildings with total floor space of over three billion square feet, as well as 57,000 leased buildings, comprising another 374 million square feet of floor space--all of it under one authority--simply boggles the mind.
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