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Residents of Eight Minnesota Counties to Receive State-of-the-Art Broadband, Jobs, Thanks to USDA and the Recovery Act

June 08, 2011 Nikki Gillespie, Minnesota USDA Rural Development Intern

April marked an important month for northeastern Minnesotans. Ground was broken to mark the beginning of a three-year project to supply high-speed broadband access across eight counties and surrounding of the Arrowhead region of Minnesota. The project was funded through the American Recovery and...

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USDA Participates in World IPv6 Day

June 07, 2011 John Walter, Program Manager, USDA, OCIO, NITC

The Internet is running out of it's 4.3 billion Internet addresses! No fear, for IPv6 is here! IPv6 is a new version of internet addressing that will replace the current IPv4 version. The new IPv6 format will allow for 340 undecillion addresses compared to 4.3 billion addresses under IPv4. The last...

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