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Those $22,600 W. Virginia routers were "economical"
Congress wants to know how enterprise routers end up in rural libraries.
At a House Energy and Commerce Committee oversight hearing yesterday, Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) wanted to know why the state of West Virginia bought hundreds of $22,000 enterprise-grade routers from Cisco, only to place some of them into tiny rural libraries with a couple computers. Hundreds more sit in warehouses, still awaiting installation.
The routers, each of which can serve a branch office or campus of more than 500 computers, were purchased as part of a $24 million contract paid for with federal stimulus money doled out by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. The state stuck the same Cisco 3945 series router into every public facility on its list, regardless of size. Some needed routers of this size; others could have used models that cost a few hundred dollars.
"It seems pretty disturbing," Walden said.
Those $22,600 W. Virginia routers were "economical"
Congress wants to know how enterprise routers end up in rural libraries.
At a House Energy and Commerce Committee oversight hearing yesterday, Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) wanted to know why the state of West Virginia bought hundreds of $22,000 enterprise-grade routers from Cisco, only to place some of them into tiny rural libraries with a couple computers. Hundreds more sit in warehouses, still awaiting installation.
The routers, each of which can serve a branch office or campus of more than 500 computers, were purchased as part of a $24 million contract paid for with federal stimulus money doled out by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. The state stuck the same Cisco 3945 series router into every public facility on its list, regardless of size. Some needed routers of this size; others could have used models that cost a few hundred dollars.
"It seems pretty disturbing," Walden said.
