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Rolland holding ethernet cabling

While KNOM has no official IT Manager amongst our staff positions, you’d never know it with the thorough, dedicated volunteer work of intrepid chief engineer Rolland Trowbridge.

Ethernet cablingAs we go to press, Rolland’s latest improvement project at KNOM is to re-route and re-organize our office building’s ethernet cabling: the wiring our staff uses to access the internet. In Nome, where internet speeds are perhaps a decade or more behind those of the Lower 48, every improvement in our infrastructure helps. Thank you, Rolland!

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This article is part of the October 2013 edition of our newsletter, The Nome Static.

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