Wisconsin Agency Backs E-rate Support for Network Security

E-rate support for broadband won’t matter in a security breach, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction said in a Tuesday letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai posted in docket 13-184. The state agency supported Cisco’s waiver petition to permit schools and libraries to use E-rate Category Two funding for network security costs (see 2009080026). Granting a waiver for the 2020 program year might be tricky, but the FCC could grant Cisco’s petition for 2021 and seek comments on a waiver for 2022, the department said.