50 BILLION!? Like with a “B”? The highest end 24 port switch and router is around $500 and $300 respectively. Let’s just round that up to $1000 each to make it wven more expensive. Plus $1000 to do the install work for those two devices (which would be highway robbery). Let’s say every single airport needs 100 each of these switch and router sets, which is also a ridiculous number. That is $200,000 per airport of were are overstocking and overpaying for routers and switches. For $1 Billion, then, you could fully supply and install 100 sets of brand new switches and routers to 5000 airports. There are only 3287 airports under the FAA’s National Plan flof Integrate Airport Systems. So let’s say the other 1713 airports worth is used in military airports, even though that is outside the FAA preview. So… where is the other $49 Billion going!?
That is such a ridiculously huge unrealistic number. There is no way that, if granted, this will just be used to line the pockets of some Billionaire donor(s) or friend of Duffy and/or Trump.
NOTE: My wife, who supplies technology needs to law firms for a living said that she might actually estimate the cost to upgrade routers and switches per airport at 500,000 each due to square footage. And maybe double that if they’re upgrading dedicated internet circuits too. So her absolutely highest dollar is $1 million per airport. That’s still only $3.3 billion. $46.7 billion still unaccounted for.
50 BILLION!? Like with a “B”? The highest end 24 port switch and router is around $500 and $300 respectively. Let’s just round that up to $1000 each to make it wven more expensive. Plus $1000 to do the install work for those two devices (which would be highway robbery). Let’s say every single airport needs 100 each of these switch and router sets, which is also a ridiculous number. That is $200,000 per airport of were are overstocking and overpaying for routers and switches. For $1 Billion, then, you could fully supply and install 100 sets of brand new switches and routers to 5000 airports. There are only 3287 airports under the FAA’s National Plan flof Integrate Airport Systems. So let’s say the other 1713 airports worth is used in military airports, even though that is outside the FAA preview. So… where is the other $49 Billion going!?
That is such a ridiculously huge unrealistic number. There is no way that, if granted, this will just be used to line the pockets of some Billionaire donor(s) or friend of Duffy and/or Trump.
NOTE: My wife, who supplies technology needs to law firms for a living said that she might actually estimate the cost to upgrade routers and switches per airport at 500,000 each due to square footage. And maybe double that if they’re upgrading dedicated internet circuits too. So her absolutely highest dollar is $1 million per airport. That’s still only $3.3 billion. $46.7 billion still unaccounted for.