Australia has reasonably strong money laundering laws. Australia also has quite strong financial tracking via AUSTRAC and the big four banks. Do you have any sources?
This would get really bad rain fade at 80GHz or even on a humid day the speed would back off a lot. You need to run a lower frequency backup link in parallel.
The author mentions he keeps his money in a foreign bank that I presume the MA department of revenue cannot get at. Does anyone have any recommendations of overseas banks that are easy to open accounts with without travelling to said country.
People don't buy Cisco just for the box with ports and blinky lights. They buy them for the supportability. As for a business they depend on here network to run and as mprovost mentioned you can take some one cold who has networking experience and If they have half a brain they should be able to fix your network. All Cisco has spawned a whole Eco system of vars who exist throughout the world and can have replacement parts onsite in 4 hours or less. Also Cisco provides code scrubs and a range of other features. So unless some vendor can build these magical switches and provide support they will never be a serious option in any environment.