Cisco is assembling wireless and wireline partners to help it secure a share of the USA’s various funding schemes to bring broadband connectivity to rural areas. On the wireless side, Cisco has teamed up with MuralNet, a non-profit organization that helps indigenous communities build and operate their own broadband networks. Together, the two organizations have launched the Sustainable Tribal Network program, helping tribal communities to deploy fixed wireless access (FWA) in areas where there is no broadband, or where they want an alternative to privately provided services. MuralNet has developed a network-in-a-box that can connect up to 25 homes for less than $15,000. With Cisco’s help, it aims to take advantage of the FCC’s ‘Tribal Priority Window’. This was announced…