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  • Viodi View – 03/28/26

    Viodi View – 03/28/26

    Quality of Experience – what does it mean in the context of broadband networks? Does it mean meeting certain technical specifications around attributes like speed, latency, and loss? Does it mean reliability? Or, does it mean other things that are not necessarily technical in nature, but more about basic business building blocks that are measured…

  • When Broadband Speeds and Price Don’t Matter

    When Broadband Speeds and Price Don’t Matter

    This post could be considered an update of a 2004 article, Cable Modem vs. DSL – From the San Francisco Bay to Tampa Bay That article compared DSL to Cable Modem service provisioning in two different locations. This was the era before smart phones, ubiquitous broadband, and TR-069 for remote management of CPE. DSL was…

  • Viodi View – 02/28/26

    Viodi View – 02/28/26

    AI agents create content from the online and real-world zeitgeist. This is one of the epiphanies from a thirty-second music creation experiment. See the Korner for more details on that ViodiTV experiment. But first, we will focus on a key leader in the rural broadband industry. This leader has been prominent for the past couple…

  • Viodi View – 11/28/25

    Viodi View – 11/28/25

    The word of the day is zoomorphize. It is a word that can be used to describe people’s behavior when interacting with robots. It takes just a few seconds to slip into a world where a robot seems to have lifelike features. This was a recent revelation upon encountering delivery robots on the streets of…

  • Viodi View – 07/27/25

    Viodi View – 07/27/25

    Going to an amusement park is a summertime thrill for kids. It was fun to have that feeling again a few weeks ago, as Waymo delivered the back to the future experience that Viodi wrote about some 11 years ago. Read more about this summer highlight below, in the Korner. Thanks to the Broadband Forum, my…

  • Viodi View – 06/29/25

    Viodi View – 06/29/25

    Inspiration: There is something about a face-to-face event, such as last week’s Broadband Forum Summer Meeting and BASe Technical Summit in Munich, that can inspire new ideas. In this case, it was the discovery of a missing link that could potentially turn an old idea into reality. In this case, it could mean a way…