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		<title>Viodi View &#8211; 11/09/2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Pyle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minneapolis was the no nonsense setting for last week&#8217;s OPASTCO Technical and Marketing Symposium. What I like about this particular conference is its intimate nature and the way it mixes marketing and technical topics making them relevant for both management and staff. The theme of this conference was, &#8220;Tools to compete in the global economy.&#8221; Chris Purdy of PTCI explained the configuration tool that his company developed that lets customers create custom bundles and see the savings of various options. Similarly, Anita Fledderman of Enhanced Telecommunications explained how their &#8220;You Pick&#8221; bundle, which allows the customer to decide how many of their six services they want to bundle, has helped grow revenue and service penetration. The number of services per subscriber increased thanks to this tool and the revenue per sub went from 2 to 3.75 while the total average revenue went from $60 to $95 per month.&#160; Marketing, Monetizing, &#38; Technical Sides of Video Michael Koons of Cisco discusses how service velocity is an increasingly important factor in a telco&#8217;s ability to remain competitive. He also talks of how the video headend is morphing into a video data center. Michael touched on these points and more as a keynote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Broadband Wireless and the Connected Home:  Telecom Council Meeting Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Weissberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction This article covers the wireless networking aspects of the Connected Home &#8211; both inside and out.&#160;It is primarily based on the Telecom Council&#8217;s[1] May 14, 2009 meeting titled, &#8220;The Connected Home: Services and Models.&#8221;&#160;Trends in delivery of multiple residential services, mobile broadband, home networking, and remote access to the connected home are examined.&#160;We also highlight a few related news items from Sling Media (now Echo Star) and Motorola.&#160; In advance of the meeting, the Telecom Council published the following statement:&#160;&#160; &#34;The PC, the TV, the Internet and the home are converging in a very real way. Real products launched into the market don&#8217;t just blur the lines between TV and PC, but in fact make it increasingly clear that any screen is fair game for any content, and the service will come from both broadcast, uni-cast, and from within the home.&#160;Of course, screens and media are just a part of the Connected Home. Media sharing, photo display, home security, fixed phones, cameras, HVAC control, entry control, family organization and communication, are all becoming inextricably entwined.&#34; While we are skeptical that all the consumer electronics in the home will be connected to each other any time soon, we were aware [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gary Reback: US Government Must Enforce Antitrust Laws to Encourage Innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 02:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Weissberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the need for government intervention in the free market to protect competition and encourage innovation Gary Reback is one of the nation&#8217;s most prominent antitrust attorneys, best known for spearheading the efforts that led to the federal lawsuit against Microsoft.&#160;&#160; Gary spoke to an attentive and eager audience on May 14th in Santa Clara, CA.&#160;&#160; The Commonwealth Club and Yale Club of Silicon Valley sponsored his enlightening and provocative talk.&#160;Reback&#8217;s main message was that the government l&#8217;aissez faire policies, so strongly promoted by University of Chicago economists, have gone way too far.&#160;As a counter-weight, he says we need more government oversight of the private sector along with more vigilant anti-trust enforcement. &#160; To set the stage for the current recessionary economy, Gary began by chronicling the history of the U.S. antitrust movement. From its beginnings in the 1870s (a time when big business controlled the railroads), through Teddy and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Thurmond Arnold and others, there has been an ebb and flow of power and control between the federal government in Washington and big business (e.g. monopolies) or Wall Street investment firms.&#160;Starting about thirty years ago, conservatives forced an overhaul of competition policy that has loosened business rules [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WCA Panel Session: Femtocells and their consequences for Mobile Broadband Technologies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Weissberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Background:&#160; Femtocells are low power 3G/4G cellular base stations which can be thought of as wireless Access Points (AP&#8217;s). Instead of a WiFi Access Point we&#8217;re all familiar with, a femtocell could be a UMTS, CDMA/EVDO, LTE, or Mobile WiMAX Access Point, depending on the underlying mobile network technology.&#160;The bi-directional voice and data traffic is taken off the respective wireless network and placed on the Broadband Internet connection at the home or office.&#160;Femtocell suppliers claim they&#8217;ll be capable of communicating at 3G (HSDPA) and 4G (LTE, mobile WiMAX) speeds, depending on the bandwidth of the broadband Internet connection (which could be a bottleneck). &#160; Femtocells will provide mobile handset and notebook PC coverage in a home or business with typically 2- 4 simultaneously active users.&#160;Picocells are larger APs designed for enterprise use, with higher output power, to handle more simultaneous users.&#160;No changes are required to the handset, notebook PC, or other mobile devices, [the SIM card in a mobile device might be programmed to authenticate the user].&#160;&#160; The residential and enterprise femtocell markets have very different requirements and operators will likely target one of those market segments.&#160;Some carriers see the need for enterprise femtocells creating a bigger market opportunity than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viodi View &#8211; 1/7/09 Issue</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Pyle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we enter the last year of the first decade of the third millennium, it seems like it was just yesterday that we were at the dawn of Y2K. Then we had the big tech meltdown, along with what was the biggest tax cut in history. Here we are again with the start of another year and, in some ways, it feels like we have been here before. Let&#8217;s hope for new opportunities that will help us rise from the ashes of 2008 and make for a better 2009. 2008 &#8211; A Year in Video Roger captures some of the ViodiTV highlights of 2008 in this brief montage of video clips from many of the events we attended this past year. Thanks to Roger for capturing and editing these clips. And thanks to all of the sponsors, who helped make this possible; Badger Communications, Entone, Genesis Technical Systems, HEM Productions, Innovative Systems, Martin Group, NeoNova and Solarus. An Academic Book with a Populist Title &#8211; Useful for Anyone Interested in Pricing or Its Effects What has become a tradition for the first issue of the Viodi View in the New Year is a book review. The book &#8220;Why Popcorn Costs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Cisco Succeed in the Consumer Electronics Business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Weissberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update:&#160;See comment below on Cisco entering the Compute Server Business. Cisco is thought of as a successful&#160;network equipment vendor selling switches and routers to enterprise customers and service providers.&#160;&#160; The company also sells&#160;(Linksys)&#160;WiFi&#160;routers and (Scientific Atlanta) set top boxes for use within&#160;homes.&#160;&#160;Sensing a new opportunity, the company now wants to make significant inroads in the digital home based entertainment market.&#160; At CES next week in Las Vegas, Cisco will announce a new line of products, including a digital stereo system that is meant to move music wirelessly around a&#160;&#160;house.&#160; Sometime later in the year, the company plans to introduce a residential video conferencing system using camera&#8217;s and high-definition televisions (HD TVs). The quality will certainly be much better than today&#8217;s web cam technology, but will consumers be willing to pay for it? Cisco believes that in the near future, all TVs will be connected to home networks, but they don&#8217;t say how (we think it will be wirelessly-perhaps via IEEE 802.11n). Cisco started to pursue the home networking market with Linksys WiFi routers and by acquiring set top box manufacturer Scientific Atlanta which is sold to MSOs. But the CES announcement is an attempt at a much bigger penetration of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verizon CTO on their LTE Rollout and Use of Femtocells in the Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Weissberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to what you&#8217;ve might have read elsewhere, Verizon CTO Dick Lynch did not make a surprise LTE deployment announcement on 12/8/08 at Cisco&#8217; C-Scape conference. What he did say was: &#34;We expect to have LTE in service somewhere in the U.S. around this time next year. We&#8217;ll follow that up almost immediately with LTE to the home using femto-cells, which probably will have WiFi in them.&#34; There was no definite LTE committment from Verizon and no mention of locations or scale for their LTE deployments. A similar statement was made by Link Hoewing, Verizon&#8217;s VP of Internet and Technology Policy, in early October at the US Telecom Association&#8217;s 2nd Annual Executive Business Forum in San Jose, CA. Hoewing stated that Verizon Wireless &#34;plans to roll out LTE in early 2010 with possibily 75M bit/sec downstream rate.&#34; So Lynch&#8217;s LTE statement moves that up a few months, but was not indicative of an accelerated mass deployment. We think the VZW LTE deployment will likely be a very controlled test bed evnironment, limited to one or more select cities. Our rationale: With the LTE standard not completely finished, there aren&#8217;t even any pre-standard LTE devices available yet. Hence, we think it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update on Mobile WiMAX- is it really mobile (or only for wireless fixed line access)?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Weissberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over one year ago, I wrote an article titled: Will the real mobile WiMAX please stand up: http://www.viodi.com/newsletter/061000/article2.pdf The claim then was that IEEE 802.16e (AKA Mobile WiMAX) would be primarily used for fixed line BWA. Not much has changed in the last 18 months. Recently, there&#8217;ve been some encouraging announcements from Clearwire, Digital Bridge , and several overseas wireless service providers.&#160; However, the overwhelming majority of WiMAX deployments continue to be for fixed BWA.&#160; True mobile WiMAX service has been hampered due to several factors: a scarcity of native mode WiMAX devices, developing countries urgent need for fixed BWA, and the uncertainty of mobile VoIP (over mobile WiMAX) availability and roaming. Where are the Native Mode WiMAX devices and MIDs? The WMAX Forum says there are 480 WiMAX devices in development &#8211; by over 80 vendors. But we know of only one native mode WiMAX device &#8211; the Nokia 810 Internet Tablet Computer. We&#8217;ve heard a lot from INTEL about embedded WiMAX in Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), but we haven&#8217;t seen any MIDs hit the market yet. While several notebook PC&#8217;s with embedded WiMAX chip sets have been announced, we don&#8217;t know of any available. Instead, dongle attachments are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cisco Responds to Harsh Business Climate- Plant Closure, HP Competition, WiMAX systems integration</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Weissberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summary: This has been a somewhat of a watershed week for Cisco. By announcing the year end (US and Canadian) office closures the company has acknowledged that its business will be depressed and cost savings is in order. &#160;In addition to the lower sales and earnings forecast, Cisco is facing competition from ProCurve- a fast growing HP business unit that has increased market share in the $20 billion market for local area network and wireless switches. That market provides&#160;the bulk&#160;of Cisco&#8217;s revenues and profits. Cisco is also looking at how it can leverage its server virtualization and automation tool kit to get more business in the nex gen enterprise data center market. Finally, Cisco has entered the systems integration business by agreeing to build a new mobile WiMAX network in Malaysia with YTL e-Solutions Berhad (YTLE), a subsidiary of YTL Corporation Berhad. Under that agreement, Cisco will build and integrate YTLE&#8217;s WiMAX core network &#8211; which includes IP CORE, Operating Support Systems, Billing Systems, Proactive Network Operating Center (PNOC), and Interoperability Testing labs &#8211; to help YTL quickly operationalize and launch new services.&#160; This&#160;type of collaboration&#160;is a change in Cisco&#8217;s business model &#8211; from network equipment provider to systems integrator. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is the market for Carrier Ethernet- metropolitan and/or rural areas?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Weissberger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 25th Update:&#160; Carrier Ethernet Thunder from Light Reading + PBT based Backhaul in SPRINT&#8217;s Xohm Undoubtedly, this piece is intended to promote&#160;Light Reading&#8217;s&#160;Ethernet Expo next month in NYC.&#160; However, it has some useful market share numbers from the leading vendors, e.g. Cisco&#8217;s share has dropped to below 50%, while Alcatel-Lucent is in 2nd place.&#160; Light Reading claims &#34;there has been a thundering of CESR-related product and feature news in recent months.&#34;&#160; Judge for yourself:&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=164629 Provider backbone transport (PBT, also call provider backbone bridging, or PBB) will be used for backhaul in Sprint&#8217;s new Xohm WiMAX network. Sprint is using gear from Ciena (and Clearwire is, too, according to Unstrung).&#160;&#160;In this scenario,&#160;the WiMAX MAC frame&#160;is enveloped in a PBT frame and transported over fiber optic cable.&#160; PBT is&#160;based&#160;on an emerging standard for&#160;IEEE 802.1 &#34;service provider&#34; MAC bridging that has been in the works for many years (I participated in the initial debates in early 2002!).&#160; PBT is an alternative to MPLS-TP (IETF and ITU work in progress)&#160;for a scalable Carrier Ethernet network. &#160; http://www.fiercetelecom.com/story/pbt-earns-backhaul-role-sprints-xohm/2008-09-24?utm_medium=nl&#38;utm_source=internal&#38;cmp-id=EMC-NL-FT&#38;dest=FT &#160; http://www.unstrung.com/document.asp?doc_id=164372 &#160; PBT: Alive &#8216;n&#8217; Kicking The MPLS camp is determined to write PBT&#8217;s obituary. Even former supporters of the controversial Ethernet technology, such [...]]]></description>
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