Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor
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The National Broadband Plan Was Top of Mind
It is only two years ago that the talk of the MTA’s Annual Convention was the stimulus and last year the buzz was about the broadband plan that was one of the outcomes of the stimulus legislation. This year, talk kept coming back to implementation of the broadband plan. Bill Hegmann, Chairman of NECA, provided an…
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Broadband Reform and More – Ch 16 & 40
Day 2 of ViodiTV at MTA Is on the air. In order to see this exclusive video coverage, you have to be at this event and staying at the convention hotels. Today, we have interviews with Bill Hegmann of NECA talking about the broadband plan, Mike Romano of NTCA calling for broadband operators to tell…
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ViodiTV is On at MTA – Ch 16 & 40
We just gave tonight’s ViodiTV program to the hotel to run on its internal channel. We have a collection of material from previous MTA events, as well as some favorites from recent shows and an interview with Everett Christensen talking about his book “60-40 or Fight.” Tomorrow night, we will air the second part of…
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Support and Warm Messages
This is from a friend who is in Japan – “Please pray for Japan and efforts my fellow workers are making to restore nuclear reactors’ safety. And please tell everyone that many Japanese engineers and workers are fighting and will never give it up. Supports and warm messages from people in America and other foreign…
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Viodi View – 03/16/2011
“If you haven’t seen it, then it is new to you.” Something like that was a tag line from NBC around a decade ago touting their summer line-up of reruns. That was in the days before DVRs became ubiquitous and appointment television still ruled the day for the masses. In those days, the PC might…
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Status & Future Directions for Communications Industry – 3/9/11 ComSoC Meeting
IEEE ComSocSCV has assembled a power panel of five telecom/photonics/networking industry experts to present and discuss the status, trends, and future directions of the “Network” in each of their subject areas. Included will be: the Mobile Broadband Operator’s Dilemma (and techniques to solve it), Photonics, Optical Components & Networks, DSL and evolution of high-speed Internet…