Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor
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Viodi View – 10/29/24
At their best, communities make the individual better and provide true meaning. Breaking bread, sharing the sweat of a hard day’s work, and surmounting the challenges of imperfection are the things that connect humans. Building a community is a challenge. Living in harmonious community is even more challenging. Of course, communities ebb and flow…
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Viodi View – 09/30/24
The personal revelation from writing this issue of the Viodi View is what a blessing it has been to spend my entire career in telecommunications. The employers have come and gone (virtually all of them gone), but the relationships remain. Last week’s SCTE’s TechExpo was a good reminder of how relationships are the true wealth…
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TechExpo Home Coming
SCTE’s TechExpo may be the only thread that links the grand conferences of the past, such as the National and Western Cable shows, with the present and future. The excitement and buzz of the show floor had the feel of those conferences from the days of yore. As much as a show like TechExpo is…
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Viodi View – 08/31/24
From the outside, it was a nondescript modular house oddly planted in the middle of a corporate parking lot.1 Inside was the most impressive 2008-era demonstration of smart home technologies. It provided a tangible vision of what life would be like in the year 2024 and beyond. Thanks to Parks Associates, outsiders, like this author,…
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Viodi View – 07/27/24
Innovation has always been a common theme of the Fiber Broadband Association’s Fiber Connect 2024 conference. The Proof of Concepts at FiberConnect 2024 will show how standards and open broadband software from the Broadband Forum enable innovation and new offerings. Learn more here about the PoCs. Thanks to the Broadband Forum, my employer, for supporting this…
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Community of Innovation – Chandler, AZ
Thinking of the city as a corporation whereby the council serves as a board of directors, setting strategic direction, and ensuring its vision is implemented by city staff is the philosophy of the city of Chandler, Arizona. In the above interview, councilmember Mark Stewart indicates that a big part of its success is its focus…