Viodi View – The Bridge Between the Heartland and Silicon Valley

Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor

  • Viodi View – 04/22/13

    Viodi View – 04/22/13

    You can’t rely on the Federal Government or Google to build your broadband for you. That was a common sentiment at last week’s 2013 Broadband Communities Summit. Whether Democrat or Republican, better broadband seems to be a bipartisan cause that all can get behind. We had some great interviews with leaders from communities and industry…

  • ViodiTV on Channel 2 Broadband Communities

    ViodiTV on Channel 2 Broadband Communities

    ViodiTV is currently playing on channel 2 of the Intercontinental’s in-room cable television system. Thank you to Matrix Design Group and M3 Multifamily Media Management, LLC for making this year’s coverage possible. Thanks to Broadband Communities for supporting Viodi at their very important event, which features speakers from telecom operators, suppliers, property owners, investors, regulators…

  • Viodi View – 04/08/13

    Viodi View – 04/08/13

    Are Google’s fiber networking efforts a small part of something that is much bigger; something that even Google may not be able to envision? That’s the impression I got from listening to a recent presentation from Google’s Milo Medin. Perhaps the network becomes a central nervous system for the sensors and machines that become part…

  • Google Fiber – A Step Function Connectivity Improvement

    Google Fiber – A Step Function Connectivity Improvement

    A step function improvement in capability is how Milo Medin described Google’s Kansas City fiber project at the February 13th IEEE ComSoc meeting in Santa Clara. That huge improvement in customer experience is in contrast to the incremental gains of MSO [Multiple System Operator] and telco broadband networks, which have much lower access speeds. Medin, who…

  • Viodi View – 04/01/13

    Viodi View – 04/01/13

    The costs of programming have risen faster than the prices MVPDs (Multichannel Video Program Distributors) charge their customers, according to an article posted by nScreenMedia’s, Colin Dixon. Dixon reviewed financial filings from several large program distributors (Comcast, DirecTV and Time Warner) and found that revenues for these large providers have not kept apace with costs…

  • Viodi View – 03/21/13

    Viodi View – 03/21/13

    Who is your mentor? This question was posed the other day to a cable luminary and got me thinking of my many influences; Don, Aloha, Sue, Terri, Bruce, Mr. Bremmer, Tom, John, Daryl, Jerry, Gilles, Norman, Dutch, Roger, Mark; way too many to mention. But the one who is top of mind and the inspiration for this…