Category: Viodi View

  • Viodi View – 11/30/24

    Viodi View – 11/30/24

    Are websites a metaphor for human life? Does the baggage associated with maintenance, sap the energy required to create new content? The long and short of it is that if you can’t read these words on the Viodi website, there is still an issue with excessive Inode (Index-node) usage. Just like natural human wear and…

  • Viodi View – 10/29/24

    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…

  • Viodi View – 09/30/24

    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…

  • Viodi View – 08/31/24

    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,…

  • Viodi View – 07/27/24

    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…

  • Viodi View – 06/29/24

    Viodi View – 06/29/24

    The beginning of this month marks a decade since the publication of my fictional story of what the year 2040 might look like, because of shared, electrified, and autonomous mobility. In 2024, the autonomous vehicle space still feels like the early days of broadband or Video on Demand (VOD). As has been written before, at…