Category: Optical Networking
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New Sponsor Brings a Career Twist
The sponsor for this and future issues of the Viodi View and ViodiTV is the Broadband Forum. For those not familiar with the Broadband Forum (BBF), the mission of this 25+-year-old non-profit “is to unlock the potential for new markets and profitable revenue growth by leveraging new technologies and standards in the home, intelligent small…
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Re-Bundling, WFH, Inflation, Workforce & More Tidbits from Fiber Connect 2022
[The following is a lightly edited @viodi series of tweets from the Tuesday morning general session of the Fiber Broadband Association’s Fiber Connect 2022.] Re-Bundling Opportunity? “People on average are using about 9 video [over-the-top] services,” says @TiVo‘s Kevin Lenhart.1 Although most seem satisfied, there seems to be an undercurrent of those surveyed by TiVo…
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DC5G 2018 Conference Offers Primer on Benefits and Challenges of 5G Deployment
Nearly 300 attendees gathered in Washington, D.C. November 12 and 13 for the second annual DC5G Conference. With no shortage of announcements of initial and planned launches of various versions of 5G service cropping up among major service providers (for example, AT&T and Verizon), the conference took a comprehensive view of how the 5G marketplace…
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Non-Board OCP Equipment Purchases Top $1.2B in 2017; 5 year CAGR forecast of 59%
Executive Summary: The OCP (Open Compute Project) commissioned IHS Markit to do a market study of who, besides OCP Board members, were using OCP specified hardware and to estimate/forecast the resulting revenue. Also, to identify concerns and barriers to successful deployments. Cliff Grossner, Ph.D. Sr. Research Director & Advisor Cloud & Data Center Research Practice…
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New Nokia Faces Competition & Challenges from Software Megatrend – Part 1
Introduction: On December 2nd, Nokia shareholders overwhelmingly approved the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent . The only remaining full service telecom equipment company in either North America or Europe is being sold to Nokia in a 15.6 billion Euro (€) deal which could make the “new Nokia” a market leader in network equipment and cloud services for…
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Competition for the New Nokia – Part 2
[Editor’s Note: To see part 1 of this article, click this link.] In addition to Huawei, which is also a global leader in smart phones, the new Nokia will surely face competition from the recently announced partnership between Cisco and Ericsson in which the companies will jointly develop new products for telecom and cloud service…
