Category: Technology
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Jump Starting Mobility Efficiency
Silicon Valley may need to change its name to Mobility Valley, judging by the number of startups and established players that are planting roots in this tech center. In the above interview, John Boesel, president and CEO of CALSTART, points to a few of his members – Tesla, Proterra (electric buses) and Motiv Power Systems (electric drive trains) – as examples of…
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2016 Open Networking Summit: Open Source Rules, But Are There Too Many Choices?
Introduction: For its first few years, the Open Networking Summit (ONS) focused on pure SDN – strict separation of control and data planes, centralized SDN controller computing routes for hundreds of “packet forwarding engines” in its domain and OpenFlow as the southbound API/protocol used between control and data planes. Overlay networks (a logical network mapped…
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Google Fiber’s Slow Rollout & Pole Access Challenges
Introduction: Google Fiber1 had only 53,390 TV customers as of Dec. 31,2015, according to U.S. Copyright Office data published in a recent MoffettNathanson report. Furthermore, growth in subscribers is slowing. The report said that Google Fiber’s video customer base grew by 79 percent over the previous year. It grew at 136 percent for the last…
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Tech as the New Mobility Status Symbol
“We are entering a time when price and size get decoupled,” says Mark Platshon, Senior Advisor of BMW i Ventures in the above video filmed at the Joint Venture Silicon Valley 2016 State of the Valley Conference. Platshon was referring to the idea that today’s buyers are increasingly looking to technology to improve the mobility experience and value that…
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Once in a Generation Opportunity
A once in a generation opportunity is how Stefan Heck characterizes the changes to the built-environment, thanks to ACES. ACES – Autonomous, Connected, Electrified and Shared – is the acronym that Heck – CEO and Co-Founder, NAUTO, and Consulting Professor, Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University – invented to describe the convergence of different technologies that will transform…
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An Opportunity to Be a Model for the Rest of the World
The Joint Venture Silicon Valley (JVSV) 2016 State of the Valley Conference painted a picture of an extremely prosperous region, as shown by its high median income of $98,535 and housing prices with a median price of $830,000. As is common knowledge in Silicon Valley, this prosperity causes an “affordability” issue for the significant number of people on the…