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  • Viodi View – 12/31/25

    Viodi View – 12/31/25

    This New Year’s Eve addition of the Viodi View offers a glimpse of CES 2026 through some just-published interviews from CES 2025. The topics range from small modular nuclear reactors to devices that assist the visually impaired to on-demand trash pick-up. Interestingly, none of these stories deal with the consumer gadgets and devices that were…

  • Viodi View – 11/28/25

    Viodi View – 11/28/25

    The word of the day is zoomorphize. It is a word that can be used to describe people’s behavior when interacting with robots. It takes just a few seconds to slip into a world where a robot seems to have lifelike features. This was a recent revelation upon encountering delivery robots on the streets of…

  • Viodi View – 10/25/25

    Viodi View – 10/25/25

    Six continents represented, eight Innovation Demonstrations displayed, and multiple BASe sessions presented are some of the numbers linked to the Broadband Forum’s contributions to the 2025 Network X conference in Paris. The numbers, though, don’t convey the impact of face-to-face events, like Network X. The links below offer a glimpse of the Broadband Forum’s Innovation…

  • Viodi View – 09/28/25

    Viodi View – 09/28/25

    It is a season of conferences. This means that this issue, like the August issue, is largely composed on an airplane. One benefit of conference season is connecting and making memories with friends new and old, in places near and far. Thanks to the Broadband Forum, my employer, for supporting this newsletter. The content, views, and…

  • Viodi View – 08/31/25

    Viodi View – 08/31/25

    “So much has changed, and so little has changed. ” That well-known phrase comes to mind when comparing a recent vacation on water to one from a human generation ago. The addiction to connectivity is the same as it was then. Still, the ease and speed of connection are so much simpler now, thanks to…

  • Viodi View – 07/27/25

    Viodi View – 07/27/25

    Going to an amusement park is a summertime thrill for kids. It was fun to have that feeling again a few weeks ago, as Waymo delivered the back to the future experience that Viodi wrote about some 11 years ago. Read more about this summer highlight below, in the Korner. Thanks to the Broadband Forum, my…