Viodi View – The Bridge Between the Heartland and Silicon Valley

Category: Viodi View

  • Viodi View – 12/22/15

    Viodi View – 12/22/15

    Google Spurring FTTH Deployment in the Former Valley of the Heart’s Delight After reading through a 200+ page, Google Fiber commissioned Draft Initial Study, it’s no wonder that Google’s Milo Medin stated in 2013 that Google wouldn’t come to California as long as CEQA was in place. The design of a Fiber to the Home network…

  • Viodi View – 12/02/15

    Viodi View – 12/02/15

    Is there another way to fund rural broadband? That question has rattled around in my head for 11 years, which is when I penned an article suggesting a fee on every device with a MAC ID as an alternative way to fund Universal Service. As mentioned in the previous issue of the Viodi View, a combination of…

  • Viodi View – 11/06/15

    Viodi View – 11/06/15

    It was a simple question from a Viodi View reader, “What are you going to write about the conference?” I had been so busy filming videos for others that I hadn’t given much thought to all the buzz I had heard. I figured I better get a couple of interviews, which I could play on ViodiTV. Still,…

  • Viodi View – 10/24/15

    Viodi View – 10/24/15

    It’s always a treat when a global organization brings their annual confab to my hometown, the capital of Silicon Valley. The ironic thing is that I spent more time looking for parking, than I did commuting to the recent WBA Global Congress. Parking is one of the issues that the Wireless Broadband Alliance hopes to address as…

  • Viodi View – 10/10/15

    Viodi View – 10/10/15

    The Silicon Valley start-up scene is dynamic; meaning that more start-ups fail than achieve commercial success. Unlike its early roots, Silicon Valley companies that do succeed are typically angel or venture-backed and, as a result, the focus is often on “the exit”. Rare is the Silicon Valley company that manages to grow into an international…

  • Viodi View – 09/26/15

    Viodi View – 09/26/15

    Until I begin using robotic telepresence, like the women who used it outside the Apple store this week, it won’t be possible to be in two places at once. A robotic telepresence would have been useful this week, as that would have allowed me to attend NTCA’s Fall Conference. Fortunately, we caught up with an industry…