Category: Viodi View

  • Will accelerating Internet traffic growth produce a bandwidth famine? Is congestion slowing down your Internet experience?

    Yesterday, I read a very thought provoking article in Broadband Properties magazine (I have a print sub).  It stimulated my thinking on Internet bandwidth growth and network congestion. I have recently been keenly aware of how long it is taking some web pages to load and I can only attribute that to Internet congestion (probably caused…

  • Monitoring Goes Home

    One of the best things about the Connections Conference is the quantity and quality of primary research data presented by Parks Associates. Tricia Parks, Founder and CEO of Parks Associates, gave a speech titled, The Consumer Purchase Process – Evolution and Curved Roads, in which she provided an overview of some of their primary research regarding…

  • Battle of the Network CTOs?

    Actually, the discourse between Mark

  • Obscenity on ABC, Advertising on PBS, H.R. 6320 – Regulation of Broadband TV on the Horizon?

    The inspiration for this article was a decision a few months ago by the FCC to slap a huge fine on ABC Affiliates for violating obscenity rules in airing an episode of “NYPD”.   The FCC Order, although extremely descriptive about the nudity, sparked my curiosity.  "………The camera shot includes a full view of her buttocks…

  • Signs of the Video Times

    The signs of the changing video landscape were literally signs in the case of these photos I snapped yesterday. The demise of Bradley Video, a once strong independent video store in Silicon Valley, is an indication that the traditional brick and mortar approach to renting and selling videos is quickly being substituted for other means of…

  • Slightly Off the Beaten Path

    I remember clear as yesterday a conversation I had with an unassuming World War II veteran sometime in the late 1990s. We were at an Atlanta steakhouse during one of the many Supercomms (e.g. the predecessor to NXTcomm) in that fair city. He explained to me how he was part of a commissioning crew on a submarine…