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Olympusat Aims to Be YouTube for the Enterprise
Olympusat Holdings, a long time provider of video distribution for family, faith, speciality and Spanish-language cable networks, recently announced that it is expanding its focus to include the enterprise market via its Olympusat Telecom division. Through a mix of partnerships that cover content ingest, asset management, encoding, ad insertion, hosting, distribution and last mile access, Olympusat Telecom…
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Viodi View – 08/24/12
Same stuff, different day is the cleaned up song title that comes to mind when reviewing some of our recent interviews with folks who bring a bit of an international flavor to this issue of the Viodi View. Whether it is access to content on terms that are comparable to what can be had by…
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Telecom Death Spiral Continues with ZTE’s Steep Profit Drop
Sluggish telecom operator infrastructure spending, mobile device price wars and roadblocks in several western markets have all combined to cause China’s ZTE to report an 85% drop in profits (year over year) in the latest quarter that ended in June. Net earnings for the first half dropped 68 per cent to Rmb245m, in line with a warning issued last…
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Viodi View – 08/10/12
Call Me – You Might Have to Call Again If I Live in Rural America Trying to make a simple phone call last week presented a bit of a challenge in rural North Dakota. There was a delay – a long delay, like I was making an international call some 30 years ago. There might…
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Infonetics Microwave Survey: NEC still leads but Ericsson gets high marks by network operators!
In its new Microwave Strategies and Vendor Leadership: Global Service Provider Survey, Infonetics Research explores operators’ deployment plans and perceptions of microwave equipment suppliers. In market share, NEC held the lead in equipment revenue for the first quarter of 2012 with 20%, just ahead of Ericsson; Huawei was 3rd (see pie chart). “As the microwave equipment…
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Viodi View – 07/27/12
Is there a rainbow peeking out of the clouds that points to a brighter day or do today’s clouds lead to a fog bank of chaos? Although there is a great deal of uncertainty in the telecom space, which is manifesting itself through cautious capital expenditures, two things are clear; improving efficiency of operations and finding new…
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