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Viodi View – 03/08/12
Spring is near and that can only mean one thing; baseball is around the corner. In the sunny climes of Northern California, baseball has been in full swing since January; at least at the youth level. So, what does this have to do with telecommunications companies? Scroll to the bottom to find out the connection…
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From Diamonds to Ringtone, It’s All About Community
To paraphrase former House Speaker Tip O’Neill, all communications is local. On an NTCA webinar a couple of weeks ago, Kent Larson of CHR Solutions made a statement that reinforces this idea, when he said that, “Loops cannot be outsourced.” He made the argument that, to some extent, parts of a telecom operators’ business can…
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ThreeD for DDDummies
[Editor’s note: contact the 3D version of Peter, email him at [email protected]] For some years 3D TV content providers have been seeking overnight success. Heavily researched, beautifully made (mostly cartoon /animated) cinema productions have indeed captivated audiences, and stirred significant investment aimed at bringing the 3D viewing experience into the living room. January’s CES showed…
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TiE SV Panel on Real Time Video- Changing Social and Mobile Communications
Introduction: Started by several Indus entrepreneurs in 1992, TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) is the largest global organization which fosters entrepreneurship. There are 57 chapters in 14 countries, with the TiE-Silicon Valley (SV) chapter being one of the largest. TiE-SV President Vish Mishra set the tone for this March 1st meeting by stating that Naveen Bisht, Chair,…
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MEF Announces Carrier Ethernet 2.0 & Connection Oriented Ethernet for Private Clouds
Introduction: Last week was a very big one for Carrier Ethernet. It marked the launch of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) Carrier Ethernet 2.0 (CE 2.0) and new announcements at the very informative Ethernet Technology Summit in San Jose, CA. While the conference theme was “Ethernet everywhere” (with special emphasis on the Data Center), there…
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Infonetics’ Carrier Switch & Router Forecast; “Carrier Ethernet Market is Booming”
Introduction: On February 23rd, 2012 Infonetics Research released excerpts from its fourth quarter 2011 (4Q11) Service Provider Routers and Switches vendor market share report, which analyzes the IP edge router, IP core router, and carrier Ethernet switch (CES) market segments and the manufacturers within them. That same day Infonetics co-founder & principal analyst Michael Howard led off…
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