Viodi View – The Bridge Between the Heartland and Silicon Valley

  • Viodi View – 10/26/11

    Viodi View – 10/26/11

    Making the complex simple was perhaps Steve Jobs greatest legacy. Unfortunately, most of the tools intended to make life easier, actually make things more difficult and detract from what we are trying to accomplish. Too often, what should be a simple task of connecting to the mobile Internet or printing a document turns into a…

  • XO Communications Leads Competitive Carrier Upsurge in Business Ethernet Services

    Introduction Business customers are buying Ethernet services from legacy and competitive carriers as well as from MSOs.  Cost effective performance, simplicity of operations, scalability and the ability to use the same access technology as in the enterprise LAN are somme of the reasons for this uptake.  In addition to the extra bandwidth and the variety of…

  • Viodi View – 10/12/11

    Viodi View – 10/12/11

    The forces of creative destruction unleashed by the combination of broadband and computing power have transformed virtually every industry in the past 20 years.  Two closely intertwined sectors, government and education, have been relatively untouched through this time of tumult. A growing chorus from a variety of groups indicates that at least the education part…

  • Role of Telecommunications & Benefits of Cloud Computing (ITU-T FG Cloud)

    Editors Note:  This article is based entirely on the October 7, 2011 ITU-T FG Cloud document “Cloud Benefits” which is based on their recent meeting in Seoul, South Korea.  We have not provided any editorial content or opinion on this work in progress.  The article is provided as further background information for the October 12th IEEE ComSocSCV…

  • Cloud Networking- Provider & Vendor Perspective- at IEEE ComSocSCV Oct 12 meeting!

    Introduction In a pure Public Cloud based model, applications reside in a multi-tenant environment and are accessible via the public Internet. Amazon’s EC2  is an example of such a Public Cloud.  Yet there are concerns about security, privacy, failure recovery and performance when using the public Internet to deliver Cloud Compute and Storage services. In…

  • Viodi View – 09/28/11

    Viodi View – 09/28/11

    If there are a thousand stories in the naked city, how many are there in the country?  As we travel the upper Midwest this week, Roger and I are finding many stories from the heartland.  A recurring theme from talking to folks in the rural areas is that local presence is the key to meeting…