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  • Highlights of Sprint Developers Conference: Oct 26-28, 2010 Santa Clara, CA

    Disclaimer:  Unlike all other Viodi View articles, this one will refrain from the analysis, insight, inferences and comments that this author is noted for.  Instead, that content is being provided exclusively on the IEEE ComSocSCV Discussion mail list.  Instructions for IEEE members to join are at the bottom of www.comsocscv.org.  We will not offer opinions here or…

  • Wild Rice and Fall Snow

    Wild Rice and Fall Snow

    It was chilly and snowy outside, but there were many hot ideas on how to attract customers at the Minnesota Telecom Alliance’s Video Peer Group at the Grand View Lodge in Nisswa, MN. Viodi produced a mini-version of our local content workshop as a prelude to this event. This was an opportunity for us to…

  • FCC Looking For Tech Donations

    The FCC is looking for technology donations for their Tech Experience Center.  This is a no-brainer for technology vendors and donating their latest and greatest should be a priority.  Service providers should take a close look at this program and see how they might be able to donate tech service examples.  This might be a…

  • Viodi View – 10/27/2010

    The October 27th issue of the Viodi View includes articles on LTE standards, mobile backhaul via Ethernet, hybrid fiber/wireless solutions for serving the unserved in Vermont and discussion of today being the honeymoon period for brands that use Facebook; but they have to use it correctly, before it loses its luster among consumers.

  • Motion Pictures at 4G World

    The last half of the 1800s brought pictures "to life" with the zoopraxiscope, kinetoscope, and the vitascope. These were the early days of moving pictures and Cinematographe. The "Wheel of Life" Zoopraxiscope PD Image from Wikipedia – view synchronization by Roger Although simple and presumably unrelated, the photo flip book below made me realize how…

  • ITU-R Progresses LTE Advanced and WiMax 2.0 as 4G RAN standards

    Introduction: Did you think the version of LTE being deployed this year and next (3GPP Release-8) and Mobile WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e-2005) were 4G technologies?  They're actually both 3G technologies which are included in ITU-R M.1457-9 Detailed specifications of the terrestrial radio interfaces of International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 (IMT-2000). In reality, it's the ITU-R's IMT Advanced family of recommendations that…