Viodi View – The Bridge Between the Heartland and Silicon Valley

  • Barney, a Beneficiary of the Broadband Plan?

    If my brief look at just of one section is an indicator, then politicians, pundits and consultants will be discussing the content of the FCC’s National Broadband Plan for many years. Section 15.2 (page 302), Building a Robust Digital Media Ecosystem,starts by pointing out the significant challenges and declines faced by traditional journalism outlets, such…

  • Video Opportunities With ViodiTV

    Have you gone beyond broadband to leverage your network with video content and seen the Possibilities of IP? ViodiTV at events like IP Possibilities is a great opportunity for generating video content for vendors and telco's to use in demonstrating, promoting, and reaching out to your TV and on-line audience. Roger and Ken bring these…

  • Workshop Report: Clearwire on track with rollouts and app tools, but MSO partners struggle with Business Models

    Author's Disclaimer: Unlike many "would be journalists" that are either always negative on WiMAX, or are "perennial pollyannas" that produce an endless stream of recycled "happy talk," this author tries to be balanced and objective of WiMAX in general and the WiMAX events covered in particular. This author been covering WiMAX for over 6 years…

  • Viodi View – 03/03/10

    The sunshine, bright blue sky and relative warmth that greeted attendees of the 101st Annual Minnesota Telecom Alliance Convention is hopefully a metaphor for a fresh beginning. The weather over the previous couple of MTA Conventions mirrored the economy with gray skies and biting temperatures. This year, there are signs of rebirth everywhere, as I…

  • GSA Silicon Series: New Markets, New Economics, Feb 10, 2010

    This very informative, analyst – only panel discussion (Feb 10th in Santa Clara, CA) assessed the outlook for new and growing markets throughout the semiconductor industry. While several markets were covered, this summary will focus exclusively on the hot communications related markets and products. During the meeting, analysts from FBR Capital Markets, iSuppli, Databeans and Gartner…

  • Viodi View – 02/17/10

    Succession planning is not something of discussion at tech conferences. With the rapid evolution of technology, it is rare for a company to last a generation, much less generations like some of my telco friends and their companies.  As such, succession planning is serious business in the telephone industry, where lack of a good succession…