Viodi View – The Bridge Between the Heartland and Silicon Valley

  • Virtual Vengeance – Today’s Reality

    Virtual Vengeance – Today’s Reality

    Note: This book review is dedicated to the late John P. Messmer: a voracious reader, outstanding engineer, and stand-up guy with an enormous heart. Paying homage to Messmer’s book-a-day reading habit, this reviewer read Virtual Vengeance in a day. It was refreshing to read words on paper, instead of a screen, and to become engrossed…

  • Viodi View – 10/29/24

    Viodi View – 10/29/24

    At their best, communities make the individual better and provide true meaning. Breaking bread, sharing the sweat of a hard day’s work, and surmounting the challenges of imperfection are the things that connect humans.   Building a community is a challenge. Living in harmonious community is even more challenging. Of course, communities ebb and flow…

  • Viodi View – 09/30/24

    Viodi View – 09/30/24

    The personal revelation from writing this issue of the Viodi View is what a blessing it has been to spend my entire career in telecommunications. The employers have come and gone (virtually all of them gone), but the relationships remain. Last week’s SCTE’s TechExpo was a good reminder of how relationships are the true wealth…

  • TechExpo Home Coming

    TechExpo Home Coming

    SCTE’s TechExpo may be the only thread that links the grand conferences of the past, such as the National and Western Cable shows, with the present and future. The excitement and buzz of the show floor had the feel of those conferences from the days of yore. As much as a show like TechExpo is…

  • Viodi View – 08/31/24

    Viodi View – 08/31/24

    From the outside, it was a nondescript modular house oddly planted in the middle of a corporate parking lot.1 Inside was the most impressive 2008-era demonstration of smart home technologies.  It provided a tangible vision of what life would be like in the year 2024 and beyond. Thanks to Parks Associates, outsiders, like this author,…

  • Viodi View – 07/27/24

    Viodi View – 07/27/24

    Innovation has always been a common theme of the Fiber Broadband Association’s Fiber Connect 2024 conference. The Proof of Concepts at FiberConnect 2024 will show how standards and open broadband software from the Broadband Forum enable innovation and new offerings. Learn more here about the PoCs. Thanks to the Broadband Forum, my employer, for supporting this…