Viodi View – The Bridge Between the Heartland and Silicon Valley

  • Viodi View – 03/28/16

    Viodi View – 03/28/16

    With the first shipments of the Oculus Rift going out today, will we soon see a new world of content? How will virtual reality shake up the content distribution business, if at all? Will VR only have niche applications or will it become a new way of life, just like the smart phone has become an appendage for many…

  • 2016 Open Networking Summit: Open Source Rules, But Are There Too Many Choices?

    2016 Open Networking Summit: Open Source Rules, But Are There Too Many Choices?

    Introduction: For its first few years, the Open Networking Summit (ONS) focused on pure SDN – strict separation of control and data planes, centralized SDN controller computing routes for hundreds of “packet forwarding engines” in its domain and OpenFlow as the southbound API/protocol used between control and data planes.  Overlay networks (a logical network mapped…

  • Viodi View – 03/08/16

    Viodi View – 03/08/16

    Should smaller broadband operators even offer video, given all the marketplace and regulatory challenges? That’s a question I am looking forward to posing at a panel at next week’s NTCA TEF conference. This session should be interesting, given this week’s proposal to the FCC by INCOMPAS (PDF) that, as a condition for approval of the Charter/Time-Warner merger, a…

  • Google Fiber’s Slow Rollout & Pole Access Challenges

    Google Fiber’s Slow Rollout & Pole Access Challenges

    Introduction: Google Fiber1 had only 53,390 TV customers as of Dec. 31,2015, according to U.S. Copyright Office data published in a recent MoffettNathanson report. Furthermore, growth in subscribers is slowing. The report said that Google Fiber’s video customer base grew by 79 percent over the previous year. It grew at 136 percent for the last…

  • Tech as the New Mobility Status Symbol

    Tech as the New Mobility Status Symbol

    “We are entering a time when price and size get decoupled,” says Mark Platshon, Senior Advisor of BMW i Ventures in the above video filmed at the Joint Venture Silicon Valley 2016 State of the Valley Conference. Platshon was referring to the idea that today’s buyers are increasingly looking to technology to improve the mobility experience and value that…

  • Viodi View – 02/26/16

    Viodi View – 02/26/16

    What do set-tops, wireless and Silicon Valley have in common? Besides being referenced in today’s Viodi View, they also represent opportunity in one form or another to one group or another. More or Less Competition from FCC’s Approved “Open” Set Top Box Proposal? by Alan Weissberger On Feb 18, 2016, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) narrowly approved a…