Viodi View – The Bridge Between the Heartland and Silicon Valley

  • Property Assessed Broadband – A Bottoms Up Way to Build Community & Broadband

    Property Assessed Broadband – A Bottoms Up Way to Build Community & Broadband

    [12/6/19 Update – Columbia Law Professor Tim Wu and Google’s Derek Slater suggested a similar concept to what is suggested below in a 2008 white paper, Homes with Tails. The ironic thing is that I had referenced this paper in a comment I made to an April 2013 article I had written about Google Fiber.…

  • Viodi View – 11/06/15

    Viodi View – 11/06/15

    It was a simple question from a Viodi View reader, “What are you going to write about the conference?” I had been so busy filming videos for others that I hadn’t given much thought to all the buzz I had heard. I figured I better get a couple of interviews, which I could play on ViodiTV. Still,…

  • Viodi View – 10/24/15

    Viodi View – 10/24/15

    It’s always a treat when a global organization brings their annual confab to my hometown, the capital of Silicon Valley. The ironic thing is that I spent more time looking for parking, than I did commuting to the recent WBA Global Congress. Parking is one of the issues that the Wireless Broadband Alliance hopes to address as…

  • Viodi View – 10/10/15

    Viodi View – 10/10/15

    The Silicon Valley start-up scene is dynamic; meaning that more start-ups fail than achieve commercial success. Unlike its early roots, Silicon Valley companies that do succeed are typically angel or venture-backed and, as a result, the focus is often on “the exit”. Rare is the Silicon Valley company that manages to grow into an international…

  • Viodi View – 09/26/15

    Viodi View – 09/26/15

    Until I begin using robotic telepresence, like the women who used it outside the Apple store this week, it won’t be possible to be in two places at once. A robotic telepresence would have been useful this week, as that would have allowed me to attend NTCA’s Fall Conference. Fortunately, we caught up with an industry…

  • A Power Grid with a Transit System

    A Power Grid with a Transit System

    Google’s real innovation in deploying Fiber-to-the-Home broadband networks had little to do with technology and a lot to do with improving the process for building physical plant. The technology to light the fiber was available when Google started its quest to offer a gigabit/second to residential customers. The big challenge was creating the fiber connection…