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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…
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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…
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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…
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Viodi View – 09/12/15
One of the best things about touring small town America is seeing the unexpected. For instance, it was surprising to me that Quincy, Illinois, a city of approximately 41,000, is large enough to support public transit. Like their larger city brethren, it is time for planners in even smaller cities to consider the impact of autonomy on…
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A Transition Step(s) to an Autonomous Transport Future
A relatively low-density city designed around the car. Public transportation service that meets its published schedule only 71% of the time, leading to customer satisfaction of only 65%, while the fare recovery is only 15% (passengers only pay 15% of the actual cost with government subsidies making up the difference). Although the above sounds like a description befitting most any U.S. post-World War…
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2015 Hot Interconnects Summary Part I – Oracle, Intel, and Facebook Talks
Introduction: In this first of a multi-part series on the excellent Hot Interconnects 2015 conference, held in Santa Clara, CA, August 26-28, 2015, we highlight presentations from three major IT infrastructure vendors: Oracle, Intel, and Facebook. A follow on article will examine Huawei’s open source activities, Deep Machine Learning and its networking applications (from Brocade Research),…
Viodi View – The Bridge Between the Heartland and Silicon Valley