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  • Peter Thiel – the Ultimate Enigma- at Commonwealth Club Event

    Peter Thiel – the Ultimate Enigma- at Commonwealth Club Event

    Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, VC/hedge fund manager and author of Zero to One, was interviewed by NY Times’ Quentin Hardy on Sept 30, 2014 at the Commonwealth Club of Silicon Valley event in Santa Clara, CA.   While I agreed with several things Mr. Thiel said, he seems to be a man of many contradictions.  Hardy…

  • Google’s Actions Hurt Broadband Rollout, Particularly in Rural America

    Google’s Actions Hurt Broadband Rollout, Particularly in Rural America

    Lack of relevant content, affordability and digital literacy are the three dominant barriers to the adoption of broadband, according to the World Bank Broadband Strategies Toolkit. The Google Apps Partner Edition™ platform addresses these barriers as it is a relatively low-cost, email/communications/productivity/device management platform. The Google platform has become a platform trusted by tens of…

  • Light Reading’s NFV and the Data Center- Operator Keynotes, Security & Summary-Part 2

    Light Reading’s NFV and the Data Center- Operator Keynotes, Security & Summary-Part 2

    Introduction: This second article on Light Reading’s NFV-Data Center conference summarizes telco keynote speeches from Orange and NTT-America. We then look at security challenges and wrap up with our summary and conclusions. Part 1. on the Heavy Reading NFV survey results and CenturyLink keynote may be read here. Orange Keynote: Christos Kolias, Sr. Research Scientist,…

  • Highlights of Light Reading’s NFV and the Data Center Conference-Part 1.

    Highlights of Light Reading’s NFV and the Data Center Conference-Part 1.

    Introduction: The telco data center¹(DC) is likely to be the first place network operators deploy Network Virtualization/Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).  That was the opening statement at the Light Reading conference on NFV and the Data Center, held Sept 16, 2014 in Santa Clara, CA.  A network virtualized data center was defined by the conference host…

  • Viodi View – 09/19/14

    Viodi View – 09/19/14

    The best part of conferences are the face-to-face meetings. Next week’s NTCA Fall Conference will provide ample opportunities to meet with Viodi View readers and viewers. One operator I am looking  forward to meeting with is Paul Bunyan Communications. PBC’s had a blockbuster announcement yesterday about their all-fiber, GigaZone offering, which provides symmetric Gigabit speeds at…

  • Autonomous Vehicle View – 09/19/14

    Autonomous Vehicle View – 09/19/14

    This is a biweekly round-up of some of the articles on autonomous vehicles that elicited commentary from this author. Note, with all the buzz about autonomous vehicles, this list isn’t comprehensive. If the model for autonomous vehicle is a service model, however, where the car is owned by a service provider (e.g. Google), then more…