Viodi View – The Bridge Between the Heartland and Silicon Valley

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  • Viodi View – 11/18/13

    Viodi View – 11/18/13

    Can drivel be thought-provoking? Sometimes it can, even if not for the reason intended. A recent episode of Two Broke Girls had me thinking thoughts that CBS probably had no intent on stirring. Those thoughts, combined with the timing of Senator Jay Rockefeller’s (D-W.Va.) bill, S1680, regarding the creation of a new class of online video…

  • Viodi View – 10/04/13

    Unique Communities Bonded by Broadband You have seen one rural community and you haven’t seen them all. I have found that to be the case in my travels through rural America. Each locale has a unique story. So often one find things that are unexpected (like a town that is home to a company that…

  • Viodi View – 05/03/12

    Viodi View – 05/03/12

    A video travelogue of the telecom industry and its related applications is one way to think about the Viodi View or, at least ViodiTV. The intent of the video interviews and stories from around the country is to augment what is in the news or what should be in the news. The nuggets we get from…

  • Viodi View – 04/22/13

    Viodi View – 04/22/13

    You can’t rely on the Federal Government or Google to build your broadband for you. That was a common sentiment at last week’s 2013 Broadband Communities Summit. Whether Democrat or Republican, better broadband seems to be a bipartisan cause that all can get behind. We had some great interviews with leaders from communities and industry…

  • Viodi View – 04/08/13

    Viodi View – 04/08/13

    Are Google’s fiber networking efforts a small part of something that is much bigger; something that even Google may not be able to envision? That’s the impression I got from listening to a recent presentation from Google’s Milo Medin. Perhaps the network becomes a central nervous system for the sensors and machines that become part…

  • Google Fiber – A Step Function Connectivity Improvement

    Google Fiber – A Step Function Connectivity Improvement

    A step function improvement in capability is how Milo Medin described Google’s Kansas City fiber project at the February 13th IEEE ComSoc meeting in Santa Clara. That huge improvement in customer experience is in contrast to the incremental gains of MSO [Multiple System Operator] and telco broadband networks, which have much lower access speeds. Medin, who…