Tag: ftth
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Viodi View – 02/15/13
Disruption in the Smart Home It is just getting started, but there already many alternatives for the consumer to create a smart home experience. Tom Kerber of Parks Associates points out that many of the smart home developments shown at International CES are from upstart companies that have devices and don’t necessarily rely on service…
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Viodi View – 11/29/2012
Yesterday’s news about the progress Chicago is making in its bid to entice private entities to build out a fiber network, reminded me of an interview we did with Joey Durel, Lafayette, LA City/Parish President, regarding their municipal fiber project. It also took me back to a presentation that Durel gave at the 2005 FTTH…
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Viodi View – 10/19/12
Panels and presentations provide the skeleton for a conference, but sometimes the hallway conversations, sparked by something a speaker said or didn’t say, are the real meat of a conference. This thought occurred to me at last week’s TV Next 2012 conference, as organizer Greg Fawson did an excellent job of bringing together the various players from the…
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Viodi View – 05/30/12
In the previous issue of the Viodi View, the topic of discovery through travel was explored. In this issue, we look at a present day discovery that emulates those entrepreneurs who made Silicon Valley what it is. Home Energy Management as Content “The furnace and the air conditioner in the average home accounts for almost…
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Viodi View – 04/28/10
Attending three shows in two weeks – IP Possibilities, TANE and the 2010 Broadband Properties Summit – may have caused me to go into conference overload. All are great shows and I have some great take-aways from these events that are still stuck as digital scribbles across my virtual notepad. My epiphany is how much…
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BT will miss 2010 target for IPTV service but will increase FTTP
Britain’s BT Vision said the IPTV service would fall short of meeting its goal of 2 million to 3 million customers by the end of next year. That target, set by BT CEO Ian Livingstone, won’t be reached over that time. "We have not yet found the best way of explaining what the benefits are…