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IPTV – Over Promised and Under Delivered
Click to Learn More At the Iowa Telephone Association’s Video Workshop in Des Moines, Roger Musick of Innovative Systems proclaimed that IPTV has been, “over promised and under delivered”. He suggested that there have been too many vendors in the IPTV chain, which has complicated the rollout and maintenance of IPTV networks. Echoing what many…
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Yet Another Raucous Party At Spring VON 2007
One of the fun things about the VON conferences is that they are fun. The ideas are fresh and the content of the conference is excellence. At the end of the day, there are always lots of great parties and opportunities to talk to some really interesting people in a very relaxed atmosphere.
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Picture Phone or Picture Frame – An Exclusive ViodiTV Interview
The following video interview used an external camcorder to capture the video from Packet8’s Tango phone. The camcorder video was encoded to a WMV file, which was then converted to a Flash 9 format, as seen below. Because of these multiple conversions, the video on this page has artifacts that were not present in the…
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OEN Launches in Houston Suburb – An Audio Interview
Brought to you by Telecom @ NAB Optical Entertainment Networks made a big splash a few years ago when they announced an aggressive plan to deploy Fiber to the Home throughout the Houston metro area. OEN President and CEO, Al Estrada, an early veteran of DirecTV, discusses their strategy for rolling out service. He talks…
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ACE Promotes Industry Standards
Brought to you by Innovative Systems Standards are a real issue for the independent telco industry. ACE, the Association of Communications Engineers, has teamed up with NTCA, OPASTCO and RUS to develop new standards. We caught up with Charlie Watts, the President of ACE in this brief interview where he explains how important standards are…
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Will We Ever Get an Answer on Universal Broadband?
There seems to be universal agreement that a robust broadband infrastructure will help to better educate our children, make for a more informed citizenry and ensure competitiveness in the worldwide marketplace. I submit that broadband Internet and a way of using the broadband (some device) are necessary to ensure equality of opportunity for all of…
