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Broadband – Unique to Each Locale
Tim Scott describes Axia’s role as the operator for community networks. He highlights a middle-mile project they are involved with in western Massachusetts. With an international presence that spans from Singapore to Alberta to Massachusetts, Scott explains that Axia has found that the business case for broadband is unique to each locale and has to…
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Act Together to Generate Supply and Demand
“We are teaching our rural regions to help themselves,” said Galen Updike, past-president of the Rural Telecommunications Congress. He suggests that rural communities need to work together regionally to aggregate demand to attract broadband. He points out that there is no cookie-cutter approach, but one commonality is the feet on the street in the community…
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Going Beyond Phone Therapy
“It has to go beyond, what we call, phone therapy,” said James Morehead. Morehead, VP of Product Management for Support.com explains the importance of being able to provide fast and efficient support to meet the demands of consumers. He explains that being able to embed software hooks to enable remote the monitoring of devices within the home…
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Pictures from the IEEE Thin Memory Panel
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Thin Film Memories
The low-cost cloud applications we enjoy today would not be possible if not for the low-cost hard-drive. This series of videos provides a glimpse of the challenges and the cleverness of the folks who developed the technology in the 70s and 80s that laid part of the foundation for today’s innovations. These video segments were…
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Digital Energy 2.0
Robby Simpson, PhD, System Architect of GE Digital Energy, explains the differences between Smart Energy Profile 1.0 and 2.0 and how the 2.0 specification, with its Internet Protocol capability, is going to provide flexibility with and interoperability between the protocol technology (e.g. Zigbee, HomePlug, WiFi, etc.) utilized for smart grid applications. The benefit of such…
