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Leading the Orchestra
Last week’s announcement by Affinegy of their Home Portal v2.0 software and related announcement that Cablevision is deploying it, is further evidence of the growing importance of the converged home to service providers’ business plans. We caught up with Affinegy CEO, Melissa Simpler at the Parks Associates Connections conference, where she discusses Home Portal v2.0. In…
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Impressions of Connections
The human user interface/gesture recognition, multi-screen access to content and the cloud were three things that made an impression on Kurt Scherf, VP of Parks Associations, at the 2011 Connections Summit. Demonstrations of these technologies at the Tuesday night panel set the tone for this multi-day event. As Scherf points out, the value of the…
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Pollution Funding & More
Bill Ablondi of Parks Associates provides an overview of some of the key take-aways from the 2011 CONNECTIONS™ conference in Santa Clara, CA. From “Funding Pollution”, to the idea of shifting a product or service from a “nice to have” to a “must-to-have”, Ablondi provides kernels of the knowledge shared at this year’s event. ViodiTV coverage…
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Promoting Local Content
This is part two of a panel on local content creation and distribution that I moderated at the 2011 Broadband Properties Summit. In this final question to our esteemed panel, the question of how best to promote local content. A common theme in the panelists responses was the importance in getting the community involved both…
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Broadband Key to Economic Development & More
In the is interview at the 2011 Broadband Properties Summit, Graham Richard, former mayor of Fort Wayne, IN, discusses the relationship between broadband and economic development. He talks about the role of fiber for improving the delivery of municipal services. He cites statistics that suggest that businesses getting started in homes where there is FTTH…
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Fiber Optic Memory Lane
Larry Johnson of the Light Brigade briefly describes the temporary museum erected at the 2011 Broadband Properties Summit. The row of signs described the evolution of communications using light; from the development of the laser and fiber optic cable to the integration of these technologies. He talks of the Light Brigade/FTTH Council relationship to provide…
