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Stepping Into the GigaZone – A Commitment to Local Economic Development
Helping with economic development for the communities they serve is part of Paul Bunyan Communications’ mission statement. Economic development is one of the motivations for PBC’s restructuring of its offering to one that is centered around an all-fiber, broadband vision. Paul Bunyan’s GigaZone, announced last Thursday, made a big splash in the news (featured on the…
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Know Your Customer’s Business – Part 2
Veteran telecommunications engineer and author, Jim Farmer, explains the process for the development of Scientific Atlanta’s 6350 modulator, which helped propel Scientific Atlanta as a leader in the headend space in the late 1970s and 1980s. He explains how he and fellow industry luminary, Alex Best, developed the 6350 largely based on what they had learned from…
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Budgeting and Accounting Are Cool
The rolling budget as a way to help an organization be more nimble and react to changing times is discussed in the above interview with Camille Christiansen and Ira Taylor of Moss Adams. They had just given a very interactive presentation at the 2014 NTCA Finance and Accounting meeting on the importance of and techniques…
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WiFi Bonding Demonstrates Gigabit+ Speeds
With all the hype this week surrounding new smartphones, smart watches and a new payment approach from a company named after a fruit, it is easy to overlook the significance of the addition of 802.11 AC wireless to its smartphones. PC Magazine didn’t miss this subtlety, however, as seen in its article, 5 ways 802.11…
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A Quantitative Cultural Transformation
Translating mission statements and vision statements into to transform corporate culture is what Albert Bodamer of Bodamer Consulting, LLC discusses in the above interview filmed at NTCA’s 2014 Finance and Accounting Meeting in San Jose. Bodamer talks about how his clients have used a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) to quantify their high-level goals. The Balanced Scorecard converts the…
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Managing Risk for New Services #Summit21
“Once you are given the responsibility to protect and manage [somebody’s else’s data]…you need to make sure you are taking all the necessary steps to protect your customers and your clients,” says Stephen Gorman of The Hartford in the above interview. Gorman was referring to the idea that service providers need to account for the security…
