ViodiTV Videos About Broadband, Technology, & More
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Help Wanted: A National Clearinghouse for Smart Energy
A clearinghouse that brings third parties and the 2,000+ electric utilities together to create a national market for Demand Response (DR) is needed, according to Roy Perry of Alarm.com. Perry, formerly of Cable Labs, has been a thought-leader in looking at how to achieve energy efficiency goals in cost-effective ways (see this interview from the…
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Telecom ’96 and Blowout Author Speaks
The United States is still, “A country of opportunity,” said former Senator Byron Dorgan, in his speech to the Minnesota Telecom Association in Minneapolis, today. He suggested that, as a country, we need to find ways to work together. He compared the efforts to bring broadband to rural America with the wagon train of the…
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Cloud-Based Local Content
Using the cloud to deliver local, linear and on-demand content is what Jesse Lerman of TelVue demonstrates in this brief video interview at the 2012 OTTCON (Over the Top Conference) in Santa Clara, CA. TelVue has taken their base product, which is deployed in hundreds of headends and local access channel origination stations, and moved…
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Fiber to the Drive-In
Vandalism and the lost business that resulted, prompted this rural North Dakota drive-in/diner to implement security services from the local independent telecommunications cooperative. The proprietor, Doug Davis, explains how the bundle of Internet, video and security has eliminated the crime problem and improved the ambiance of their popular eatery. This video made possible by Calix.
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Promoting & Paving the Way to Greater Energy Efficiency
Helping utilities and their customers improve energy efficiency is what Rory Jones of yoUtilBill describes of their outreach and the tool that they have. He explains that their software helps customers prioritize energy investments. This can lead to thousands of dollars in savings for those customers in the top 20% of electricity users. [ViodiTV coverage…
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Be More Nimble and More Local
Retransmission consent, programming costs and the terms and conditions under which his company must operate were among the biggest concerns of Robert Gessner of Massillon Cable TV at last week’s ACA Summit. In this video interview, he explains the importance of independents working together to negotiate with the large media suppliers. He points out that the…