ViodiTV Videos About Broadband, Technology, & More
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Sneak Peek of the Internet Peering Book
The technical and economic aspects surrounding Internet peering are central to a just published book by Bill Norton, also known as “Dr. Peering”. In this interview, filmed at Parks Associates’ Connections™ conference, we catch up with this former member of the founding team of Equinix and former chairman of NANOG and find out his motivation…
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Retransmission Consent 101
A government bailout for broadcasters is how retransmission consent was characterized by Matt Polka, president of the ACA, in the panel he moderated at the Independent Show. This article he penned for CED echoes the comments he made during his panel. In this brief interview after the panel, Polka provides a brief overview of retransmission…
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Original Content
The announcement of the Starz, LLC partnership with the BBC to co-produce content for their respective networks was hinted at in this interview with John Penney, EVP of strategy and business development, of Starz at the 2011 Connections™ conference. He was a keynote speaker at Connections™ and one of the things he spoke of is…
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A Platform for Supporting the Customer
Jordan Socran of Radialpoint discusses their solution for helping service providers and CE vendors help provide support to their customers. Through its platform and/or agents, Radialpoint leverages a brand’s existing customer support approach to help consumers with their connected home needs. Radialpoint wants to help their customers compete with offerings such as Best Buy’s Geek…
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Crossroads for Mobile Carriers
Mobile carriers are at a cross roads in terms of being able to monetize the investments they have made in their infrastructure, according to Harry Wang, Director of Health and Mobile Research for Parks Associates. Looking at other markets and ways, such as Machine to Machine connectivity, to build on that infrastructure will be critical…
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Networking Inside the Plug
A Smart Energy HAN Consortium is how Alan Weissberger titled his blog post about an alliance of alliances that consists of the WiFi Alliance, the Home Grid Forum, Zigbee Alliance and the HomePlug Alliance. As Alan explains, the intent of this super group is to help companies that provide products that communicate over IP to…