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Why FDDI Didn’t Happen (4:53)
The entire panel discusses the various factors regarding FDDI, which was the great hope for high-speed networks and why things didn’t work out that way. [Special thanks to Dan Pitt for supplying the above description and title]
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OTT Video Quality Continues to Improve
Suppliers of encoders for Over the Top (OTT) video continue to improve quality of stream and breadth of scope to multiple screens. I met up with Keith Wymbs, Elemental Technologies, at The Cable Show this week to learn about new partnerships and how encoders for real-time streaming (and storage for on-demand) are enabling the multi-screen…
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ViodiTV at WSTA 2009
Highlights from the 2009 WSTA Annual Convention. This edition of ViodiTV at WSTA was sponsored by Solarus and Central Cable Contractors. Highlights include Wisconsin PSC Commissioner Mark Meyer, Daniel Hardy and Judd Genda of Axley Brynelson, Gary Evans of Hiawatha Broadband, Jerry Wilke of RTG, Rob Riordan of Nsight, Andrew Walding of CellStream, Ann Anderson of Lemonweir Valley Tel, and…
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Evolving TDM to IP
An interview with Andrew Walding, CellStream, at the WSTA 2009 Annual Convention. Andrew talks about moving from TDM voice to IP voice, and how we’re not really inventing a new wheel, but adapting it. We talk a bit on the flexibility of SIP and his favorite new application and gadget. ViodiTV at WSTA was sponsored…
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Femtocell Applications with Rob Riordan
Rob Riordan, Nsight, talks about Femtocells. Margaret Hines – Inspire Marketing – interviews Rob at the WSTA 2009 Annual Convention for ViodiTV. Riordan suggests some innovative uses of femtocells, including as a sort of location detection device to remind teenagers to do their chores and homework when they arrive home from school. Beyond improving signal quality,…
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Download from the ITA
Ben Mendelson, President of the Interactive Television Alliance, provides highlights from their press breakfast at NAB 2008. He speaks of some of the direct video to consumer plays, as well the OCAP efforts of cable television operators.
