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Telehealth Care Opportunities & Challenges for Rural Operators
Mark Cornett, COO of Fused Solutions, LLC & Rachel Murtrux, Director of the Missouri Telehealth Network, discuss some of the challenges extending tele-healthcare to rural areas. This was filmed at the 2011 IP Possiblities Conference.
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Is 4 Mbs a Dead End Rural Road?
A 25:1 ratio is what John Rose, president of OPASTCO, points out is the difference between what the National Broadband Plan calls for between urban and rural areas. The objective for 2020 is to have at least 100 million homes at 100 Mb/s. Rose points out that the other 15 to 30 million rural homes…
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Importance of Rural Broadband – An Interview with the FCC’s Genachowski
A highlight of the OPASTCO 2010 Summer Convention was the keynote speech of FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. ViodiTV caught up with Chairman Genachowski after his speech and he elaborated on the importance of a robust broadband infrastructure to creating a vibrant rural economy, which in turn benefits the urban economy. We also briefly discussed the…
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Run e-NC – Getting Broadband to Every Last Corner of North Carolina
The second largest rural population in the country is one factor that makes the implementation of broadband in North Carolina a challenge, so says Jane Patterson the Executive Director of e-NC. We caught up with Patterson at the 2010 Broadband Properties Summit, where she talked about the work the e-NC Authority is doing to help…
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Carrier Ethernet in the Rural Markets
In this interview Michael Loomis of Nortel Networks and Gary Bolton of Hatteras Networks explain the applicability of Carrier Ethernet to rural markets, using both existing copper and/or new fiber infrastructure. This allows carriers to provide services to rural areas that are comparable to what can be found in urban area. Michael Loomis points out…
