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Rethink Your Business or Get Left Behind
The difference between the “connected” and “smart” home is self-learning, according to Farooq Muzaffar, VP, Corporate Strategy & Development for Verizon. The smart home learns and adapts to the behavior of the individuals (e.g. TV shuts off when no one is their to view it). Practically speaking, the smart home is also connected to the…
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The LTE Alternative to DSL
One of Verizon’s suppliers, Wistron, had a display at CES that demonstrated Verizon’s fixed LTE solution that serves as an alternative to DSL and satellite infrastructure for rural areas. With advertised speeds of 12 Mb/s downstream (and reportedly higher in real world conditions, according to one user), Verizon with its LTE offering will compete against…
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Speed and Reliability Is the Message
Speed and reliability are two elements that will be increasingly important to broadband customers. In this video interview, Tom Nugent of Verizon Enhanced Communities talks about the nuances of providing broadband to Multi Dwelling Units. He discusses the applications they are providing for building owners to enhance the value of their properties.
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Broadband Apps to the MTU
Pedro Correa talks of the innovation within the Multi Dwelling Unit, when broadband converges with applications in this exclusive interview filmed at the 2012 Broadband Communities Summit.
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Verizon/Redbox – More than Meets the Eyeball
Verizon’s announcement of its partnership with RedBox isn’t much of a surprise given last year’s formation of their Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS) unit. At the Media Innovation Summit, Louisa Shipnuck explained VDMS and how it is an end-to-end content workflow and delivery solution; or as some would say content from camera to eyeball. Shipnuck is clear…
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Borderless Lifestyle and the Connected Home
The borderless lifestyle is what Ann Shaub of Verizon talks about in this interview. That is, the connected nature of broadband coupled with home networking allows people to blur the lines between work and home life; chores and play; efficiency and abundance. Making the user interface simple to use and one that transcends devices is…
