Broadband Dave's Blog

Video Interview with Matt Rooyakkers, Nyce Technology

2008-08-02T13:53:00.000-07:00

Sandy interviews Matt Rooyakkers, VP Business development at Nyce Technology, a company headquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada that designs, manufactures and supplies plastic optical fiber (POF) networking solutions. They discussed newly-designed end products for the home which convert from existing technologies like Ethernet or Wi-Fi to POF, and switches that cross connect between POF and Ethernet to connect the end devices. The interview was taped at the IPTV World Forum North America conference in Chicago, July 23, 2008.

For more information about Nyce Technology, visit their website.

VIdeo Interview with Lawrence Thorne, Firecomms

2008-08-02T13:28:00.000-07:00

Sandy interviews Lawrence Thorne, VP of Sales and Marketing, Americas, at Firecomms, a company headquartered in Cork, Ireland, that provides light sources and sensors for home networking based on plastic optical fiber (POF). They discussed how telcos can use POF instead of Category 5 cabling for triple-play installations when existing wiring is unavailable or unsuitable. The interview was taped at the IPTV World Forum North America conference in Chicago, July 23, 2008.

For more information on Firecomms, visit the Firecomms website.

Video Interview with Arman Aygen, Witbe

2008-08-02T11:14:00.000-07:00

Sandy interviews Arman Aygen, Business Development Manager at Witbe, a company headquartered in Paris, France, that provides user quality-measurement systems for broadband service providers delivering video, voice and data. They discussed the importance of user-centric quality measures for interactive video services, and why network performance measures are necessary but not sufficient to create a satisfactory customer experience. The interview was taped at the IPTV World Forum North America conference in Chicago, July 23, 2008.

For more information on Witbe, visit the Witbe website.

We've Got Videos! Interview with Kelvin Shepherd

2008-08-02T10:54:00.000-07:00

Sandy kept telling me how twentieth century our website looks, and she finally convinced me that we should start producing videos. So we brought our videocam to a conference last week, and we've starting posting our videos on YouTube. Sandy conducted the interviews, while I was behind the camera.

In our first video, Sandy interviews Kelvin Shepherd, President, Consumer Markets at MTSallstream, the incumbent telco in Manitoba, Canada, at the IPTV World Forum North America conference in Chicago, July 22, 2008. They discussed innovative IPTV pricing, competitive dynamics, Microsoft MediaRoom and converged services, network infrastructure, and quality monitoring.

For more information on MTSallstream, visit the MTS website".

Welcome to Broadband Dave's Blog

2008-07-25T21:04:00.000-07:00

Hi. I'm Dave Waks, Co-Founder of Broadband Home Central, a website covering the residential broadband ecosystem for the industry. My partner Sandy Teger and I are using these blogs to provide timely information between issues of our monthly Report on the Broadband Home. Our report is available in many different formats, including an RSS feed. It's free, so visit our website to sign up.