Starlink and 50-plus Years of Satellites

Posted by on May 17, 2024 The sight is startling: Two dozen lights moving across the early night sky in a gentle arc. This is a “train” of Starlink low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites, lit up by the sun and still aligned, before separating and rising to their designated orbits. Given some recent client projects, satellites have been on my mind. My exposure to space-based telecom and media infrastructure, however, has a...
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Achieve Low Latency with M-ABR and Chunked CMAF

Posted by on Jun 26, 2019 In a paper I wrote earlier this year, I addressed a dilemma facing OTT video service providers. Namely: Demand for live streaming is growing, yet so is aversion to “live” video compromised by high latency. The sponsors of this paper were video delivery solutions provider Broadpeak and THEO Technologies, developer of a universal video player. The technologies they recommend can...
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What Makes Craft Beer and Tech a Good Fit?

Posted by on Jun 20, 2019 Craft beer is on the agenda at the Richmond Technology Council (aka RVATech). This year the regional business association began billing its “Tech on Tap” events as a part of a “brewery tour.” The third of four separate events was held June 19 (Juneteenth!) at Väsen Brewing Company. The sponsor: Dynatrace, a global company specializing in application performance monitoring and enterprise cloud...
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Conference Panel Participants: Take Note

Posted by on May 23, 2019 Not everyone in a given industry goes to trade shows or industry gatherings. Among those who do, only a subset attend sessions or panel discussions. Fewer still actually participate on those conference panels. If you are among those who serve as panelists or maybe offer PR advice to those who do, read on. Having been a trade journalist myself, I’ve attended many of these sessions. (And still...
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Blockchain: Beyond Hype and Toward Wider Use

Posted by on Feb 5, 2019 Over the past year, blockchain began coming into its own. It remains the foundation of digital currencies, but is now more widely diffused, independent and less subject to inflated expectations than it was at the start of 2018. Many industries are now looking into the distributed ledger technologies once exclusively associated with cryptocurrency. In a lecture I heard last April sponsored by...
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