…#8217;s first to be connected to the National Broadband Network, and will thus significantly beat the projected broadband speed average. Imagine the amazing experiences they will be able to have then! What would you do with a 100/40 Mbps pipe to a rural school? Join our team of VNI-SA bloggers (follow @CiscoVNI) Do you have an interesting story of how technology has changed your community, your work, or your business? Is technology providing opp…

Read More >>

Tags: Dallas Clayton, education, rural, rural broadband, service adoption, Tasmania, video conferencing, vni, VNI-SA

By Shirley Bloomfield, Guest Columnist I wish I could say this is my story, but it’s not. It’s the story of some hard working women looking for a way to be connected in the global economy. And it’s the story of my daughter, Kelsey Patterson, who is dedicating her talent and skills to help these women. My heart glows with pride when I share the work that she is doing in Mozambique. Kelsey, a global development and international affairs major, is…

Read More >>

Tags: africa, economic impact, research, rural broadband, service adoption, vni, VNI-SA

By Kayvon Siadat, Guest Columnist The addition of online streaming content has helped KSCU 103.3, Santa Clara University’s non-profit, volunteer run radio station, tremendously.  Before the radio station had this technology our listenership was limited to however far our radio signal would go, which is, give or take 30 miles in any direction. Now with advances in technology we are able to deliver our content to anyone in the world at any time. …

Read More >>

Tags: KSCU, online streaming, radio, service adoption, vni, VNI-SA

…ting.  This is a perfect platform to help the team feel connected and actually get to know their co-workers who are hundreds of miles away. Exploring Multipoint Video Collaboration Benefits Our next step involved bringing our 12 board members from around the country together visually for our monthly board meetings.  I call this the “Hollywood Squares” approach to video conferencing.  On each of our computer screens, we have a small, square shot o…

Read More >>

Tags: collaboration, NTCA, rural broadband, telecommunications, video conferencing, vni, VNI-SA

…will be over 7.1 billion mobile-connected devices, including machine-to-machine (M2M) modules, in 2015-approximately equal to the world’s population in 2015 (7.2 billion). Mobile network connection speeds will increase 10-fold by 2015. The average mobile network connection speed (215 kbps in 2010) will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 60 percent, and will exceed 2.2 megabits per second (Mbps) in 2015. Two-thirds of the world’…

Read More >>

Tags: data, forecast, mobile, Networks, traffic, trends, video, visual networking index