It’s always hard to explain Telco tribulations to the younger generation. My father was doing his first stint in regulatory when the CarterFone decision occurred, and he thought he was going to see all sorts of charlatan devices attached to his network. When people came up to me just after session controllers came out to ask if they needed these devices, I answered specifically, “If, when you talk about networks you use the word ‘ours’ or ‘theirs’ then my answer is yes; if you think of the Internet as ‘the Network’, then no.”
Today we have such services as FiOS and Optimum WiFi, which basically strive to avoid your having to employ extra network gear, allowing you to instead use their network for access to the Internet. And we have services such as Apple TV, Google’s Chromecast, Microsoft Xbox, etc. which expect open access to an unfettered Internet. For the sake of conversation we will hold the Netflix / Comcast solution to the end, and focus upfront on those folks that have homebound devices. These devices, which assume unrestricted Internet access, should regard Aereo as a wedge that makes such access measurable.
So what is Aereo and why should more of us get onboard with it? Aereo is a server farm in the cloud that provides a private VPN-like service to customers that want to watch their local broadcast TV stations. It is a strictly broadcast area solution in which the service you buy is the service you get. Like Slingbox, Aereo requires a device for retransmitting signals, but unlike Slingbox it resides “in the cloud” which is in the broadcast area (for instance, I am in New Jersey while the service is Brooklyn). Customers cannot buy service from outside their local area...Read More
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Rory J. Thompson 
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