Just over a year ago, my employer announced an interesting effort to implement a 5G network as part of the electronic medical record (EMR) system migration to Epic. This led to a lot of internal speculation as to what we were going to get, as well as a lot of other hot takes that I […]
IOT: Adventures in 5G
One of the ways I avoid the burnout at work is to go on a related side quest. Today’s side quest is assembling a standalone network probe which can be used to keep an eye on a 5G/LTE APN that we are using at work. The introduction of the APN itself was quite the announcement […]
IPTV: A Handful of Concepts
In the comments of my last post on X, a fellow reader suggested that it would be helpful to go over some of the concepts surrounding IPTV to provide a bit better context around the previously diagnosed problems and discovery that accompanied my previous troubleshooting post. I have had the good fortune to work with […]
IPTV: Power, Tune, then Crash
End users start complaining about intermittent television freezing at a newly opened facility once business hours start.
Return of the Blog
I was thinking about how it’s been since I did any kind of a public blog. I figure it’s got to be somewhere around 15 years or so. Granted, a whole lot has changed over that time period. The tools are better today, and certainly the rise of social media as a platform has really […]