Just a fun blog this week. I really love my iPhone 3GS [1].
[2]And I really love my Hava TV streaming appliance [3]:
The Hava appliance, very similar to a Slingbox, is connected to my DirecTV HD DVR [4] and connected to my home LAN. I can stream the DirecTV picture to any PC in the house and a remote PC over the Internet (for example, like at work...not that I ever watch TV at work!). The Hava appliance PC software includes the ability to remote control the DirecTV box too.
So, anything that can be done on the DirecTV box I can control via the Hava PC software.
Then, last week, Hava released an app for the iPhone [5]!
Christmas definitely came early this year.
But there was one lump of coal in my stocking. The Hava iPhone app requires a WLAN connection. It will not run over AT&T's 3G network. Yeah, yeah, AT&T can't afford to allow streaming video over their wireless network (because their network suc....never mind).
So, I needed a way to fix this problem. Enter my new Verizon MiFi [6] which I am testing for work.
The MiFi creates a small, personal hotspot providing an 802.11b/g connection to clients - umm, like my iPhone running the Hava streaming software - with a 3G connection to the Internet via Verizon wireless. Now I can stream my DirecTV box to my iPhone wherever I am. Like while waiting for the car to get clean today I was watching NFL football from home.
[7]Now that's a network design worthy of the CCDE [8]!
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ANXeBusiness Plans Private Networking for Cloud Computing [11]
Cisco Steps Up to Solve a Problem [12]
I Have Not Been Consistent on Dual Vendors [13]
Cisco's New "Validated Architecture for Long Distance VMotion" is Cheap Marketing [14]
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