Saturday, August 22, 2020

Organizational commitment of employee

Authoritative duty of worker The hypothesis identifying with worker responsibility to his association has gotten expanding prevalence as it will assist the organization with retaining more staff and in this manner increment in execution, efficiency and benefit. Responsibility of staff is significant for a few reasons, it will at last lessen worker turnover. Exceptionally dedicated representatives will in general work for proficiently than less dedicated workers with more employment fulfillment. Duty of representatives is a superior marker of adequacy of an association. Hierarchical duty can be alluded to as a people distinguishing proof with and contribution in the particular organization. It tends to be described by at least three markers, for example, Acceptance of the organization objectives and qualities. Besides capacity and readiness to contribute significant exertion to accomplish that objectives and values lastly powerful urge to proceed with the organization. The idea of the activity is assuming an essential job in authoritative duty. Despite the fact that few examinations are led relating orgainzational duty and Job structure representative efficiency and execution numerous parts of the subject are as yet not secured. Disposition of representatives or the inspiration to work in connection with work fulfillment and authoritative duty are significant in the field of human asset the board and hierarchical conduct point of view. Representative disposition directly affects all parts of business. Authoritative responsibility focuses on all out enthusiasm of the representative towards the association as opposed to work. There is a connection between hierarchical duty and employment fulfillment, responsibility prompts work fulfillment anyway most examinations treat duty and fulfillment in an unexpected way. Directors and advisors over the globe accept that an organization can't accomplish it points and goals without suffering responsibility from all staff of the association. Representative inspiration is a key component that decide the level of responsibility towards work. This incorporate all the components that make continue and channelize human conduct to a specific heading called work. Inspiration is expected as something worth being thankful for one can't feel to be a decent circumstance on the off chance that one isn't spurred enough. Authoritative conduct is an enormous idea of the executives that reviews how individuals act in an association. The board can utilize logical speculations in regards to social practice to adequately improve their connection with workers and improve in general goals of the association. Authoritative conduct is an interdisciplinary subject that incorporate thoughts and research from human conduct and connection. Hierarchical Commitment Hierarchical responsibility is a bond which connecting its workers to the organization or association. In United States workers are less dedicated to associations than in Japan or somewhere else in Asia. Usually a few workers shows a lot of responsibility and acknowledgment to the objectives and estimations of the organization and they additionally demonstrates a powerful urge to keep up the enrollment in the association. Meyer and Allen (1997) call this type of responsibility to the association emotional duty. Another gathering of representatives shows attributes of standardizing methods of duty (Wiener,1982). As per Wiener this gatherings of staff doesn't appear or build up an extremely compelling passionate connection or duty to the association. How ever representatives who has more elevated levels of these kinds of duty keeps on trying sincerely and with great profitability. This is a result of an all out impact of their social, reasoning, family and hierarchical morals than direct their conduct. A third segment of representatives stay in the association not in light of any devotion or responsibility to the association but since they have no other elective occupation accessible or on the off chance that they put a lot in the organization that they cannot leave. As indicated by Meyer and Allen this appear as residency, status, retirement advantage, and some other type of advantages. The third type of authoritative responsibility introduced initially by Becker in 1960 is alluded to as continuation duty. Meyer researched a portion of the components prompting the choice of a person to participate in an association and their resultant responsibility. The more the worker can coordinate his characteristics and aptitudes with the activity and its condition the better his activity fulfillment and the better his dedication also. Various examinations shows that association duty can predicts numerous factors, for example, non-appearance, hierarchical citizenship, execution and turnover. An essential part of hierarchical duty can be additional job conduct. This implies representatives go past their activity details and done a bonus. The greater part of the administrations acknowledge activities by the representatives, this demonstrates their dedication and inspirational disposition to the organization. However, not many of the administration experts contend that sets of expectations can viable portray all the parts of crafted by a representative. Hierarchical responsibility brought about progressively positive results, it decreases non-attendance and it improves and advances work fulfillment. Numerous organizations changing from basic work frameworks to profoundly inspiring high responsibility work frameworks that needs high prudence, inspiration with less oversight from the board. It includes more jobs to repr esentatives with the goal that their innovativeness and working effectiveness would improve, this prompts elite and occupation fulfillment. While learning about hierarchical responsibility different components ought to be considered. A portion of this components incorporate age, sexual orientation and life span of administrations of the worker, and Human asset the board rehearses followed inside the association and authoritative qualities. Methodologies of propelling Employees Compensation: Salary can be one of the best factor impacting inspiration and employment fulfillment. For utilizing compensation as inspiration factor chiefs must consider a few factors, for example, work rate, individual stipends, length of administration, execution, individual qualities and so on. Motivations: Money has the ability to draw in and hold. Giving different kinds of motivators will keep staff spurred and better dedicated to the association. Essentially every staff is working for a type of money related advantage, so the fiscal advantage paid to the representatives ought to be sufficiently spread their way of life and serious enough in the business in any case worker turnover will be higher for the organization and the current representatives won't be persuaded, rather disappointed workers cause decreased responsibility to the association. So the board must take adequate intrigue and care to keep up their workers with great compensation and impetuses it will assist with improving authoritative duty. Staff preparing : This is a significant inspirational factor for all the associations It is a vital technique for propelling workers. This will give data with most recent turn of events and advancements in their particular field of work. So the representatives will feel sure and outfitted with new solidarity to work all the more successfully and experimentally, eventually it will expand inspiration and efficiency. Data and correspondence: Availability of data with respect to the outcomes of ones activity on others help to keep representatives spurred. Nearby and national culture and its effects on disposition towards work inspirational demeanor towards work prompts versatility It implies the solidarity to rapidly soothe from antagonistic conditions or disappointment. In the event that one individual is seeing disappointment as a learning opportunity as opposed to accusing themselves or others they can before long come out of the disappointment and have the option to effective in a limited capacity to focus time. Good faith: Through hopeful methodology one can accomplish achievement throughout everyday life and calling. You will have the option to impact the world and there by getting fruitful in whatever you doing. In view of these highlights each representative ought to build up a hopeful way to deal with whatever he is doing in the association. It will assist with creating hierarchical duty and better inspiration. Certainty: Confidence coming out of idealistic methodology. In the event that you are sure you have faith in yourself and are prepared to attempt new difficulties. Certain representatives is a resource for the association and they will assist with improving inspiration not exclusively to themselves yet in addition all the individuals identified with them with their work so the whole association will keep roused and better execution will be the outcome. Inventiveness Positive perspectives are critical to advance thing and there by development. Without every one of these characteristics nobody will have the option to attempt to actualize new business thoughts. Compromise: In present day world each individual is experiencing part of intrigue struggle with each other. Compromise is one of the significant characteristics expected to endure. An inspirational demeanor towards ones work and friends will expand a specialists proficiency to compromise. Passionate knowledge: It is the capacity or ability to oversee ones feelings and to control conduct. Enthusiastic knowledge incorporate individual capability, for example, mindfulness, self guideline and self inspiration and social ability, for example, social aptitudes and social mindfulness. Accomplishment drives: Positive mentality towards work additionally increment accomplishment drive. Inspiration: Motivation and uplifting demeanor towards work go connected at the hip. The board Philosophy and Organizational Commitment in Retail Industry: In India there an in excess of 100 major retail shopping centers are working and various retail places are being worked on. The engineers are not stressed over the retailers and they are not doing anything towards the special side of these shopping centers, yet in numerous different nations particularly in Europe this isn't the situation. Therefore the marking, promoting, planning and the budgetary side of running gainfully of these retail places expertly has a lot of degree in developin

Thursday, July 16, 2020

Peel

Peel INTRODUCTIONMartin: Hi! Today we are in Mountain View with Peel. Thiru, hi.Thiru: Nice to see you.Martin: What do you do?Thiru: Well, I am one of the co-founders of Peel and we’ll talk about Peel itself in a second. But what do I do is I wake up and live my dream every single day. This is my dream and I say that to every employees who comes in and say hey how’s he doing, how’s your day and I’ll be like I’m living my dream.Martin: Awesome. Tell me a little bit about how youve started this company.Thiru:   Yeah,  I think there’s a commonality in a lot of people starting up companies today. While that specific idea that they work on eventually  catches on, gets traction and scales, but more importantly this is a much more human drive that you’re trying to do something different, that you’re trying to prove something either to yourself or to someone else because nobody else cares about what you’re trying to prove. But I think there is a completely different internal d rive that forces you.I used to work at Apple for ten years and I remember going to the cafeteria at 12:20 and seeing Steve Jobs come in almost every day and I was so inspired to see him. But then I asked myself: Why not me?, Why not go out and do something? And you know I got together with co-founder Bala and we tried various different ideas to be honest and this is what Finally, we both loved entertainment and we both went to the same film school and weâ€"Martin: After your time at Apple?Thiru: After my time at Apple, Bala and I both went to film school and we loved media and entertainment, and making people happy, and TV in a living room space, and mobile phones sport was just about to take off at that time. So we said well, why don’t we try to do something and build something for ourselves and I’m fortunate to see that 128 million people now continue to use that product. So that was the initial part of the journey.Martin: How much failured ideas did it take to build it?Thiru: Oh my God, oh my God, yeah We did crazy stuff, like we were going to source an mp3 alarm clock from Alibaba, and actually Alibaba is an investors right now, and sell it in the USA. I remember Bala having an idea of electric cars are going to become a huge hit, so every parking lot how do we make the electric car just go and automatically just park and charge itself. Or why do I have to get soap separately and then wash it like this. Is there a way to make it simpler.Maybe ten different ideas, but truly the time spent was probably on three ideas. We try to do something in the product placement, advertisement space, but finally we found out that it is very hard to build a consumer business, but once you’ve built it the height you get is unbelievable. Being able to touch 128 million people, there is nothing compared to that.Martin:   When you started, did you raise funding immediately, or did you first try the bootstrap to show some traction?Thiru: Fortunately, we had a friend at t hat time who’s now on the board of the company and he was about to become a venture capitalists. So fortunately, very early on we were able to raise very little money, maybe five thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars. Fortunately, we always focus Because I’m a firm believer that if you’re going to build high growth business you have to raise capital. You can bootstrap and get to a certain point. But unless you get that kind of a hockey stick growth, you’re not going to be able to build a really high growth start up. So fortunately, we’ve been able to raise money from day one actually.Martin: Great.BUSINESS MODELMartin: Let’s talk about the business model of your company.Thiru: Sure.Martin: Can you please elaborate on your customer segments?Thiru: When we talk about customer, the first set of folks that are super crucial to the ecosystem is our community of users. They use our apps, day in, day out to control everything in their  living room and they find the TV shows a nd tune into the TV show. For example, there is a very famous TV show called Conan OBrien who gets about 800,000 viewers every night and we can increase his rating by 15% with a scale that we have. So we go to the TV studios and we tell them, Why do you put out an Ad on a billboard or on freeway saying new show premiering this fall or this summer. Who cares, because its not being targeted it’s not measurable, it’s not accountable”. So we tell them, “You advertised on the remote control platform on smartphones, we will actually be able to report back how many people tuned into the show and stayed for five minutes”. In fact, recently Forbes magazine published an article where we actually predicted how many of the TV shows, how  many of the new fall TV shows that just recently premiered will stay on here or not depending on the pilot. You know, fifteen minutes into the show, how many people are continuing to stay with the show or switching the channel. That is a huge indicati on of whether that shows will be successful or not. So the community of users is an important part and we distribute our application through the OEM such as Samsung, HTC, LG and some of these folks. But ultimately, our customers the folks that we actually offer our advertisement business model  are the agencies and the studios that promote their TV shows. They are our customers and that’s our primary business model at this pointing time.Martin: The Interesting thing is, currently if you say the community which is basically the mobile phone users mainlyâ€"Thiru: YesMartin: â€"and then you have the advertisers. Totally understood. And then you have maybe the content producers. Because I’ve  heard from another start up they are that able to also predict whether a movies is going to come hit or not. Because movie production is super expensive and maybe the same has been true for this (Peel) where you are recommending TV shows.Thiru: Absolutely, we actually waited for an entire yea r, because we predicted last year, we did not actually make it public and we looked at how many of those TV shows actually stayed on air  and not, and how accurate we were. And this year our model is so well developed and our data science reason behind it has gotten so high fidelity that we went out and actually said that certain shows will actually stay on air, or not.Absolutely I think, I think a lot of focus is going to start becoming on the pilot. And Madison Square Garden runs the big process called Upfront where a lot of dollars get committed and I think they’re going to start demanding to look at pilot and how do people get into the pilot into the first 15 minutes or so. And I understand what you’re talking about the movie as well.Martin:   Are you currently only targeting the normal TV set or also other devices where you can consume content?Thiru: Great question. So, when we talk about normal TV set it’s the traditional TV system that you see TV and setup box on the br oadcast. So, we actually don’t care whether people end up watching TV using their live TV or a broadcast or they end up watching Netflix or streaming. We are actually all about pointing you to your right TV show, regardless of what kind of TV you have. You might have a chrome cast in which case we’ll switch and get you to your TV show. Our focus is enabling you to discover the TV show and get to it; so, discovery and control.A lot of our current success, how we actually enable the broken broadcast TV system into enabling a really awesome experience to be able to get to that TV show. We’re going to take that same experience and get into that streaming  experience as well. And when you talk about TV, we’re also thinking about not just What if we actually expand beyond controlling these devices,What if we control these lights and thermostats and locks. So we think we have a natural advantage of being in the couch and having access to these many users and can be actually now tak e advantage of that and control all the appliances and the devices in the home.Martin: Because from my perspective, you could go two basic ways. Either you go and stay in the home and extend to further application. Or second option is Okay, I will focus on the content stuff and then I go to every trial.Thiru:  On the train or on the bus. I think we are more home driven company I would say.Martin: Okay, I think one of the core things from my perception is the recommendation engine. Can you elaborate on that and what type of data are you using?Thiru: One thing that we found out and I can clarify this with a lot of other thought leaders in the space, whether its is folks from Amazon or from Netflix. Even though search is now possible in the TV space when you come home and if you thought of an use case where: Wouldn’t it be cool if he’s just searching 49ers game or a Manchester United game, People are not searching. People do not like to use search when it comes to their living roo m. And there is some sort of psychological reason behind it.Because TV is such a laid back experience and for some reason consumers tend to lower their IQ to such a low level because they are unwinding and and they’re relaxing, so they’re not searching it. Essentially then the only other option available to actually let them discover is some sort of personalization or recommendation or artificial intelligence. And that is a hard nut to crack in the media space, because it is really hard to predict on a Saturday you’ll be in a certain mood, you’re ready to engage on a long commitment of a movie or on a  Monday night you’ll actually looking for that football game or on the normal weekday you’re catching up on your shows that you want to catch up, and its quite hard.So we use your past viewing history, social graph, but also some elements of human curation. Human curation is actually quite effective. We use social twitter signals and other signals and create this. We have a feedback system as to whether actually people tune into the show that we recommend, but also when we present certain option and they do not tune into. We actually look into that, when we present today seven to eight options and the consumer did not choose any of that. Well, in which case we need to go back and actually fine tune the algorithm.Martin: So let’s talk about advertising.Thiru: Sure.Martin: What types of companies are advertising? Because if you look at only mobile devices, you would rather assume that the major share really would be TV shows just promoting a ‘hey please watch me’.Thiru: That’s a good question. That is the sort of endemic bread and butter of our business. Because it such a fit between the TV shows wanting to promote and we have a captive audience of people sitting in front of TV and saying I’m here ready to be sold on a product and the product itself is a TV show. Its just perfect, and consumers actually do not mind it and they actually don’t even feel like its an advertisement even though we make it explicit. But brands are also extremely  impressed and interest in working with us.The way that we actually bring into brands is we actually Say for example Coors Lite actually worked with us in promoting the Lakers game or the basket ball game, because they actually sponsored the actual game. So if we get the viewers to their game, there’s more Coors obviously on TV and there’s more sponsorship but they are actually interested in working with both the first screen and the second screen, and driving viewership. So we would say: Tonights basket ball game is brought to you by Coors Light. Tap Here to change the channel and  go there. But we are trying to really crack the brands. And the first wave of our progress  has been around the TV shows and tuning in. There, I think, we have a really unique offering and nobody else can offer that. And for brands we are just starting to scale up that business.Martin:   And are you on ly focusing on performance advertising or is it more also brand advertising?Thiru:  Great  question. In fact actually we are the only ones who can actually provide brand performance right now. But unfortunately,  as you may or may not know about the ad industry is that they’re not completely equiped to do a hundred percent performance oriented spend. So these are executed as campaigns. So you might start of week ahead and try to tell the consumer theres a new TV show coming out and educate about who’s acting on it, and provide them with a sneak peak and things like that. but maybe a day before the show you remind them and set up a program (the DVR set up a reminder), or five minutes before the show you tell them Hey, the show on, you want to tune in. So it is a combination of that. But I think the world we go more and more towards automatically purchasing user advertisements, but also going more and more towards data driven performance in living room which was never possible bef ore.Martin: Did you get an auction advertising platforms like Facebook did?Thiru: Great Question. So I don’t think we’re there yet from both from the scale of how big the purchase part of it, but I think that would be the ultimate vision to have a lot of people compete to get into certain night. TV has a certain element to it: there are only so many shows in a night. But that’s the ultimate goal if we can get there. There still some work going on, but right now we don’t do auction we are having a direct sale method right now.Martin: Ok, cool. When did you stop the advertising? Because I would assume that it started like maybe after two years or x-million amount of users.Thiru: I think in the USA, theres sort of a thumb rule that you want to wait till at least 10 million monthly active users before you start cracking it. The advertising business has been less than 11-12 months old right now. But we’re crushing it in terms of quarter-over-quarter growth. In terms of revenues it is phenomenal. And especially the fit is very good and people sort of coming back and buying more is a phenomenon that were actually continuing seeing.Martin:  What I really like that it seems to be very synergistic.Thiru: There thats right word, yes.Martin: Cool. Let say with advertising.For example, because the user, you can identify them easily based on their device ID or something like this. The second thing is you know exactly when he’s switching the channel. If then on the other hand have all the TV shows and advertisements spots and then you match them over time; and then you can also do some pattern analysis and say: This advertisement at this time with these conditions is not working And then even you could broaden the advertisement market place. Are you currently working on something like this?Thiru: Yep, so that is the excitement behind the company. I have to approach this from both sides, ultimately it has to produce the value for the consumer and it has to use th eir viewing behavior in the right way. But I think this is what you just said has never been done before. And there’s a lot of excitement around the company But im sorry it’s a great idea.Martin: Cool. You currently have 128 million users. Are they only in the US or?Thiru: We’re global. We are one of the very few  mobile first, global first companies. Our website product is not on the web. Our product is a one hundred percent mobile product. We are in a hundred and seven countries. We’re in Germany, but a third of the user bases in the US a third is in  Asia,   dominated by China and the rest of it is in the rest of the World Europe and South America and other places.Martin: Cool, great.ADVICE TO ENTREPRENEURS FROM THIRU In Mountain View (CA), we meet co-founder and CEO of Peel, Thiru Arunachalam. Thiru talks about his story how he came up with the idea and founded Peel, how the current business model works, as well as he provides some advice for young entrepreneurs.INTRODUCTIONMartin: Hi! Today we are in Mountain View with Peel. Thiru, hi.Thiru: Nice to see you.Martin: What do you do?Thiru: Well, I am one of the co-founders of Peel and we’ll talk about Peel itself in a second. But what do I do is I wake up and live my dream every single day. This is my dream and I say that to every employees who comes in and say hey how’s he doing, how’s your day and I’ll be like I’m living my dream.Martin: Awesome. Tell me a little bit about how youve started this company.Thiru:   Yeah,  I think there’s a commonality in a lot of people starting up companies today. While that specific idea that they work on eventually  catches on, gets traction and scales, but more importantly this is a much more human drive that you’re trying to do something different, that you’re trying to prove something either to yourself or to someone else because nobody else cares about what you’re trying to prove. But I think there is a completely different internal drive that forces you.I used to work at Apple for ten years and I remember going to the cafeteria at 12:20 and seeing Steve Jobs come in almost every day and I was so inspired to see him. But then I asked myself: Why not me?, Why not go out and do something? And you know I got together with co-founder Bala and we tried various different ideas to be honest and this is what Finally, we both loved entertainment and we both went to the same film school and weâ€"Martin: After your time at Apple?Thiru: After my time at Apple, Bala and I both went to film school and we loved media and entertainment, and making people happy, and TV in a living room space, and mobile phones sport was just about to take off at that time. So we said well, why don’ t we try to do something and build something for ourselves and I’m fortunate to see that 128 million people now continue to use that product. So that was the initial part of the journey.Martin: How much failured ideas did it take to build it?Thiru: Oh my God, oh my God, yeah We did crazy stuff, like we were going to source an mp3 alarm clock from Alibaba, and actually Alibaba is an investors right now, and sell it in the USA. I remember Bala having an idea of electric cars are going to become a huge hit, so every parking lot how do we make the electric car just go and automatically just park and charge itself. Or why do I have to get soap separately and then wash it like this. Is there a way to make it simpler.Maybe ten different ideas, but truly the time spent was probably on three ideas. We try to do something in the product placement, advertisement space, but finally we found out that it is very hard to build a consumer business, but once you’ve built it the height you get i s unbelievable. Being able to touch 128 million people, there is nothing compared to that.Martin:   When you started, did you raise funding immediately, or did you first try the bootstrap to show some traction?Thiru: Fortunately, we had a friend at that time who’s now on the board of the company and he was about to become a venture capitalists. So fortunately, very early on we were able to raise very little money, maybe five thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars. Fortunately, we always focus Because I’m a firm believer that if you’re going to build high growth business you have to raise capital. You can bootstrap and get to a certain point. But unless you get that kind of a hockey stick growth, you’re not going to be able to build a really high growth start up. So fortunately, we’ve been able to raise money from day one actually.Martin: Great.BUSINESS MODELMartin: Let’s talk about the business model of your company.Thiru: Sure.Martin: Can you please elaborate on your cu stomer segments?Thiru: When we talk about customer, the first set of folks that are super crucial to the ecosystem is our community of users. They use our apps, day in, day out to control everything in their  living room and they find the TV shows and tune into the TV show. For example, there is a very famous TV show called Conan OBrien who gets about 800,000 viewers every night and we can increase his rating by 15% with a scale that we have. So we go to the TV studios and we tell them, Why do you put out an Ad on a billboard or on freeway saying new show premiering this fall or this summer. Who cares, because its not being targeted it’s not measurable, it’s not accountable”. So we tell them, “You advertised on the remote control platform on smartphones, we will actually be able to report back how many people tuned into the show and stayed for five minutes”. In fact, recently Forbes magazine published an article where we actually predicted how many of the TV shows, how  m any of the new fall TV shows that just recently premiered will stay on here or not depending on the pilot. You know, fifteen minutes into the show, how many people are continuing to stay with the show or switching the channel. That is a huge indication of whether that shows will be successful or not. So the community of users is an important part and we distribute our application through the OEM such as Samsung, HTC, LG and some of these folks. But ultimately, our customers the folks that we actually offer our advertisement business model  are the agencies and the studios that promote their TV shows. They are our customers and that’s our primary business model at this pointing time.Martin: The Interesting thing is, currently if you say the community which is basically the mobile phone users mainlyâ€"Thiru: YesMartin: â€"and then you have the advertisers. Totally understood. And then you have maybe the content producers. Because I’ve  heard from another start up they are that a ble to also predict whether a movies is going to come hit or not. Because movie production is super expensive and maybe the same has been true for this (Peel) where you are recommending TV shows.Thiru: Absolutely, we actually waited for an entire year, because we predicted last year, we did not actually make it public and we looked at how many of those TV shows actually stayed on air  and not, and how accurate we were. And this year our model is so well developed and our data science reason behind it has gotten so high fidelity that we went out and actually said that certain shows will actually stay on air, or not.Absolutely I think, I think a lot of focus is going to start becoming on the pilot. And Madison Square Garden runs the big process called Upfront where a lot of dollars get committed and I think they’re going to start demanding to look at pilot and how do people get into the pilot into the first 15 minutes or so. And I understand what you’re talking about the movie as well.Martin:   Are you currently only targeting the normal TV set or also other devices where you can consume content?Thiru: Great question. So, when we talk about normal TV set it’s the traditional TV system that you see TV and setup box on the broadcast. So, we actually don’t care whether people end up watching TV using their live TV or a broadcast or they end up watching Netflix or streaming. We are actually all about pointing you to your right TV show, regardless of what kind of TV you have. You might have a chrome cast in which case we’ll switch and get you to your TV show. Our focus is enabling you to discover the TV show and get to it; so, discovery and control.A lot of our current success, how we actually enable the broken broadcast TV system into enabling a really awesome experience to be able to get to that TV show. We’re going to take that same experience and get into that streaming  experience as well. And when you talk about TV, we’re also thinking about not j ust What if we actually expand beyond controlling these devices,What if we control these lights and thermostats and locks. So we think we have a natural advantage of being in the couch and having access to these many users and can be actually now take advantage of that and control all the appliances and the devices in the home.Martin: Because from my perspective, you could go two basic ways. Either you go and stay in the home and extend to further application. Or second option is Okay, I will focus on the content stuff and then I go to every trial.Thiru:  On the train or on the bus. I think we are more home driven company I would say.Martin: Okay, I think one of the core things from my perception is the recommendation engine. Can you elaborate on that and what type of data are you using?Thiru: One thing that we found out and I can clarify this with a lot of other thought leaders in the space, whether its is folks from Amazon or from Netflix. Even though search is now possible in the TV space when you come home and if you thought of an use case where: Wouldn’t it be cool if he’s just searching 49ers game or a Manchester United game, People are not searching. People do not like to use search when it comes to their living room. And there is some sort of psychological reason behind it.Because TV is such a laid back experience and for some reason consumers tend to lower their IQ to such a low level because they are unwinding and and they’re relaxing, so they’re not searching it. Essentially then the only other option available to actually let them discover is some sort of personalization or recommendation or artificial intelligence. And that is a hard nut to crack in the media space, because it is really hard to predict on a Saturday you’ll be in a certain mood, you’re ready to engage on a long commitment of a movie or on a  Monday night you’ll actually looking for that football game or on the normal weekday you’re catching up on your shows that yo u want to catch up, and its quite hard.So we use your past viewing history, social graph, but also some elements of human curation. Human curation is actually quite effective. We use social twitter signals and other signals and create this. We have a feedback system as to whether actually people tune into the show that we recommend, but also when we present certain option and they do not tune into. We actually look into that, when we present today seven to eight options and the consumer did not choose any of that. Well, in which case we need to go back and actually fine tune the algorithm.Martin: So let’s talk about advertising.Thiru: Sure.Martin: What types of companies are advertising? Because if you look at only mobile devices, you would rather assume that the major share really would be TV shows just promoting a ‘hey please watch me’.Thiru: That’s a good question. That is the sort of endemic bread and butter of our business. Because it such a fit between the TV shows wan ting to promote and we have a captive audience of people sitting in front of TV and saying I’m here ready to be sold on a product and the product itself is a TV show. Its just perfect, and consumers actually do not mind it and they actually don’t even feel like its an advertisement even though we make it explicit. But brands are also extremely  impressed and interest in working with us.The way that we actually bring into brands is we actually Say for example Coors Lite actually worked with us in promoting the Lakers game or the basket ball game, because they actually sponsored the actual game. So if we get the viewers to their game, there’s more Coors obviously on TV and there’s more sponsorship but they are actually interested in working with both the first screen and the second screen, and driving viewership. So we would say: Tonights basket ball game is brought to you by Coors Light. Tap Here to change the channel and  go there. But we are trying to really crack the brand s. And the first wave of our progress  has been around the TV shows and tuning in. There, I think, we have a really unique offering and nobody else can offer that. And for brands we are just starting to scale up that business.Martin:   And are you only focusing on performance advertising or is it more also brand advertising?Thiru:  Great  question. In fact actually we are the only ones who can actually provide brand performance right now. But unfortunately,  as you may or may not know about the ad industry is that they’re not completely equiped to do a hundred percent performance oriented spend. So these are executed as campaigns. So you might start of week ahead and try to tell the consumer theres a new TV show coming out and educate about who’s acting on it, and provide them with a sneak peak and things like that. but maybe a day before the show you remind them and set up a program (the DVR set up a reminder), or five minutes before the show you tell them Hey, the show on, you want to tune in. So it is a combination of that. But I think the world we go more and more towards automatically purchasing user advertisements, but also going more and more towards data driven performance in living room which was never possible before.Martin: Did you get an auction advertising platforms like Facebook did?Thiru: Great Question. So I don’t think we’re there yet from both from the scale of how big the purchase part of it, but I think that would be the ultimate vision to have a lot of people compete to get into certain night. TV has a certain element to it: there are only so many shows in a night. But that’s the ultimate goal if we can get there. There still some work going on, but right now we don’t do auction we are having a direct sale method right now.Martin: Ok, cool. When did you stop the advertising? Because I would assume that it started like maybe after two years or x-million amount of users.Thiru: I think in the USA, theres sort of a thumb rule that you want to wait till at least 10 million monthly active users before you start cracking it. The advertising business has been less than 11-12 months old right now. But we’re crushing it in terms of quarter-over-quarter growth. In terms of revenues it is phenomenal. And especially the fit is very good and people sort of coming back and buying more is a phenomenon that were actually continuing seeing.Martin:  What I really like that it seems to be very synergistic.Thiru: There thats right word, yes.Martin: Cool. Let say with advertising.For example, because the user, you can identify them easily based on their device ID or something like this. The second thing is you know exactly when he’s switching the channel. If then on the other hand have all the TV shows and advertisements spots and then you match them over time; and then you can also do some pattern analysis and say: This advertisement at this time with these conditions is not working And then even you could broaden the ad vertisement market place. Are you currently working on something like this?Thiru: Yep, so that is the excitement behind the company. I have to approach this from both sides, ultimately it has to produce the value for the consumer and it has to use their viewing behavior in the right way. But I think this is what you just said has never been done before. And there’s a lot of excitement around the company But im sorry it’s a great idea.Martin: Cool. You currently have 128 million users. Are they only in the US or?Thiru: We’re global. We are one of the very few  mobile first, global first companies. Our website product is not on the web. Our product is a one hundred percent mobile product. We are in a hundred and seven countries. We’re in Germany, but a third of the user bases in the US a third is in  Asia,   dominated by China and the rest of it is in the rest of the World Europe and South America and other places.Martin: Cool, great.ADVICE TO ENTREPRENEURS FROM THIRUMartin: Imagine a younger brother comes to you and say Hey, Thiru, I got a business idea, but Iim not sure whether I should pursue it. Can you give me any advice about starting a company?Thiru:   You know the first thing I tell people is like, Can you quit your job? And they say Wait, I don’t know. I don’t know if my idea is good enough to quit my job. Well, then your idea is not good enough.You have to able to tie your hunger or your survival to your success. I always tell this analogy that if you go to Circque So Soleli or one of those circus type shows,  you see those people who are actually coming down on a rope and then jumping onto the next rope. And if you notice, they’ll always tie their rope in such a way that you cannot hold them both together. So you have to let go one and then jump onto the other. So it’s really-really important that you actually give a hundred percent of your effort into whatever you’re putting in and think that this is the only option out. Because en trepreneurship is so hard that if you have a safety belt you’re going to push it like very quickly, like three months, six months.I actually started this interview by saying I live my dream. I’m saying that to my employees every single day because the process of dreaming is a very positive thing. You sort of like: Wouldn’t it be cool if did that? But the act of living it s extremely painful, extremely excruciating, because to make your dream come true you have to work your ass off like every single day. That’s why I say to people: I live my dream. There’s a positive connotation to it, but there’s also the fact that you have to work really-really hard to make it happen. So I think my only advice is like; If you going to do it give everything, but at the end of the day nothing is guaranteed. Success is not guaranteed. Destination is not guaranteed as much as cliché you got to just wake up and be happy about coming and touching these many people; whatever drives your passi on.Martin: And this number of people is what touching you right now?Thiru: Yeah,  that may be what energize you. Some people are energized by the fact that you’re making money or building a software. Some people believe is that this is the technology that they solve. Whatever motivates you, you have to give a hundred percent of that. I can sort of talk about fundraising and things like but the core is that you got to chase what drives you and chase the dream with everything that you have.Martin: Thiru, thank you very much.Thiru: You kept it very casual and it was fun.Martin: Awesome.Thiru: Awesome, thank you very much.Martin: Thank you and maybe next time you are thinking about: What should I watch? Just download   Peel   app and have a look at what it is recommending you. Awesome.Thiru: Awesome.Martin: See you.Thiru: Thank you very much.

Thursday, May 21, 2020

The End from the Begining Essay - 1063 Words

The Article the end from the beginning re (de)finding Aboriginality written by Michael Dodson explores the notions on how Aboriginal people have been represented and perceived by the early settlers. Michael Dodson makes a critique on the language from previous historians. They Mention in the beginning that the Aboriginal people were seen as Noble savages from the prehistoric beasts, blood thirsty, cunning ferocious† that they even fell in the classification of blood types which gives an idea of an animal like classification, scientific based and based purely on Age and descent. ( Dodson, 2003: 19-20). Michael Dodson Argues the question as to how can the colonisers understand all the aspects of the indigenous people if they†¦show more content†¦( Dodson 2003, 20-22) I agree with Michael Dodson through establishing the twin projects for Aboriginal people. The first twin project is self identification which is essential that the Aboriginal people to self identify themselves and to actually break away from the representations that the colonisers’ gave implied on them. Michael Dodson argues that one has the right to control their identity to broader the right to self identification ( Dodson 2003, pg 22) that he is trying to make the Aboriginal people to develop an identity of their own. A Positive reinforcement that Dodson has placed that is found in the article is the Un study that gave recognition for aboriginal people’s right and that they are being heard an has made an impact for Aboriginal people to find their own self identity and It is a way to ensure that Indigenous peoples can direct their cultural, economic and social development and participate fully in the democratic life of the entire community The Mirroring function acts as a reflection that Aboriginal people are always seen as the other that when they look it to that mirror all they see are the representations from the colonisers gaze. I believe that it is positive that Michael Dodson is providing the Aboriginal people with a sense of empowerment to become more independent and be recognised for their difference as they are always defined by. 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Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Why Risk It With The High Possibilities Of Life...

You lived a middle-class life for a good portion of your time, but now there’s no such thing. There is upper and lower-class, and you won’t allow your family to suffer in the latter part of the spectrum. This is you paying your family back after all they’ve done for you. It took much convincing to get them to allow you to take part in this. You’re a fifteen year old girl, after all. You have so much life ahead of you and so many more opportunities to pay off your debt. Why risk it with the high possibilities of life threatening results? Because. That’s all you have to say. You could go deeper, but you’re too close to the room to be worrying. You don’t want to turn back. The name tag around your neck reads â€Å"LAB RAT 005†. Fifth of many more to come. And they actually call you all lab rats. That’s a first as far as you’ve seen within the facility. As the youngest one yet - because no parent is willing to suffer the risk of death - you are at a higher risk of death. 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Diving and Changing the Wreck Free Essays

Adrienne Rich’s poem Diving into the Wreck   is filled with personal myth at the birth of herself, in either a literal of a metaphoric sense. I will rewrite Rich’s 4th and 5th stanza in order to better utilize her personal myth and to make it more succinct that she is speaking about birth. I will chiefly be using her syntax, but with different word choices and with a different number of lines for each stanza. We will write a custom essay sample on Diving and Changing the Wreck or any similar topic only for you Order Now I breath in blue air, That only gets bluer the more I come out of that dark place. I delve into my subconscious, my unconscious, my primordial mind that only infants still posses. I am born. I am powerful, full of blood and air and crying it all out of me and into me Again and again. I am the sea of her, For in the sea of my mother I saw the beginning of me. This alone is my story, Something deep In the elemental self. And now: I remember less Of my purpose In this outside world That is beyond an umbilical chord That ties me faithfully to my mother. And yet†¦ I belong here too, just as my lungs adjust To this new sea So too does my vision. I see reformed coral reefs, And even though I breathe and eat outside of my mother I am still there And here, breathing just a little bit differently. Works Cited Rich, Adrienne. (1973). Diving into the Wreck. Online. 28 March 2009. Poets.Org.   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15228 How to cite Diving and Changing the Wreck, Papers

Saturday, April 25, 2020

Wireless Communication Technologies and Issues

Wireless communication is among the recent technologies that have been developed. According to Deal (2008), wireless network is computer network that is connected without the use of cables. It has made internet accessible to individuals in all locations hence the problem of internet access has been solved.Advertising We will write a custom research paper sample on Wireless Communication Technologies and Issues specifically for you for only $16.05 $11/page Learn More On the other hand, wired network has limitations in that it is difficult to spread it to different locations because of its static nature. However, it is sometimes preferred to wireless network. Wireless network makes it possible for the incorporation of the most recent technologies like Wi-Max and Wi-Fi which provide reliable, efficient and faster internet access. Based on these factors, wireless network has many advantages for its users. Both wireless and wired networks are implemented thro ugh hardware systems. The hardware applied to implement wireless network is determined by the scope of the network and the importance of multiple access points. For instance, small wireless LAN is implemented through wireless broadcasting equipment that function as broadcasting channels. The workstation computers are then connected through equipment that detects the signal relayed through wireless radio. The use of wireless LAN spreads spectrum technologies with the aim of enhancing end user mobility. It utilizes Wi-Fi which makes coverage of large areas possible. In addition, it is less susceptible to obstacles. It is also effective in terms of signal transmission since it does not require cables, a factor that makes its transmission easy (Briere Hurley, 2010). One of the advantages of Wi-Fi is its scalability. Workstation PCs and other devices that have the capacity to detect signals from Wi-Fi normally establish a connection with Wi-Fi network through wireless access points. In home networks, wireless routers are used to increase accessibility. Router specifications make it possible for different devices to access home network. Improvements in technology have led to the development of IP version six, which has the capacity to support up to 16 bit addresses. It also increases the number of IP addresses assigned to devices in Wi-Fi network.Advertising Looking for research paper on communications media? Let's see if we can help you! Get your first paper with 15% OFF Learn More A high number of IP addresses is not mandatory for Wi-Fi networks to work as anticipated since they increase the network load. This problem is solved through the installation of multiple access points in Wi-Fi networks which distribute the load responsible for altering network functionality in cases of single access points (Deal, 2008). Employing two routers in home networks has a primary role of increasing access points in the networks. Basically, this increases the secu rity and performance of the network. In addition, routers offer an effective way through which home networks are expanded. They also eliminate the burden of network load. Multiple routers make it possible for home networks to undergo segmentation which is crucial in network management since it enables different configuration of segments based on what the users of individual segments require. Among the recent home networking trends is the need for integration of wireless and wired networks, which is the only appropriate method through which hybrid networks can be established. Two routers can be used to host wireless and wired networks. Hybrid networks may be applied to raise the network capacity by combining the benefits of wireless networks with those of wired networks. There are certain network situations that make the use of two routers necessary. For instance, the practicality of having Ethernet cables from the original router when there is a long distance between the host machin es and the router is often difficult. The problem is solved by linking two routers, where the primary and secondary routers are connected to form an entirely different network segment. Generally, multiple routers are vital in home networks since they address problems related to network performance, network stability, network security and network interactivity (Briere Hurley, 2010). Wi-Fi network is comprised of an infrastructure mode that establishes connectivity between wired and wireless networks through Ethernet cables. One of the advantages of this infrastructure mode is that it provides a single connection point for WLAN network clients. During its implementation, wireless access point is usually a key requirement.Advertising We will write a custom research paper sample on Wireless Communication Technologies and Issues specifically for you for only $16.05 $11/page Learn More For a successful connection of wide LAN, all the clients and points of ac cess under the wireless network are established to utilize a common Service Set Identifier (SSID). SSID functions as the network name under the LAN and its access is restricted through encryption. The access points for the wireless host machines are then linked with an Ethernet wired network with the aim of enabling the wireless hosts to access network resources like drives, printers and other network resources. The use of a common SSID facilitates inclusion of more wireless access points to the Wide LAN, which increases the network infrastructure access and enables the network to support many wireless networks (Deal, 2008). The advantages of network infrastructure mode include high network security which is enhanced through SSID encryption, increased scalability of the network since WLAN supports many wireless networks and enhanced platforms of network management among many other advantages. The only drawback associated with networking infrastructure is increased hardware acquisiti on costs. References Briere, D. Hurley, P. (2010). Wireless Home Networking For Dummies. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. Deal, R. (2008). Cisco Certified Network Associate study guide (exam 640-802). New York: McGraw-Hill Professional. This research paper on Wireless Communication Technologies and Issues was written and submitted by user Lina L. to help you with your own studies. You are free to use it for research and reference purposes in order to write your own paper; however, you must cite it accordingly. You can donate your paper here.