Connected and Smart Apartments

In this episode, we interview John Jardine, a Director with Deutsche Bank, a major participant in commercial mortgage backed securities. John discusses how his bank views technology improvements, such as complex-wide Wi-Fi networks, and how they can impact property valuation during a refinancing.

In this second part of our conversation with Dave Moore, senior director, Cambium Networks, we discuss what kind of bandwidth and download speeds apartment tenants need to stream 4K TV and use their mobile devices.

In this episode, we have the first of a two part conversation with Dave Moore, a senior director with Cambium Networks. Dave and I discuss several of the technical challenges associated with deploying Wi-Fi networks in apartments and how these can be overcome.

A discussion of FCC rule changes with Christina Marshall, partner, Haynes and Boone. The FCC is preparing to make changes to regulations that affect how telecom and cable companies offer their services to apartment tenants. We discuss what these changes are likely to be and how they will impact developers and tenants.

In this 20 minute episode we explore the phenomenon of cord cutting. We examine the technical and economic issues for this behavior. Comments from two Goldman Sachs analysts and the current FCC Chairman, Ajit Pai, help us get a better picture of why this is happening. And we conclude our episode with more segments of interviews with Millennial tenants.

In this opening episode, we discuss the connectivity habits of Millennials and how this is impacting their life in apartments. We interview several Millennial tenants, learn what their connectivity expectations and preferences are, and explore how this generation is changing the landscape of the telecom and cable industries.