Hey Rajat,
I don't think you're jumping the gun (carpe diem and such).
As one the few members that have expertise in this field, would y'all mind
assist in steering this 'sub-group'?
Is there any interest from others willing to participate in the wireless
subgroup?
+--+
Carlos
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Rajat Ghai <rajatg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I might be jumping the gun here a little bit , however we @ Benu Networks
> are very interested in pursuing, facilitating & participating in Open
> Branch platforms (specially an Open Wi-Fi AP).
>
> We believe that open desegregated Wi-Fi AP can kickstart a new wave of
> innovation that can radically disrupt the branch office / SMB , similar to
> what is already been happening to OCP based Data Center Switching.
>
> We would love to open up a discussion in the group and see if we can find
> fellow travelers to join us. As a starting point we'd like to offer a high
> level proposal the looks like the one shown below :
>
>
>
> Wi-Fi APs are not your typical switches as 802.11 has big WLAN (RF)
> component that needs a whole different class of management e.g.
>
> - ICM : Interference Counter Measure (Ability to automate interference
> mitigation)
> - 802.1r fast mobility (Ability to provide fast handovers from one AP to
> another) ,
> - 802.11k handoff steering (Ability to interact with user
> devices for AP attach)
> - Band steering policies (2.4 Ghz v/s 5 GHz)
> - Network (SSID) steering policies (Virtual SSID scenarios)
> - Other Network policies like MCS threshold settings for better QoE &
> Service discovery
> - Wi-Fi Telemetry,
>
> Apart from WLAN specific interface, the Wi-Fi AP also has networking setup
> (bridges, tunnels etc.)
> that are also common to non-Wi-Fi capable branch switches .
>
> Finally, Wi-Fi APs also require to have a branch IP router capability that
> includes other networking stacks that are not present in DC switches e.g.
> UPnP (DLNA), PCP etc.
>
> We could create a SAI equivalent for Branch {in this case i have called it
> *A-SAI
> i.e. AP SAI*) ; Such SAI would be common to all Wi-Fi SoCs e.g. from
> Broadcom , Qualcomm, Intel etc.
>
> If the group agrees to move it forward, we (Benu) would be happy to
> facilitate the process as well as contribute user land components mentioned
> above.
>
> BR
> Rajat Ghai
> CTO
> Benu Networks
>
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