I'm interested in Wi-Fi subgroup.
Ayham
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 8:09 PM, Carlos Cardenas <car...@cumulusnetworks.com
> wrote:
> 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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