Hey guys, The OCP Telco group is formulating its charter and it includes technologies for the access network. While not typical wireless or wireline access network, there may be a better fit over there to cover WIFI. Perhaps Craig White who is holding the lead can comment.
Dev From: opencompute-networking-boun...@lists.opencompute.org [mailto:opencompute-networking-boun...@lists.opencompute.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Catlin Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 7:30 AM To: Ayham Ereksousi; Carlos Cardenas Cc: Rajat Ghai; opencompute-networking@lists.opencompute.org Subject: Re: [Opencompute-networking] Work Item proposal for OCP Wi-Fi AP Obviously we would be interested in participating as well ☺ Jeffrey D Catlin Associate Vice President of Technology Accton Technology Corporation jeff_cat...@accton.com<mailto:jeff_cat...@accton.com> 603-531-1286 From: Ayham Ereksousi [mailto:ayham.erekso...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 10:19 PM To: Carlos Cardenas Cc: Rajat Ghai; opencompute-networking@lists.opencompute.org<mailto:opencompute-networking@lists.opencompute.org>; Jeff Catlin; Rajat Ghai Subject: Re: [Opencompute-networking] Work Item proposal for OCP Wi-Fi AP I'm interested in Wi-Fi subgroup. Ayham On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 8:09 PM, Carlos Cardenas <car...@cumulusnetworks.com<mailto: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<mailto: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 _______________________________________________ opencompute-networking mailing list Unsubscribe: http://lists.opencompute.org/mailman/options/opencompute-networking opencompute-networking@lists.opencompute.org<mailto:opencompute-networking@lists.opencompute.org> http://lists.opencompute.org/mailman/listinfo/opencompute-networking
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