Re: [WISPA] Mobility and Roaming was: Wifi outperforms Cellular and Wimax

2009-03-09 Thread Chuck Bartosch
We have hot spot roaming agreements with some of our local competitors. It's not the full monty you're describing, but it does mean that a subscriber on competitor A can log onto my network without paying any additional fees and vice versa. Right now we don't do any settlement because it's n

Re: [WISPA] Mobility and Roaming was: Wifi outperforms Cellular and Wimax

2009-03-08 Thread John Scrivner
> > The problems are numerous. Building a scalable solution that will fit > multiple operators is a real challenge.  Some of the challenges will > potentially require you and your proposed partner to make significant > network design changes.  If you have an interest in such a project, > let's get

Re: [WISPA] Mobility and Roaming was: Wifi outperforms Cellular and Wimax

2009-03-08 Thread Butch Evans
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 19:12 -0600, John Scrivner wrote: > Sadly WISPs have dragged their feet in development of true mobility > and roaming. There are many reasons for this, some of which make roaming a near impossibility. I have some customers who are doing some things that are very near to one

Re: [WISPA] Mobility and Roaming was: Wifi outperforms Cellular and Wimax

2009-03-06 Thread John Scrivner
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Blair Davis wrote: > This is an interesting idea > > But,  different operating frequency's,  different proprietary equipment, I'm > not sure it is practical.  One of my 'neighbors' uses Canopy on 900MHz. > Another is using Trango on 900MHz, I think.  Another is

Re: [WISPA] Mobility and Roaming was: Wifi outperforms Cellular and Wimax

2009-03-06 Thread Blair Davis
This is an interesting idea But,  different operating frequency's,  different proprietary equipment, I'm not sure it is practical.  One of my 'neighbors' uses Canopy on 900MHz.  Another is using Trango on 900MHz, I think.  Another is 2.4GHz 802.11b/g.  I use 2.4GHz, some b/g, some propriet

[WISPA] Mobility and Roaming was: Wifi outperforms Cellular and Wimax

2009-03-06 Thread John Scrivner
Sadly WISPs have dragged their feet in development of true mobility and roaming. These features are the true differentiators of wireless broadband over DSL or DOCSIS. The cellular industry is more quickly adapting to the need to move to an IP centric platform for their mobile voice/data systems tha