Butch, with this list accepting my small excursion into what we do, the system isn't a proxy and is not installed in line with any traffic but is a 1U rack NOC-installed box. It must be associated with a router or switch which has all the subscribers downstream. Small slave devices, up to hundreds, can be distributed if the provider has a multiplicity of POPs...often the case when growth via acquisition has formed the ISP. It adds zero latency since no connections pass through it. It has multiple interfaces so can handle a multiplicity of simultaneous, even asymmetric, paths without extra hardware...up to multiple OC-192 connections.
No client is required and the display appears on any targeted account's PC, Mac, browser, etc., and passes gateways, cascaded NATs, proxies, or other intervening devices. The platform is proprietary and the RTOS is the same system that Cisco uses under their IOS on their large new routers, QNX. It's self-healing, real-time updatable, failsafe. It's a cool Real Time Operating System if anyone is interested in a very fast, super reliable embedded system. http://www.qnx.com/ I made a presentation in a major session at the last Muniwireless show on its use in an automatic delivery of geo-targeted EAS alerts and geo-customized content filtering in municipal type Wi-Fi environments like would be desired around school properties, etc. If that's not on the Muniwireless site, I can make it available to anyone that would find it interesting. I've been interested in wireless for years...a ham, W8BZB for over 50 years, sold my last company to Nortel about the time they started early Wi-Fi products and got very familiar with it about 10 years ago. We parted Nortel 4 or 5 years ago and started this company. The heart of the system is an elaborate and gigantic message switch that assures delivery of exactly the content (any HTML anywhere) to targeted recipients' screens constrained to a tight schedule and the specified frequency. For example, a weather alert won't go to a sub out of the area and won't go to a sub in the area if they start browsing after it's expired. And, if they've viewed it, they won't be bothered again. Subscribers are very, very sensitive to disruption of their browsing context and won't put up with anything that interferes with the smooth process of their activity at the time. It's taken a couple of years with millions of experimental deliveries to tune it so that there is no grumbling. Interestingly, at the last MAAWG conference, http://www.maawg.org, sponsored by AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, Ironport, etc., a discussion was very energetic on the subject of control of network abuse. "Just shut them down if they're abusing the network" was frequently heard. Then, several major MSOs popped up and started giving examples of horrible consequences after shutting down critical network access by putting the subscriber into a walled garden. For example, a subscriber had several PCs and a Vonage behind a gateway. The kid's PC was infected and engaged in a DNS attack. They turned off the DNS port in the modem...the Vonage lifeline and E911 went down and there were consequences. A polite communication (ahem) could have engaged the subscriber as a partner in remediation. WideOpenWest made a presentation at that last MAAWG conference as how they control abuse without suspending any potentially critical Internet service....using the yours truly product. I can find that presentation by Dave Walden of WideOpenWest if anyone is interested. . . . j o n a t h a n [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.perftech.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Butch Evans Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 12:46 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: RE: [WISPA] bits per mbps On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Jonathan Schmidt wrote: >been installed in very large cable operators. I'd be happy to talk >off-line. It does scale smoothly from 1K to millions of subs. There have been 2 people who've asked for some other detail on the list, and I'll add my name in the hat for that. With (now) 3 people asking for some detail, please provide a bit of detail onlist. It is (I assume) a server (proxy?) of sorts. What platform does the server run on? Does it require specialized hardware? What is required to get it running on the client end? Is it a special application, or is it a browser plugin type thing? -- Butch Evans Network Engineering and Security Consulting 573-276-2879 http://www.butchevans.com/ Mikrotik Certified Consultant (http://www.mikrotik.com/consultants.html) -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
