On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Blair Davis <[email protected]> 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 2.4GHz 802.11b/g. I > use 2.4GHz, some b/g, some proprietary, some 900MHz proprietary, 5.8GHz > Netstream... The list goes on...
That is just another symptom of the problem. This group refuses to standardize on anything. Congrats when we all "innovate" ourselves into obscurity. Without standardization we will never have roaming or mobility. Are we really all still so small-minded as to think we can survive as little islands of innovators without integrating standards based roaming and mobility as part of the systems we all deploy going forward? What is your long term goal? To be a stop-gap until the future "Rural Broadband Act of 20XX" where the government finally runs a fiber to every place where there is a phone line and a power service? It will happen. > > mobile users go with a cell carrier and accept the high costs and low > speeds. Until 2011 when I predict the cellular carriers will be reporting more wireless broadband subs than the total WISP industry marketshare combined. Mobility and roaming are not just neat toys. They are THE market differentiators for wireless broadband and this group largely has their collective head in the sand. Patrick Leary got it for a while and then for some reason "un" learned the facts. I certainly hope I am wrong so you guys can all make me buy you a beer someday when I am then found to be mentally deficient. Something tells me this group simply chooses not to look at the future in a realistic way. I genuinely hope I am wrong. I guess the questions I have for this group is, "Why not accept that I may be right? What harm is there in attempting to build mobility and roaming into our networks around standards? Would this not simply add more value to our networks?" Scriv > > John Scrivner wrote: > > 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 than we are in recognizing the compelling > desire of everyone to have everything available to them everywhere > with mobility. Land lines are going away and wireless MOBILE phones > are increasing in quantity. WISPs may well lose out in the end if they > do not band together to form interoperability standards for mobile IP, > VoIP, roaming, etc. Last I checked there is not a single WISPA member > network out there which is fully mobile with integrated roaming with > another operator. Until WISPs do this they are doomed to a future of a > decreasing position in the future of broadband industry market share. > I predict that total customer counts served via traditional WISPs will > max within 18 months and then down turn if we do not address the > issues of roaming and mobility. If any of you have built a truly good > mobility roaming gateway solution which allows for WISPs to tie their > networks together and offer mobility then I welcome some feedback on > the subject. What about truly mobile and roaming capable voice > services over IP? Anyone out there ever build the equivalent of the > ASN gateway for our networks? I am ready to start negotiating > connection to this and right now we do not even have access to > anything to connect to. > Scriv > > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Scott Parsons <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This was very interesting: > > http://www.muniwireless.com/2009/02/03/muni-wifi-outperforms-cellular-and-wi > max/ > > Way to go WISPS! > > Scott > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! 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