tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17500930.post114863742003841337..comments2024-03-20T22:57:03.923+00:00Comments on Dean Bubley's Disruptive Wireless: Quadplay, FMC and multiple gatewaysDean Bubleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05719150957239368264noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17500930.post-86524965496913098042007-08-30T19:16:00.000+01:002007-08-30T19:16:00.000+01:00What about sharing your wireless AP with your neig...What about sharing your wireless AP with your neighbors? When I log on I usually see a half dozen of my neighbor's wireless routers and have to fight the urge to use theirs rather than mine. What about a device that lets all of us share all, so that whenevr one bogs down, the system automatically switches to a faster service? Or better yet, when I am downloading a huge video file, it splits it up among all of our APs a la BitTorrent? Wouldn't that be great?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17500930.post-1149077523639673342006-05-31T13:12:00.000+01:002006-05-31T13:12:00.000+01:00There seems to be an opportunity for some routing ...There seems to be an opportunity for some routing device that can cope with multiple broadband connections. Rather than try to adapt what is there, use it as an alternate channel. <BR/>It would also allow the operators to route their VoIP traffic over a specific connection, but bit torrent type stuff over another.<BR/>Of course it means some kind of equipment subsidy, in all probability.Paul Jardinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14174519230653332835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17500930.post-1148655047953275402006-05-26T15:50:00.000+01:002006-05-26T15:50:00.000+01:00Completely agree. One of the big differences in h...Completely agree. One of the big differences in how cellular providers and MVNO's approach FMC, is where will WiFi access be allowed. MVNO's want WiFi access everywhere, in the home, at the office, at Starbucks etc... The name of the game is to offload as many cellular minutes over to WiFi to minimize expensive minutes. So multiple APs likely will not be an issue. For cellular operators, typical thoughts right now are to enable better in home coverage, and therefore only allow WiFi access in the home (for a consumer play, an enterprise play would be different). The goal being not to cannibalize the big expensive cellular RAN with low cost WiFi. The problem, is that to enforce this WiFi only in the home concept, cellular operators are likely to tie or bundle the phone with a specific access point and then utilize an authentication scheme with MAC addresses. This will then allow the dual-mode handset to only utilize WiFi when married to the one pre-authorized AP. So now going back to your original point, multiple gateways will wreak havoc with this model and cause a customer service nightmare. Never mind the billing nightmare of "I was in my kitchen, why did you charge me cellular minutes when I should have been on WiFi??"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com