Interesting concept...
Cisco and all the other vendors are building and branding wireless
for seamless roaming, given carrier-grade wireless is provided
(ie. vendor selling the solution). Most cell hardware vendors
(cisco, alcatel, juniper, etc) also sell wireless solutions, so
why not blend the two for mobile roaming with carrier solution
backhaul and roaming capabilities?
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/service-provider/service-provider-wi-fi/white_paper_c11-701018.html
I was chatting with someone from cox, guess they're doing what
every other last-mile provider is, building wifi into their
next-gen modems to not only service local traffic (for customers),
but also reusing bandwidth for their own free wifi service. This
is the same thing Comcast is being sued for currently by the way.
If you think about it it, Cox, Comcast, all the MSO's driven by
vendor are pushing to use your connection for reselling, or giving
"value-add" service for "everyone", giving they're using your
last-mile connection for it too. Comcast is being sued because
someone realized they're resusing their connection they're paying
for, but is it wrong?
What they do is reuse "channels", yes, like old analog channels of
rf spectrum over their closed plant, for this, while giving you
otherwise what you pay for. With 42mb a channel x 24 or 32
channels of docsis 3.0+, whatever you're not paying for, they see
as free game. Since no one buys actual cable tv now, why not -
revenue!
Again, this is a net neutrality thing. Is it wrong to reuse
unused docsis upstream/downstream channels when you're not paying
for full-service anyways? If it's logically secure, who cares?
Does it impede on your service really?
Exactly what the cable MSO's are looking for, and Google trying to
piggy-back on them. Can't say I blame Google, this is Milo
Medin's revenge for them, as well as google fiber, for scuttling
@Home Networks. Death by a thousand cuts, if they let him in.
Interesting part is Cable is not regulated like the Baby Bell's
are, curious to see if they just try to push him, google, and
everyone else out. Cox is doing so for playing nice with other
cable companies, but I'll be curious to see if they let Google in
on the party.
-mb
On 05/07/2015 09:52 AM, Michael Havens wrote: