Not all equipment can do it, but at least Cisco APs can. At layer 2
using WDS, you can hand off from 1 AP to another while using VOIP and
not lose the connection-it's less than 50 ms. If you want to do layer 3,
it'll cost a bunch of money because the WLSM blade is $18,000 for the
Catalyst 6500. Cisco just released their Mesh stuff, and it is also
supposed to roam cleanly. We are anxiously awaitng our hardware to start
testing, but if it works as advertised, it will be quite sweet. The Mesh
units use 5.x GHz for backhaul and 2.4 GHz for access.
John
Matt Liotta wrote:
FYI, when I visited the FCC, they were very specific that Wi-Fi cannot
roam. Wi-Fi users can be nomadic in that as they move from AP to AP
the client is disconnected and then reconnected. True roaming involves
handoffs from node to node like on a cell network. Specifically, a
cell phone actually makes a new connection and initiates the handoff.
Wi-Fi clients are rather dumb and don't have this ability. The
difference is related to maintaining state on any network connections,
which is especially important for VoIP and VPN.
-Matt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, we don't use WIFI, it is strictly a fixed wireless network at
this point
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf
Of John Thomas
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 9:37 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] verizon fios pricing
Is your wireless network set up to allow roaming? You can't roam with
fiber....
John
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah but what about the new customer who is comparing FIOS to what I
offer?
FIOS
will have tv and voip ( we do voip now but no tv )
Times are a changing and verizon is putting flyers on everything
around
boston,
ma to promote FIOS, like pizza box's, dry cleaning slips etc
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf
Of Bob Moldashel
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 4:15 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] verizon fios pricing
It is reasons like this that I am a firm believer in contracts!
-B-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Although the service is not available yet in my area, it is
getting close
and
reports are it could be available in 2006 - check out this
pricing - the
15Mbps
for $49.95 a month seems like a really good deal and would be
tough to
beat,
currently I am using Nstream/MT which gives me about 20Mbps to
the customer
Up to 5 Mbps/2 Mbps $34.95 - $39.95
Up to 15 Mbps/2 Mbps $44.95 - $49.95
Up to 30 Mbps/5 Mbps $179.95 - $199.95
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