Thanks. Now, on the Motorola 320, for example, the ASN gateway is not part of the picture, correct?
On 3/18/2010 1:59 PM, Rubens Kuhl wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Randy Cosby<dco...@infowest.com> wrote: > >> For us WiMAX neophytes, could you explain the ASN gateway and why it's >> on your list of things you don't want? >> > An ASN gateway sits between the Radio Access Network (where there are > only tunnels from the base station to the ASN GW) and the Core > Services Network, where the traffic seen is the user traffic. You can > see a better explation with diagrams in: > > http://www.tutorialspoint.com/wimax/wimax_network_model.htm > > ASN gateways are usually expensive, as are the BSC (Base Station > Controllers) that have a similar role in cellular networks. What Pure > Wave is doing is something that was once know as "Profile B" where the > base station could work without an ASN gateway. Navini gear before > Cisco also worked like this, which is very similar to what an Wi-Fi > Access-Point usually does. > > In larger networks ASN gateways are essential to scaling the network > and the ones I've tested were pretty good. I just don't want to pay > the price of them. > > > Rubens > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -- Randy Cosby Vice President InfoWest, Inc 435-674-0165 x 2010 http://www.infowest.com/ "Letting off steam always produces more heat than light." - Neal A. Maxwell -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
