30 | Tech bigwigs drive new global Wi-Fi roaming initiative (簡訳:Tech Bigwigが新しいグローバルWi-Fiローミングイニシアチブを推進) | ---- | |
FierceWireless: Wireless | 2020-06-06 06:30 | ????0? | |
The WBA announced last month that it was inviting organizations in the Wi-Fi ecosystem to join the WBA OpenRoaming program and become part of a globally available Wi-Fi federation that offers automatic and secure connection to millions of Wi-Fi networks. The idea is to create a world where Wi-Fi users move from one network to another without needing to constantly re-register or sign in.The WBA announced in March that it was taking over ownership and management of OpenRoaming from Cicso, which had been working on it for about two years. It’s built on the foundation of Passpoint, also known as Hotspot 2.0, which allows people to automatically and securely connect to Wi-Fi networks, acting more like a cellular network. Those signing onto support the WBA’s initiative include AT&T, Cisco, Comcast, Google, Samsung, American Tower, Boingo Wireless, Deutsche Telekom, Intel and more.“The Number One problem really was just getting people on the network in the first place,” he told FierceWireless. If holding onto the technology was viewed as a competitive advantage, “maybe you get a bigger piece of the pie, but you’re not actually solving the broad industry problem, which if you solve, you actually would grow the size of the pie.” In this case, more use cases across industries can be enabled with better Wi-Fi roaming.If Cisco didn’t plant it somewhere like WBA, the fear is a lot of different players would try to tackle the problem and the industry would end up with a bunch of siloed approaches. By the time that worked itself out, seven more years may have passed, and “we need to solve this problem now,” he said.Getting access to places during COVID-19 closures isn’t an issue because telecom is an essential business, but even if that were a problem, it’s not necessary because the kinds of changes they’re talking about doing can be done remotely, according to Boingo CTO Derek Peterson. The issue is more about getting the profile on devices, which means partnering with the likes of Apple, Google and Intel or those who control the loyalty programs at airports. -- ???????? | |||
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