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To: elmatador who wrote (14761)	4/24/2006 2:30:39 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

El Mat, It would seem to me that the carriers' spectrum ownership constraints still represent a major hurdle to economically and independently deploying in-building wireless extension solutions for the ordinary homeowner, MxU landlord, and/or small commercial building owner. Non-PSTN alternatives to voice, i.e., Skype-like (there are others, too), perhaps even WiFi-supported Asterisk-based local access may be a way around this. In my own case I can Skype-out from any room in my home wirelessly through a WiFi enabled Skype phone, for example, attaching to the PSTN via Skype's gateways. But guess what. Many of the folks I communicate with are Skype subscribers, too. And WiFi-PSTN/Cellular convergence needn't be local to the residential building as so many enterprise solutions are attempting to do out of concerns for security and control, if the in-building wireless (WiFi) links were robust enough to support VoIP in the first place. All of this attention to cellular carrier grade voice may, in the end, be less warranted than we'd ordinarily make it out to be, as more and more traffic migrates to data and VoIP. What do you think? Asterisk, generic: en.wikipedia.org Asterisk Linksys WRT54G voip-info.org FAC

To: elmatador who wrote (14761)	4/24/2006 3:15:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

More on in-building wireless, in this case a look from the other side of the argument at "cellular", as found in the March 2006 issue of Business Communications Review: --- "Making The Case For In-Building Cellular" By Eric Krapf \| Wednesday, March 01, 2006 In this month’s issue, we have differing approaches to the question of voice over wireless LAN (VoWLAN). Michael Finneran writes about “What To Look For When Shopping For WLAN Voice”. The assumption is that you’ll be doing that shopping sooner rather than later. In contrast, Greg Collins of the Dell’Oro Group projects a longer timeline for widespread VoWLAN adoption. Both assume that VoWLAN is coming. But what if there’s another way to get wireless mobility in-building? Well, there is — you can use cellular. That’s the argument put forward by John Spindler, VP of marketing for LGC Wireless, which, not surprisingly, makes cellular equipment—specifically, gear aimed at on-site implementations. Spindler argues that cellular is more cost effective than VoWLAN, and that it has already addressed many of the issues that plague VoWLAN. Why Not VoWLAN? Continued at: bcr.com FAC