World's First Mobile Router Links 3G/4G Cellular, Municipal Wi-Fi Top Global Mobile Router can simultaneously link 3G/4G Cellular and Municipal Wi-Fi networks with 802.11n OFDM MIMO technology. It offers Carrier-grade performance and scalability for ubiquitous access over both public and private wide area wireless networks including CDMA 1x, EVDO, EVDO Rev.A, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, MESH, WiMax, and Mobile WiMax. Its mobility tunneling technology offers unprecedented level of network security and seamless roaming capabilities across heterogeneous wireless networks. Top Global announced today the world's first Mobile Router that can simultaneously link 3G/4G and Municipal Wi-Fi networks to provide seamless roaming and secure connectivity to multiple devices, such as VoWiFi phone, WiFi IP Camera, PDA, and computers. Municipal Wi-Fi networks are making headway with more than 300 communities nationwide plan to have wireless ventures in this year according to a recent Time Magazine article. Given the unprecedented Municipal broadband wireless opportunities, Top Global's technologies can support seamless roaming (both inter-network and intra-network) among leading 3G/4G cellular and Municipal Wi-Fi networks. Top Global's mobile router delivers true mobile broadband to users with continuous access to applications and content including voice, data, and multi-media throughout an extended coverage area that can encompass multiple networks. For example, when the Mobile Router is installed in moving vehicle, it will maintain connectivity to one or more wireless WAN networks and seamlessly roams through the networks whether you are in Wi-Fi, Cellular, or WiMax coverage area, passengers can maintain free Skype call using off the shelf Skype phone, voice call using a low cost VoWiFi Phone, and access email, download files, play on-line games, stream audio/video in real time continuously with high QoS. Top Global mobile router has multiple radios that support 802.11n with MIMO technology for longer range and higher throughput wide area connectivity to Municipal WiFi infrastructure and 802.11a/b/g for local area network connectivity. It supports Municipal WiFi MESH as well as WiMax networks. The 3G/4G network support including, EVDO, EVDO Rev.A, UMTS, HSDPA, and Mobile WiMax. The mobile router features advance networking capabilities including: RIP, OSPF, QoS, Mobile IP, DMZ, DDNS, DNS Relay, PPPoE, VLAN, Bridge, NAPT, DHCP, link integrity, link control, dial-on-demand, auto-failover, and load balancing. Its advance firewall and security features including: SPI, Anti-attach, URL filter, IPSec VPN end point and tunnel through, SSL, SSH, WEP, 802.1x, and WPA. Management features including: WebGUI, Setup Wizard, Traffice/Event Syslog, SNMP v.1,2,3, Telnet, CLI, and Remote Central Management (RCM). http://www.wirelessiq.com/content/newsfeed/9438.html
Wow! Very impressive! The one scary thing though is going to be the troubleshooting -- even for today's 802.11b/g routers it can be frustrating, with the amount of technologies going through this thing it'll be a whole new level.
Wirelessly posted (Walkguru's: MOT-RAZRV3xx/96.71.95R BER2.2 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; 11063081) Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 Opera 8.00 [en] UP.Link/6.3.0.0.0) sounds pretty meat to me.
It sounds like a great invention, but there has to be problems associated with it...There would have to be some sort of "soft handoff" going between technologies I would think or you would be losing connectivity in areas where all technologies are present in abundance. But this is the way things are going.
Well... the technology to link 3G/4G may be there, but from experience I can tell you that the municipal Wi-Fi technology has a ways to go. I have Earthlink Feather Wi-Fi in Anaheim and, despite the fact that there is a WAP fifty feet from my house, my max download speed on any computer has come out at 131Kbps down. It sounds good... connect from anywhere in Anaheim... but it's not there yet.
Two comments: 1) 131 Kbps is better than 0, right? 2) This isn't spectacular...there are many technology gateways out there..this isn't the first. Check out Infralynx and Coco Communications for starters...different technologies being bridges, but at the end of the day it is done via gateways from one technology to another. Nothing earth shattering, IMO.
To be honest, I'm not sure that 131Kbps (which was the high -- average was around 40Kbps) is better than none at all -- with the high incident of packet loss, corrupt information is worse than no information.