WISPBONE II:
Peering, Wholesaling, Roaming & More...
March 15, 2006: 10:00 AM
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Peering is the arrangement of traffic exchange
between Internet Service Providers. Larger ISPs
with their own backbone networks agree to allow traffic
from other large ISPs in exchange for traffic on their
backbones. Essentially, this is how a number of
individual network owners have put the Internet
together. to do this, network operators have
worked out agreements that describe the terms and
conditions to which both are subject.
Wholesaling involves the resale and sharing of one's
facilities to virtual ISPs. Bi-lateral wholesale
agreement made between facilities-based Wireless Network
Operators allow for a cost-effective means of extending
one's coverage area and make for the possibility of
regional or nationwide "virtual" wireless broadband
networks.
Roaming is a general term used to refer to the
extension of a connectivity service (generally mobile)
in a location that is different from the home location
registered. Roaming occurs when a subscriber of
one wireless service provider uses the facilities of
another wireless service provider even though the
seconds provider has no direct pre-existing financial or
service agreement with this particular subscriber.
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