BILATERAL ROAMING BETWEEN AGGREGATOR AND HOTSPOT OPERATOR

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BILATERAL ROAMING BETWEEN AGGREGATOR AND
HOTSPOT OPERATOR

• Cristina Álvarez Villanueva
• International Roaming Manager
• Product Manager
• AWA

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• Cristina Álvarez
• Degree
• Master degree in Telecommunications Engineering,
  specialized in Communications, Valencia
  Polytechnic University, Spain
• Ending PhD Business and Institutional
  Communication, Jaime I University, Spain
• Working in AWA
• Promoted from Technical Department as Engineer
  to
• International Roaming Manager
• Product Manager
• Contact Details
• Email crialvil_at_gmail.com calvarez_at_awacenter.com
• Cell (34) 661 89 22 96
• Office (34) 902 510 990

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• Roaming
• Users from different operators could use
• different networks with the same bill
• and under the same company

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• Wireless Internet Service Provider, Hotspot
  Operator, WiFi Carrier
• Business
• Rural Internet
• Supply Internet access to remote areas
• Supply VoIP to remote areas
• AWA Hotspot
• Big Hotspot Network in Spain, up to 12000
  hotspots in 2008
• Mega Hotspot big areas under a meshing coverage
• Trademark
• AWA NMS
• Brain of all AWA Platforms
• Roaming Interconnection Platform
• AWA RD
• Thinking in future
• Sound over IP, Video over IP, WiFi Car, WiFi
  Boat, Domotic, Surveillance over IP

• AWA_video.exe

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• Roaming
• Why roaming?

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Why Roaming?

• Wireless is more well-known everyday
• More hotspots to connect to
• More computers supporting wireless
• More WISP offering wireless services
• Wireless seems the perfect choice as Internet
  Connection Technology
• but

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Why Roaming?

• There is a problem
• global access
• Each WISP has his own proprietary
• Each user must take care about

• access method
• billing mode

• WISPs in the area
• login and password
• Different SSIDs

ROAMING
is the solution
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Why roaming?

• Any Operator aims to increase the number of
  hotspots
• But not always is viable
• Roaming is the alternative

Investment in infrastructure and maintenance
Big hotspot networks are needed to create a
global coverage and turning into the best
Internet Access Technology Roaming is the star
objective to reach for all the operators that are
interested in growing and giving more
availability of service to their users
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• Roaming
• Operators and Aggregators

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Operators Aggregators

• Type of Roaming Companies
• Hotspot Operator
• Hotspot Aggregator

A company, also known as carrier, that provides
access to its broadband wireless public services
to mobile visitors through a WLAN
A company that combines and offers for
distribution a number of ASP services or suite of
products, usually from a variety of partners
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Operators Aggregators

• Characteristics

• Operator
• hotspot network owner
• network control and maintenance
• investment to make the network grow
• Ex.

• Aggregator
• roaming agreements with operators to have more
  virtual hotspots (no owners)
• puts in common all users of different operators
  partners
• common bill and access methods
• Ex.

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• Roaming
• Roaming Agreements

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Roaming Definitions

• Type of Roaming Agreements
• Inbound
• Users of other Operators came to our network
• Profit
• Outbound
• Our user can connect to the networks of other
  Operators
• Added Value

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• Practical Situation
• Trustive and AWA bidirectional Roaming Agreement

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Trustive AWA Roaming Agreement

• Inbound Roaming Agreement

User Operator 1
User Operator 2
User Operator 3
Internet?
Trustive End-Users?
AKIWIFI Coverage Area
Yes
AWA gives access
Users have Internet services under their own
operator billing
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Trustive AWA Roaming Agreement

• Outbound Roaming Agreement

AWA User
Internet?
Trustive Hotspot?
Trustive Operator Partners Coverage Area
Yes
Trustive allows access
Internet services Hotspot Network Operator 1
Internet services Hotspot Network Operator 2
Internet services Hotspot Network Operator 3
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• Roaming
• Advanced Roaming Virtual Operator

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Advanced Roaming Virtual Operator

• Different SSID?
• Virtual Operator
• Partnerships as operators of the network
• Virtual SSID identical as the Operator one
• Customized home page and landing page
• Walled garden and free access URL for the
  Operator
• It is a marketing opportunity
• The user will feel the roaming network as at home

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• Conclusions

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Conclusions

• WiFi technology
• is a telecommunication system suitable for
  general public, that offers the bit rate and
  prices of broadband technology, the advanced
  services of Internet and the flexibility of
  cellular systems
• Roaming
• allows the expansion of hotspot networks by means
  of agreements with Operators and Aggregators,
  looking for a global coverage
• Aggregators
• make possible the homogeneity of the access and
  billing methods for each hotspot network Operator

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• Future trends

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Future trends

• WiFi will win the battle over cable as the mobile
  won over the fixed telephone
• Wireless will have global coverage and roaming
  will be the strategic factor
• We are under Marketing designs, so Virtual
  Operator may be the successful roaming type

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BILATERAL ROAMING BETWEEN AGGREGATOR AND
HOTSPOT OPERATOR

• Cristina Álvarez Villanueva
• International Roaming Manager
• Product Manager