Vodafone and Verizon are again in the news. I’ve posted a recent story to our message boards, and written about them previously in the context of the upcoming American 700 MHz auctions. (Full disclosure: I used to work for AirTouch, which was acquired by Vodafone, and for Arun Sarin, now CEO of Vodafone.) The recent …
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Site home page is now dynamic
Overnight I implemented a script that dynamically generates the home page. The purpose of this change is to give better visibility to new information and reader contributions. Off to the side you can see sections showing recent entries into our message boards, recent reader comments to our blog , most popular forum topics. There’s much …
Google scores a victory for consumers
So today the American Federal Communications Commission decided to make the winner of the upcoming 700MHz spectrum auctions accept terminals and applications from 3rd-parties. This was at the suggestion of Google and others, and is excellent news for American consumers. It likely will lead to more handsets from which to choose and more innovative applications …
Starent 16000 PDSN MOP – Adding IP Pools
Purpose The purpose of this Method Of Procedure (MOP) is to add ranges of IP Addresses, called “pools”, to the Starent 16000 PDSN. An IP address from an IP pool is assigned to a subscriber by the PDSN when a data session is initiated. Procedure Begin this procedure by creating a backup of the PDSN …
Starent 16000 PDSN Troubleshooting
I’ve been working for a couple months now to create the software infrastructure for allocating wireless data network resources based upon the product purchased by the subscriber. This means granting them access to the purchased resources, and denying access to other resources. This is one of the functions of the PDSN, in cooperation with the …