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November 5, 2003

Vertical Handoff Has Liftoff

By Glenn Fleishman

Industry and academia demonstrate connection handoff across wireless LAN, GPRS, wired LAN on commercial networks: A press release (not included on this site) says that TeliaSonera, Ericsson, Radionet, and the Helsinki University of Technology have demonstrated a seamless handoff across commercial networks. The benefits they cite are absolutely the case: users want uninterrupted services and no monkeying around.

Interestingly, if you use NetMotion Wireless software, you can achieve most of this effect today. While you’re responsible as a user for changing your connectivity, the NetMotion client and server software maintain the persistent state of the Internet connection.

Posted by Glennf at November 5, 2003 9:22 AM

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