The WiFi Alliance is now certifying devices for VoIP by WiFi as part of a new standard 802.11r that’s coming to us in the future. While that is good, it’s too little too late. Earthlink tried to have VoWiFI with some devices that pals David Elgas and Steve Howe actually had built for them. While the handset worked great indoors, when I took the device out for field checking in Philadelphia and Anaheim the

service sucked wind, as moving from access point to access point that was powered by the Tropos Mesh networks floped to move amoung nodes very cleanly, nearly always dropping the calls.

This new standard is supposed to fix that, but as much as I see that as good for WiFi in the enterprise, I don’t see that working in the metro area for a expanded moment.

Original post by Andy Abramson