I have been working on a similar project and I am finding it very hard to get the mobile operators to understand why we want as little latency as possible and they are not very open to people peering with their "wireless" backbone. I hope this will change with more and more eyeballs going wireless. -----Original Message----- From: Holmes,David A [mailto:dholmes@mwdh2o.com] Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 9:42 PM To: Seth Mattinen; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Mobile Operator Connectivity Some large telcos with wireless and wireline operations in the US maintain 2 separate backbones: one that I call "wired", that corresponds to traditional wired access where commerce servers are usually located; and one that I call a "wireless" backbone, where GSM/CDMA wireless devices are used to aggregate access-layer traffic. Both backbones consist of national fiber-optic, BGP-based networks. Surprisingly, some large telcos have a presence of both wireline and wireless backbones in the same colos, but the 2 backbone networks are interconnected, not in that colo, but at a single geographic location (with perhaps a single hot standby interconnection site), located, for example in northern Virginia. So, the worst case is that if the servers and GSM/CDMA devices are located in Southern California, even though the telco has a wireline and wireless presence in the local LA colo, GSM/CDMA access-layer traffic must traverse the continental US to northern Virginia and back to get to the server. -----Original Message----- From: Seth Mattinen [mailto:sethm@rollernet.us] Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 1:14 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Mobile Operator Connectivity On 9/25/2010 13:37, Leo Woltz wrote:
I am looking for some guidance from the list. We will soon be deploying wireless payment devices (CDMA/GSM). We are looking at options on where to locate the servers that will run the backend payment gateways; we would like the least amount of latency between the servers and the wireless networks as possible. The wireless networks we will be deploying the devices on are:
Sprint PCS
For Sprint you can get a circuit to AS1239 and just take customer routes. Their PCS network is AS10507, but as far as I know the closest you can get to it is 1239. ~Seth