Key community WiFi concepts, explained for ISPs, municipalities and businesses.
What community WiFi is, how a network of homespots and hotspots works, what users, ISPs and municipalities gain, and why it doesn’t affect the home connection.
What a Wireless Access Gateway is, what it does in a carrier WiFi network (tunnels, AAA, captive portal, CGNAT) and when an ISP needs one.
An ISP’s routers and links have capacity that goes unused. Models to turn it into revenue with community WiFi, and what to consider before launching.
Definitions of community WiFi and carrier network terms: WAG, RADIUS, CGNAT, VLAN, SoftGRE, Hotspot 2.0, TR-069 and more.
How Streetwifi separates the public network from the home network, why it asks for the real MAC address, what data is stored, who holds it and how regulations are met.