OpenFlow is really the coolest thing to happen to internet infrastructure in a long time. Just look at this video from Stanford where they route a wireless video stream simultaneously over WiFi and WiMAX. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov1DZYINg3Y
This technology is really imperative if wireless networks want to cope with the increased traffic from all mobile devices. How cool will it be when, having a video call, your iPhone naturally switches from the cellular network to your home WiFi when you get home. Or event better splits the traffic over both networks.
How cool will it be when, having a video call, your iPhone naturally switches from the cellular network to your home WiFi when you get home.
It might be technically cool in the video, but my cellphone contract costs more than my broadband one and the connection is more stable too. I don't want to pay a phone company while they get to freeload on my ISP contract, and I don't want my phonecalls dropping out when my broadband does.
If you're paying AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint per GB, and you're getting 250GB/month from Comcast on your home connection, yeah, you're going to want your iPhone to intelligently switch to the "cheapest" connection available at the time of data usage (if roaming between connections is possible).
