Carrier Wi-Fi Services
NGH User Provisioning Standardization & Trial
PROJECT LEADERS
Sundeep Goswami & Toufic Kourbeh
Josh Redmore
Chris Spencer
Charlie Allgrove
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Project information
NGH Provisioning effort focus on Wi-Fi adoption and growth addressing the need the need for an industry standardized approach to: discover a NGH network and related services, associate automatically and securely, be provisioned with network access credentials with minimal user interaction, and use the service without delay. Such a flow would also reduce the friction to NGH adoption and simplify deployments by eliminating the need to use a separate on-boarding network like an open network.
Outcomes / Target Audience
Global operators Wi-Fi users will be able to discover a NGH network and related services, associate automatically and securely, complete provisioning with network access credentials and use the service inline with the secure network they want to use. The ecosystem is expected to adopt the new set of features going forward.
Keywords
Inline Provisioning, Unauth EAP, Onboarding, Online Sign-up, Captive Portal, Trial
Business objectives
- Improve customer experience on NGH networks by eliminating barriers (devices and infrastructure)
- Give more confidence to service providers to invest in NGH and device vendors to develop support NGH
MAIN AREAS COVERED
- Benchmark of current NGH networks
- Gap analysis of current NGH state
- Provisioning standardization use cases
- General requirements (User Equipment, Access Point, Controller/WAG, AAA, NGH Roaming Database)
- Global test plan document
- Development of world first supplicant(s)
- Test bed scope and proof of concept
- Certificates and policies to enable such ecosystem
WBA RELATED WORK
Available for download from the Resource Centre
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