Archive Mobile IP Provides Wireless Users with Continuous Connections By Sarah Beaver Mobile IP serves the needs of a growing body of wireless Internet and intranet users by allowing them to move seamlessly from one location to another while staying connected to their IP networks.
Wireless users can thus maximize mobility with no dropped sessions.
Also, Gartner estimates that cellular phone adoption is three to one over Internet subscriptions globally. Within enterprises, mobile IP allows wireless LAN users to move among different floors in a building or from building to building within a campus and remain connected to the network via a single IP address. Users of cellular WAN services can stay connected to the Internet and to their corporate intranets while traveling from one end of a city to another or even across the nation. Mobile IP is the only wireless solution that is media independent, allowing users to travel transparently between Ethernet and wireless connections. The home network tracks the user's current location via the Care Of Address and forwards packets that are routed to the user's home address.