On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Tyler Durden wrote:
> "Photons are bosons, so they don't interact with each other.
Generally, don't forget 'entanglement' which is clearly interacting with
each other ;)
> Well, by interfere I meant in the detectors of course. So are you telling me
> that two WiFi receivers pointed in different directions will not receive the
> same information? I don't think WiFi (IR) is all that directional is it? If
> it is, then maybe we CAN have a new LAN segment.
It all depends on the antenna. If you use a Pringle Can kludge they are
quite directional. There is at least a couple of the Austin Wireless group
who have worked with other groups to build a phased array assembly that
allows 801.11b to reach several miles instead of several hundred feet. It
claims to be able to handle multiple connections. Haven't had a chance to
look at it and see if it really works as advertised.
Several of Hangar 18 are currently working on 'Open Air Optical Network'
serial adapters that will work with Linux, Plan 9, Winblows, etc. Just
about anything that will do SLIP or PPP over a serial port and has line
of sight for he lasers.
Our next project along these lines is to start using 900MHz radios to
increase the 'backbone' range. The idea here is to expand the current
'regular Internet' backbone for open-forge.org (two sites seperated by
about six miles using ISDN, with one site using a T1 to access the regular
network). When we get this up we should have about six to eight major
'backbone' sites scattered around Austin using 900MHz to connect to the
T1.
Our current backbone project is created by several commercial entitites
and individuals using non-consumer AUP's (for 'free', we use Tit-for-Tat,
we only interact with other 'producers' not 'consumers' - the idea is to
promote others to handle the fan-out to a larger user community). We've
got nodes in several states. We're currently looking at setting up the
auth servers so that we can better manage resources and access. We've got
somewhere in the neighborhood of about 40 machines in the pool. We'll be
using not only the traditional DNS but also custom namespaces (accessed
through VPN Gateways). We're also building a pool of 'community
accessible' process servers (ala Plan 9).
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