Hi Julian and others, Let me know what you find out about distributing content to Africa. I work at a nonprofit that has been preparing some content so it will be good to know how this will be stored and deliverd.
Micheal, I have not heard of the one server per school effort. Who is involved in this. Thanks Evelyn Columbia School of Social Work Quoting MBurns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 2/6/07, Julian Somers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm researching a project to distribute content in Africa (rss feeds, > podcasts, streaming media) via satellite using cheap one-way > multicast dvb. So I have a couple of questions regarding networking > with the XO-1. I would keep an eye on the One Server Per School (for lack of a catchier term) sister project that is now being ramped up. Caching content is likely more important than effective bandwidth usage over the 'wire' to the Internet. Has anyone implemented the OLPC network stack (mesh, auto-discovery, > etc) on an embedded router that provides connectivity for the OLPCs? No. The Xbox360's wireless dongle apparently uses the same *hardware*, but the OLPC uses its own (802.11s) implementations of the routing protocol. Or is there some documentation I should look at that describes how > something like this should work? [1]? (I'd be interested in a URI for the draft proposal. I've been sent a local copy, but the networking@ list tends to have a need for a quick reference to it.) Is there an effort under way to design a low-power communication or > application server that interfaces well with OLPC? Haven't heard much recently, but there was talk of long range, point-to-point wireless using (I believe) the Green Wi-fi project[2]. Basically constructing rugged, cheap, stand-alone wireless access points. Hope some of this help. Sorry for the delayed reply. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11s [2] http://www.green-wifi.org/ -- Michael Burns * Security Student NET * Oregon State University _______________________________________________ Networking mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/networking
