Alex Pankratov wrote:
This made it to digg's front page recently (sorry about long URL)-
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/business/yourmoney/04digi.html?ex=13282452
00&en=28e094940f7284cb&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Remarkably similar idea to Penumbra, albeit in a form of a startup.
<quote>
Meraki Networks, a 15-employee start-up in Mountain View, Calif.,
has been field-testing Wi-Fi boxes that offer the prospect of providing
an extremely inexpensive solution to the "last 10 yards" problem. It
does so with a radical inversion: rather than starting from outside
the house and trying to send signals in, Meraki starts from the inside
and sends signals out, to the neighbors.
Hi Alex -
Well it is similar in that it is predicated around Wifi and there is
some kind of mesh routing. But it is still about buying new equipment,
and about bringing Internet access: the things can't talk amongst
themselves outside of routing packets for a remote Internet connection.
The boxes also have no way to accept local storage, eg, no USB host
for a memory stick.
In contrast Penumbra's goal is to mainly work through existing machines
with no new hardware at all, and to generally not expose others' traffic
through anyone's Internet connection.
BTW we have support for bcm43xx too now, and have rationalized the
common code into a module of its own. No edits are needed to the
ieee80211 stack any more, just a driver patch and a new module.
(And we changed the magic MAC slightly to 13:22:33:44:55:66 because the
IEEE told us to!)
-Andy
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