-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all,
> From: John Valenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Alternative to Meraki mesh?? > Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:22:35 -0400 > To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> > X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) > > Anthony, > > The CUWIN project has their mesh software running on Meraki: > http://www.cuwin.net/pr/2006/meraki (but this is a year old and > I haven't heard much about it since...) > > CUWIN is the Champaign / Urbana Illinois community wireless group > (started at UIUC I think). CUWiN is indeed working on a Meraki port -- the initial port is finished, but we're still working on miniaturization. Meanwhile, I'm here in Austria meeting up with folks from FunkFeuer and FreiFunk -- who've been doing fantastic open source mesh wireless R&D work here in Europe for years (but that most folks don't know about back in the states). I've been pulling together a global alliance of open source mesh wireless groups to create the Open Source Wireless Coalition (see OSWC.net). Now that a number of FOSS technologies have matured, the goal of OSWC is to take best-of-breed components from each of these projects into a single turn-key solution. For the nay-sayers out there, these networks cover enormous regions (e.g., Djursland in Denmark, Guifi.net in Spain) and entire metro areas (e.g., Berlin, Leipzig, Vienna, Graz), have scalability to hundreds of nodes, are using completely free and open source software, and have been operational for years. My goal this year is to help transport these technologies stateside and get a critical mass of users together who want to deploy and develop them. > What's wrong with Meraki that you would trust some other company over > them? The only reason folks don't know more about them is that they don't have the PR and marketing money of the major corporations. Currently, there's a lot of anger in the open source community towards Meraki, because they took an open source project (Roofnet) and closed it in a proprietary system while, at the same time, not giving anything back to the community that helped develop the technologies. I think a lot of folks don't trust them because the good will and original goals of the founders appear to have been subsumed by the dictates of their venture capital funders. In solidarity, - --Sascha Meinrath Research Director, Wireless Future Program New America Foundation Founder & Executive Director CUWiN Foundation > -John > > > On October 25, at 10:24 AM October 25, Anthony Lemons wrote: > >> Anyone know if there is an equipment line along the lines of what >> Meraki is selling? I've been checking out Meraki and like the low >> cost, self install, mesh technology, etc. but I do not like that >> you will be depending on their backend (Dashboard) software. Are >> there any other companies offering products along this line? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHIf3Mr4ujbhper10RAuGBAJ9PaegZkIUiV5udShJpp/Ou50g1HwCePuRK joDbj36TJlYTeV3yTZ+TXyg= =B0dC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Join us at the WISPA Reception at 6:30 PM on October the 16th 2007 at ISPCON ** ** ISPCON Fall 2007 - October 16-18 - San Jose, CA www.ispcon.com ** ** THE INTERNET INDUSTRY EVENT ** ** FREE Exhibits and Events Pass available until August 31 ** ** Use Customer Code WSEMF7 when you register online at http://www.ispcon.com/register.php ** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
