[OpenWireless Tech] "Open-mesh"

[Seamus Tuohy]

In response to the scaling statement that I keep seeing on this list.

There is a large international community of municipal mesh networks that
span into the hundreds and thousands of nodes. I mentioned a list of
them in my last e-m ail about mesh networks, and I would be happy to put
together a list of links to their sites if people need to see it to
believe it.

You can scale mesh networks to this size. Randomly placed ad-hoc devices
will not get you there, but with planning and support from a community
it is very possible.

Seamus


On 11/07/2012 12:09 PM, Eugene Smiley wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Christian Huldt <christian at solvare.se
> <mailto:christian at solvare.se>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Well, I don't think are ready to try to cover any large part of
>     anything with pure mesh, 
> 
> 
> But if the issue doesn't get brought up early it will come back to haunt
> us in the future. It's something that needs to be considered from the
> beginning.
> 
> I like the idea of the Open-Mesh products, but I feel they are
> overpriced for the value provided. I also think that they might not fit
> into the OpenWireless campaign since we are talking about reusing
> existing routerAPs not replacing them. It could be possible to take some
> design cues from the functionality of the OM[1|2]P devices, but
> currently OM/Batman-ng/Ro.B.In <http://Ro.B.In> are currently being run
> on limited selections of hardware. Example: I'd have to do serious
> software hacking to run mesh software on a WRT54G. This is within my
> skills given enough time and patience, but the average AP owner, no way.