<html><head></head><body>Yes. Free Space Optics is hugely important. <br>
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The Free Network Foundation will be incorporating this technology into FreedomTower.<br>
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We will be working on getting a 100mbps/1000 meter version (which is inverse of the koruza system). <br>
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I've put an inquiry into the list, and hope to produce some units stateside at the local hackerspace.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Dan Staples <danstaples@opentechinstitute.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">High-throughput wireless networks using optical links, interesting stuff...<br /><br /><br />-------- Original Message --------<br />Subject: [liberationtech] Fwd: KORUZA for organic growth of wireless<br />optical networks<br />Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 02:34:06 -0700<br />From: Mitar <mmitar@gmail.com><br />Reply-To: liberationtech <liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu><br />To: liberationtech <liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu><br /><br />Hi!<br /><br />Forwarding. Musti does really great things and is searching for some<br />guidance about possible grants he could apply to to continue with<br />development.<br /><br /><br />Mitar<br /><br />---------- Forwarded message ----------<br />From: Musti <musti@wlan-si.net><br />Date: Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 2:27 AM<br />Subject: KORUZA for organic growth of wireless optical networks<br />To: "development@wlan-si.net" <development@wlan-si.net><br /><br /><br />Dear all,<br /><br />I am hap
py to
introduce the development of a wireless optical network<br />system KORUZA.<br /><br />KORUZA is an innovative open-source open-hardware wireless<br />communication system, employing a new low-cost approach to designing<br />free-space optical network systems, enabling building-to-building<br />connectivity with a highly collimated light beam at a capacity of 1<br />Gbps (1000 Mbps) at distances up to 100 m. It is designed to be<br />suitable for home as well as professional users, enabling organic<br />bottom-up growth of networks by eliminating the need for wired fiber<br />connections and associated high installation costs. The simplicity of<br />use, low-cost and compact size allow the system to be deployed in any<br />network.<br /><br />Feel free to see a more detailed description of the project with nice<br />diagrams at:<br /><a href="http://koruza.net">http://koruza.net</a><br /><br />As well as some details about the current state of the prototype system:<br /><a
href="http://koruza.net/Prototype">http://koruza.net/Prototype</a><br /><br />I have written a scientific paper on the topic: Reintroducing<br />Free-Space Optical Technology to Community Wireless Networks, which is<br />available on (unfortunately behind a paywall):<br /><a href="http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2013/ISUsage/RoundTablePresentations/3">http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2013/ISUsage/RoundTablePresentations/3</a>/<br /><br />The paper will hopefully be presented to wider audience on AMCIS2013<br />conference in Chicago this August, but am at the moment lacking<br />sufficient travel funding to attending it. You are most kindly invited<br />to forward the project to any organisation that would be able to<br />support me.<br /><br />KORUZA is under active development, but at the moment with my personal<br />resources in Slovenia. The next months are going to be dedicated to<br />evolve the prototype into a product suitable for the everyone to use<br />and I am looking for
ward to
presenting it in Berlin in October,<br />hopefully along with a crowd-funding campaign for the first series. A<br />lot of work, time and resources are required for the project to grow<br />up sufficiently to support itself. I am appealing to you for help in<br />obtaining a grant, by puting me in touch with suitable organisations<br />or individuals, that will enable the project to continue and meet the<br />above described goals.<br /><br />Kind regards,<br />Luka Mustafa - Musti<br />musti@wlan-si.net<br />wlan slovenija<br />--<br />Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by<br />emailing moderator at companys@stanford.edu or changing your settings at<br /><a href="https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech">https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech</a><br /><br /><br /><hr /><br />Commotion-discuss mailing list<br />Commotion-discuss@lists.chambana.net<br /><a
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