[Commotion-dev] Uplinks

[Stephane]

Hi everyone,

Not sure where this would fit in the roadmap so I didn't attempt to 
update anything on the website.

Couple thoughts:


- There's mention of GSM and LPFM on the frontpage as backbone / links 
to the rest of the Internet. Since I've been working over the past few 
days on modem access (including "modem callback") it would be 
interesting to envision (landline) modem access as a third [...] option.

Refs on this topic (I haven't been involved directly with these folks, 
I'm working this as an FDN project):

http://cryptoanarchy.org/wiki/Dialup_For_Egypt
http://cryptoanarchy.org/wiki/SIP_Software_Modem

The post that started our thinking on that topic:

http://blog.fdn.fr/post/2011/01/28/Censure-de-l-internet-en-%C3%89gypte-%3A-une-humble-action-de-FDN


- I think I had mentioned villagetelco[1] to Dan & Peter. The folks at 
villagetelco have produced a nice piece of _open_ hardware[2] with WAN, 
LAN, FXS port, low power, rugged...

Note: To connect to a residential line for modem access an FXO port 
would be needed instead of an FXS port. But the changes for that 
shouldn't be extremely extensive.

[1] http://www.villagetelco.org/
[2] http://www.villagetelco.org/products/


- An uplink doesn't have to be IP -- UUCP or BBS-type connections might 
be better suited to "most of the time offline" uplinks. (I don't have 
much insight here, though.)


That's it for now.
Stéphane