[Commotion-dev] Uplinks

[Sascha Meinrath]

FYI, both Steve Song and Elektra (two of the key folks behind the Mesh Potato)
are old friends, so if we want to integrate their work, we may want to bring
them on board.

--Sascha

On 02/01/2011 07:36 PM, Stephane wrote:
> 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
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