[Commotion-dev] Uplinks

[Dan Meredith]

Heya Stephane,

This is great information man.  Thanks for sharing.

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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