[Commotion-dev] Slides from recent presentation on the wifi deployment at this year's Burning Man

Alexander Chemeris alexander.chemeris at gmail.com
Fri May 10 14:44:23 UTC 2013


AFAIK, it's OpenBTS, as that's what David/RangeNetworks is developing.
Do you have different information?

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Ben West <ben at gowasabi.net> wrote:
> Likewise, below is information about the non-commercial 2G phone service
> also deployed at Burning Man.  Albeit not with OpenBTS.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David A. Burgess <dburgess at jcis.net>
> Date: Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:30 PM
> Subject: [bm-wifi] Papa Legba cellular network
> To: bm-wifi-list at burningman.com
>
>
> All -
>
> As discussed in the meeting this evening, the Papa Legba camp runs a 2G
> cellular network on the playa.
>
> Last year's network is described here
>
> http://papalegba2012.wikispaces.com/Results
>
> This year's camp wiki is here
>
> http://papalegba2013.wikispaces.com
>
> -- David
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Ben West <ben at gowasabi.net> wrote:
>>
>> For some background ...
>>
>> Burning Man has deployed wifi across the Playa for several years now.
>> Cultural objections about why they would do this have long since been set
>> aside.  Burning Man has wifi.
>> It has been repeatedly asked would they ever deploy a mesh (I asked on
>> their listserv a few years back myself), and the BM wifi working group
>> repeatedly says no they won't.
>>
>> Nevertheless, they are deploying lots of UBNT 5.8GHz gear, and the slides
>> PDF referenced below about Burning Man's temporary wireless infrastructure
>> are an interesting read.
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Chris -Taz- Petrell <taz at burningman.com>
>> Date: Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:50 PM
>> Subject: [brc-wifi] slides - 2013
>> To: brc-wifi-list at burningman.com
>>
>>
>> http://matt.peterson.org/tmp/BurningMan2013WiFiSummit.pdf
>>
>> C.
>>
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>>
>> --
>> Ben West
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