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

[Ben West]

Hi Alex,

Thanks for the clarification.  I had assumed incorrectly it was not
OpenBTS.  (Glad to read that it is!)

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Alexander Chemeris <
alexander.chemeris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >> http://gowasabi.net
> >> ben at gowasabi.net
> >> 314-246-9434
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Ben West
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> > ben at gowasabi.net
> > 314-246-9434
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> --
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> Alexander Chemeris.
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Ben West
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