[Commotion-discuss] Fwd: KORUZA for organic growth of wireless optical networks

[Grady Johnson]

We actually just did a phone interview with a technologist candidate who
used to work on this same technology with the US navy.

On 07/11/2013 10:07 AM, Dan Staples wrote:
> High-throughput wireless networks using optical links, interesting stuff...
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [liberationtech] Fwd: KORUZA for organic growth of wireless
> optical networks
> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 02:34:06 -0700
> From: Mitar <mmitar at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: liberationtech <liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu>
> To: liberationtech <liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu>
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Forwarding. Musti does really great things and is searching for some
> guidance about possible grants he could apply to to continue with
> development.
> 
> 
> Mitar
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Musti <musti at wlan-si.net>
> Date: Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 2:27 AM
> Subject: KORUZA for organic growth of wireless optical networks
> To: "development at wlan-si.net" <development at wlan-si.net>
> 
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I am happy to introduce the development of a wireless optical network
> system KORUZA.
> 
> KORUZA is an innovative open-source open-hardware wireless
> communication system, employing a new low-cost approach to designing
> free-space optical network systems, enabling building-to-building
> connectivity with a highly collimated light beam at a capacity of 1
> Gbps (1000 Mbps) at distances up to 100 m. It is designed to be
> suitable for home as well as professional users, enabling organic
> bottom-up growth of networks by eliminating the need for wired fiber
> connections and associated high installation costs. The simplicity of
> use, low-cost and compact size allow the system to be deployed in any
> network.
> 
> Feel free to see a more detailed description of the project with nice
> diagrams at:
> http://koruza.net
> 
> As well as some details about the current state of the prototype system:
> http://koruza.net/Prototype
> 
> I have written a scientific paper on the topic: Reintroducing
> Free-Space Optical Technology to Community Wireless Networks, which is
> available on (unfortunately behind a paywall):
> http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2013/ISUsage/RoundTablePresentations/3/
> 
> The paper will hopefully be presented to wider audience on AMCIS2013
> conference in Chicago this August, but am at the moment lacking
> sufficient travel funding to attending it. You are most kindly invited
> to forward the project to any organisation that would be able to
> support me.
> 
> KORUZA is under active development, but at the moment with my personal
> resources in Slovenia. The next months are going to be dedicated to
> evolve the prototype into a product suitable for the everyone to use
> and I am looking forward to presenting it in Berlin in October,
> hopefully along with a crowd-funding campaign for the first series. A
> lot of work, time and resources are required for the project to grow
> up sufficiently to support itself. I am appealing to you for help in
> obtaining a grant, by puting me in touch with suitable organisations
> or individuals, that will enable the project to continue and meet the
> above described goals.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Luka Mustafa - Musti
> musti at wlan-si.net
> wlan slovenija
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