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

[Charles N Wyble]

Yes. Free Space Optics is hugely important. 

The Free Network Foundation will be incorporating this technology into FreedomTower.

We will be working on getting a 100mbps/1000 meter version (which is inverse of the koruza system). 

I've put an inquiry into the list, and hope to produce some units stateside at the local hackerspace.

Dan Staples <danstaples at opentechinstitute.org> 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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