Building a Mesh Network in Rural Somaliland

Re:Building a Mesh Network in Rural Somaliland by sitkack on Thursday January 02, 2014 @08:39PM (#7003706)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RONJA RONJA (Reasonable Optical Near Joint Access) is a free-space optical communication system originating in the Czech Republic. It transmits data wirelessly using beams of light. Ronja can be used to create a 10 Mbit/s full duplex Ethernet point-to-point link.

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Re:Building a Mesh Network in Rural Somaliland by gboudrias on Thursday January 02, 2014 @08:56PM (#7003750)

Mmm full duplex...

But yeah I helped on the Montreal meshnet and I think we either have or really want to have a RONJA link, because it's cool as hell as well as very useful in general.

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Re:Building a Mesh Network in Rural Somaliland by sitkack on Thursday January 02, 2014 @09:28PM (#7003828)

I know, I drool over the http://www.canon.com/bctv/canobeam/

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Re:Building a Mesh Network in Rural Somaliland by sOuqq on Thursday January 02, 2014 @11:08PM (#7004099)

From what I've heard, optical wireless links are super sensitive to environmental conditions (precipitation, pollution, etc), and don't work too well in real-world deployments. I would love to hear about more people's experiences with it, though.

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