Wireless Mesh in Bangalore..

As a fallout of barcamp(BCB5), I happened to get in touch with Rene, who first presented his idea of creating a wireless mesh in Bangalore. He has done this in Germany and it sounded an interesting proposition to replicate the success here. I am more interested in replicating this in rural areas in and around Bangalore, but before that I got to see it happening inside Blore.

There are several advantages of a wireless mesh network The devices which provide wireless service would themselves need lot of expensive wiring to network provides and Internet in addition to the setting up and maintenance of copper/fiber optic wiring.

Wireless mesh networks are cheap and easy to build. The single most distinguishing characteristic is the ability to self-manage (self configuring, self re-configuring, self tuning, self healing and self monitoring capabilities). Bandwidth is increased by simply expanding the mesh.

If you can build a cheap network, grow/share bandwidth, why then this has not yet become popular? One reason is that network operators and admins cannot trust a "self-everything" network.

Rene has been kind enough to create a wiki page , a Wireles mesh blore group (of which I am a member) and also kick start real wireless mesh build up exercise in Blore.... We are meeting up this weekend and I am excited to see it happening:-)))

Here is the full text white paper

Good night and good luck!!!