[wsfii-discuss] Interesting / Who are they?

Tue Aug 8 12:51:23 UTC 2006

Hi,

Sanjit Biswas, Network Administrator, MIT Roofnet + Co-Founder, Meraki Networks
spoke recently at the MuniWireless 2006 Silicon Valley. Sascha was the
moderator at that panel. He mentions the Meraki mini being open source
hardware created because Roofnet's previous favorite box (Netgear) is
discontinued. The software is definitely open-source because I just
downloaded it and it is source.
quote from Sanjit:
"How does it repeat? There is a single radio, the interface is 802.11,
it relays DHC traffic, switches back and forth between the two, acts
as both an access point and a mesh node simultaneously. Designed to
scale up to 30 to 100 nodes"

This describes the company history:
"Meraki Networks, a Mountain View, Calif.-based startup is building a
business off of hardware and software based on MIT's Roofnet project.
The Roofnet Project was previously funded by MIT's Project Oxygen and
NTT DoCoMo. Meraki also consults on mesh-networking related issues for
the fabled $100 laptop prototype project."

Something to watch out for is (IMO) their upcoming Radius (AAA)
service and how they are going to handle (or price) the last A of
accounting...

I will keep checking on this develpment,
Thanks, Fred

On 8/8/06, Marten Vijn <info at martenvijn.nl> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 11:24 +0200, Juergen Neumann wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Cven just posted a link to http://www.meraki.net/index.html on the
> > freifunk lists. Does anyone have a clue who they are? Other comments?
>
> Google ? => They need a mesg endpoint device for their project. This is
> good way to do beta testing and data mining on endusers.
>
> I see no repositories / lisence. Intereseting cheap hardware though. The
> way the page is setup in looks like a sevice model.
>
> Good to know is wether the firmware will be open or not. Clearly there
> is a business model, and it is not free scable for larger net works.
>
> I will see and try to buy one to see whats in there, and if it will run
> on good software (*BSD/GNU_Linux).
>
> just my 2ct
>
> kind regards,
> Marten
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> > Thx
> >
> > JuergeN
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