[wsfii-discuss] SF Bay Area project Status / Stanford GROW-Net project

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Hi Ramon, Gregers,

When you say 'open network model' are you talking about no  
authentication or accounting? Or, the ability to freely register for  
access? One of the missions of the Coova.org project is to provide a  
free (RADIUS) AAA roaming platform to help bring together  
communities. More than that, it provides integration into other forms  
of authentication and community building; be it OpenID, and more  
recently, Facebook. The goal is to provide a free and open solution  
able to work with the widest range of applications - from WPA  
Enterprise to Captive Portal (of just about any kind) to a pure  
RADIUS interconnect.

I'm interested in knowing what your specific requirements/needs are.

David


On Dec 3, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Gregers Petersen wrote:

> Hi Ramon
>
> Ramon Roca wrote:
>> I've a colleague who has been in Stanford this week, and there he  
>> heard
>> about the GROW-Net project.
>> Looks like is about the SF initiative. I thought that it was over.
>>
>> In particular, I'm interested in know/encourage 3 layer deployments(
>> FTTH/wimax-backbones/wifi-mesh) using open network models. Don't  
>> know if
>> is this the case.
>>
>>
>
> I was in the same area during October - it's connected to the
> innitiative funded by Google, and parts of it is based on Meraki
> hardware/system - I think this GROW-Net project is also funded by  
> Google
> through their academic program.
> Google dicided to cover SF in wireless, and they are working on it,  
> but
> it is not really an 'open network model' (it's much more like the FON
> approach) ...
>
>
> -- 
> Gregers Petersen
> DIIRWB International-Coordinator
> international-coordinator at diirwb.net
> www.diirwb.net
>
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