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A Big Phoney Mesh The Problem Village Telco Mesh Potato Lets make a VT! Status Links Questions Slide 2 Demo What you need to know Default IP eth0 192.168.1.20 Change Wifi to 10.130.1.xxx You MP01's Phone Number is then xxx Slide 3 The Problem Slide 4 June 2008 Workshop Slide 5 Slide 6 Village Telco and Cell Phones Call Cost Community Approach Unlicensed Spectrum Infrastructure cost and availability Cell Phone networks don't scale down Capital (it's not just the handsets) Walled gardens versus the Internet Slide 7 Slide 8 Mesh Potato POT-ATA USD$60 Slide 9 Slide 10 Slide 11 Mesh Potato Design Low Cost B.A.T.M.A.N mesh routing < 400m between nodes, omni antennas Maximise open hardware and software OpenWRT FXS port & interface Low Power & Africanisation Slide 12 Challenges Atheros Support CPU Load FXS Port Integration Hardware and a Multi-national team RF, Wifi Calibration, Antenna 802.11 MAC overheads for small VOIP packets Ease of use Slide 13 Slide 14 Slide 15 Custom Wifi/VOIP Hardware Not a re-flash of existing hardware Custom, mass market product designed by an open community! Open Hardware (schematic, CPLD, uC firmware) Open Software Very hackable Development blog: villagetelco.org Many 1 st world applications Slide 16 Status It works! First phone call June 2009 Cool developer community Beta Release Jan 2010 (this week!) Production Q2 2010 Current Challenges: real world performance (tech and biz) system integration ease of use Slide 17 Links villagetelco.org Village Telco Google Group rowetel.com