Of course the golden mile is important, especially if you can DIY and if
you can skip the backbone altogether ;-). Look for a DIY point to point
10MBps optical link from Czechia called metropolis. URL:

http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/ronja/

Peter

PS: I'd like to hear of places where students/techies/geeks formed
point-to-point networks like this, not unlike UUCP nets used to be. Know
any ?

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Brendan Moran wrote:

>The whole MAV thing combined with this, though it seems to be for
>applications like weather stations, makes me paranoid.  I fear for the w=
ell
>being of privacy.  They noted that 1Mbps is plenty for transferring
>real-time video with modest compression that can be done in hardware.
>
>It looks to me like James Bond's newest surveillance toy.
>
>Aside from that, tr=E8s cool.  Check out fsona for something similar, th=
ough a
>different applicaion and higher data rates.
>
>http://www.fsona.com/
>
>They're designing golden mile comm applications
>
>golden mile for those who don't know is the last mile distance between t=
he
>fibre-optic backbone of a network and the businesses wanting connections.
>Typically, this is the most expensive portion of the entire connection (=
if
>you have to rip up a street to put in your fibre connection, you know th=
at
>you'll be paying through the nose for it)
>
>Fsona's tech is based on laser comm similar but much more powerful than =
that
>depicted in the article listed by Peter (though as I said before, it is =
for
>a different purpose) and it provides quite reliable (can be interrupted =
by
>the occasional bird for a few ms) connections.
>
>I think it's a great idea.  Cheap installation (in $/Gbps terms).  Cheap
>maitainance compared to other techs of similar BW.  Looks good to me.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Peter L. Peres" <plp@ACTCOM.CO.IL>
>To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
>Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 12:43 PM
>Subject: [OT]: About smart dust and more
>
>
>> Another link I found today (must read):
>>
>> http://zapport.eecs.berkeley.edu/~salt./mfv/publications/salt_12feb00.=
pdf
>>
>> Notice the date.
>>
>> Peter
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