Items tagged with Geeks Without Frontiers
The non-profit group Geeks Without Frontiers today released open source software based on an upcoming WiFi standard. It lets Linux machines be their own WiFi network, no hardware required. The software is based on the not-yet-ratified IEEE 802.11s, an extension to the 802.11 WiFi standard. 11s creates wireless "mesh" networks. Ratification is expected to happen by Q4 2011. 11s allows multiple wireless devices to connect with each other without having a hardware access point between them and to "multi-hop" to reach nodes that would otherwise be out of range. Geeks Without Frontiers is an arm of the not-for-profit agency, the Manna Energy Foundation. Manna's goal is a lofty one. It wants to "positively...
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