Fab WiFi = FabFi

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Fab WiFi FabFi
http//fabfi.fabfolk.com Keith Berkoben Amy
Sun Carl Scheffler Smari McCarthy
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The problem we are addressing

• Have fat pipe to one location only but want to
  share. Plenty of commercial solutions, expensive
  and not expandable without difficult
  sourcing/shipping/importing. (c band rigid dish
  took 6 months to clear customs). Unfriendly
  places like Af require lots of tech export forms.

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• Fabfi 1 summary jbad deploy jan 09

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Fabfi 1.0

• Long-range Wireless Backhaul
• Wireless links replace wired ground infrastructure

Conventional Wired Infrastructure
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Fabfi 1.0

• Long-range Wireless Backhaul
• Wireless links replace wired ground infrastructure

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Fabfi 2.0

• Long haul ? Mesh
• Increased reliability
• More flexibility
• More applications

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Real Time Network Map
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Open Mesh Network scaling

• Research Roadmap
• v1 Long-haul backbone (Jan 09)
• v2 Meshing and fault tolerance (Aug 09)
• v3 Fab Radio (sign up now!)
• v3.1 Fab Power
• v4 Local ? Regional ? Global scaling (vision)

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Open Mesh Network scaling

• 100 Fab
• Minimize supply chains/decrease cost
• fab router using IA4421 radio
• Deploy anywhere
• Interchangeable power harvesting devices
• Use locally sourced materials
• Anyone can fabfi
• Integrate hardware
• Simplify construction

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Open Mesh Network scaling

• Pan-local networks
• Scaling to regional and beyond without enterprise
  infrastructure
• The internet of fabfi

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Open Mesh Network scaling

• Build Local, Link Global
• Automate addressing and routing to support global
  scaling
• Build algorithms to manage traffic
• Tools for publishing and service discovery

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Orphanage makes one too
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Growth

• Soshanguve a success story in South Africa
• Community lab withstrong local
  socialconnections
• High usage and impact

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Growth

• Fabfi benefits drive network growth
• Soshanguve
• In dense distribution of schools with
  underutilized computer infrastructure
• Need to serve high-usage educational content
  locally at high bandwidth and provide cached www
• First fabfi link September 2009

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Impact
"In Afghanistan, we have very little learning,
both teachers and students must work outside of
school to get money, so it is difficult to focus
on our studies.

• In places like Bagrami, access to computers and
  the internet can be life-changing. Rashid is
  interested in medicine but has absolutely no
  access to any information on the subject. A
  simple google search for "health" had him excited
  in no time at all, and I was glad to watch the
  attending group devour a page on women's health
  (including sexual health) without even batting an
  eyelash.
• In contrast to his brother, Naqibullah was more
  interested in information about Afghanistan and
  Islam. The tension between traditional cultural
  values / religious beliefs and the desire for the
  opportunities of western society is palpable in
  these moments of discovery.

"Are there Muslims in America?"
"When you have a guest in your house would you
have tea together?