http://orcas.wikispot.org/About_the_NetRecent Changes of the page "About the Net" on Orcas Wiki .en-us http://orcas.wikispot.org/About_the_Net2008-08-28 07:27:45 <div id="content" class="wikipage content"> Differences for About the Net<p><strong></strong></p><table> <tr> <td> <span> Deletions are marked with - . </span> </td> <td> <span> Additions are marked with +. </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Line 15: </td> <td> Line 15: </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <span>-</span> Why? </td> <td> <span>+</span> <span>'''</span>Why?<span>'''</span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Line 24: </td> <td> Line 24: </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <span>-</span> * the CBN is a flexible community network, with several connections to the Internet, that allows any WiFi equipped device - iPhone, Mac, PC to safely and easily communicate. Priority is given to communications among Orcas Island residents, businesses, schools, emergency services and government organizations. </td> <td> <span>+ </span> * the CBN is a flexible community network, with several connections to the Internet, that allows any WiFi equipped device - iPhone, Mac, PC to safely and easily communicate. Priority is given to communications among Orcas Island residents, businesses, schools, emergency services and government organizations. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Line 27: </td> <td> Line 27: </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <span>-</span> * When the FCC allocated WiFi spectrum back to the public, the most exciting innovations and market forces developed creating products that are high performance, low cost and flexible. The network is made up of these components. </td> <td> <span>+ </span> * When the FCC allocated WiFi spectrum back to the public, the most exciting innovations and market forces developed creating products that are high performance, low cost and flexible. The network is made up of these components. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Line 34: </td> <td> Line 34: </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <span>-</span> * accelerate economic development and promote innovation by providing an open network environment<br> <span>-</span> * leverage digital inclusion programs by making high speed internet access available and affordable to all<br> <span>-</span> * enhance the area's ability to provide innovative services and lower its costs by building a robust wireless network, along with critical elements like the Wireless Innovation Center, the Neighborhood Advisory Council and a unique partnership with the San Juan County, energizes a wireless ecosystem which will help make Eastsound the most exciting hotbed of wireless innovation in the world. </td> <td> <span>+ </span> * accelerate economic development and promote innovation by providing an open network environment<br> <span>+ </span> * leverage digital inclusion programs by making high speed internet access available and affordable to all<br> <span>+ </span> * enhance the area's ability to provide innovative services and lower its costs by building a robust wireless network, along with critical elements like the Wireless Innovation Center, the Neighborhood Advisory Council and a unique partnership with the San Juan County, energizes a wireless ecosystem which will help make Eastsound the most exciting hotbed of wireless innovation in the world. </td> </tr> </table> </div> http://orcas.wikispot.org/About_the_Net2008-08-28 07:27:04 <div id="content" class="wikipage content"> Differences for About the Net<p><strong></strong></p><table> <tr> <td> <span> Deletions are marked with - . </span> </td> <td> <span> Additions are marked with +. </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Line 16: </td> <td> Line 16: </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <span>-</span> * because we can<br> <span>-</span> * people enjoy it who live here and visit here<br> <span>-</span> * to support innovation, creativity, artistry, socializing.<br> <span>-</span> * to help preserve and foster the long history the island and its residents have of caring, social innovation, creativity and love.<br> <span>-</span> * because its possible with todays technology and a grassroots effort, to build a network that's better than large telco 3G networks.<br> <span>-</span> * because it is easier to use, more open and free, subject only to the communities self-policing cooperative. </td> <td> <span>+ </span> * because we can<br> <span>+ </span> * people enjoy it who live here and visit here<br> <span>+ </span> * to support innovation, creativity, artistry, socializing.<br> <span>+ </span> * to help preserve and foster the long history the island and its residents have of caring, social innovation, creativity and love.<br> <span>+ </span> * because its possible with todays technology and a grassroots effort, to build a network that's better than large telco 3G networks.<br> <span>+ </span> * because it is easier to use, more open and free, subject only to the communities self-policing cooperative. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Line 37: </td> <td> Line 37: </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <span>- </span> </td> <td> </td> </tr> </table> </div> http://orcas.wikispot.org/About_the_Net2008-08-28 07:26:01 <div id="content" class="wikipage content"> Differences for About the Net<p><strong></strong></p><table> <tr> <td> <span> Deletions are marked with - . </span> </td> <td> <span> Additions are marked with +. </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Line 14: </td> <td> Line 14: </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <span>+ <br> + Why?<br> + * because we can<br> + * people enjoy it who live here and visit here<br> + * to support innovation, creativity, artistry, socializing.<br> + * to help preserve and foster the long history the island and its residents have of caring, social innovation, creativity and love.<br> + * because its possible with todays technology and a grassroots effort, to build a network that's better than large telco 3G networks.<br> + * because it is easier to use, more open and free, subject only to the communities self-policing cooperative.<br> + <br> + What can it do?<br> + * the CBN is a flexible community network, with several connections to the Internet, that allows any WiFi equipped device - iPhone, Mac, PC to safely and easily communicate. Priority is given to communications among Orcas Island residents, businesses, schools, emergency services and government organizations.<br> + <br> + How does it do that?<br> + * When the FCC allocated WiFi spectrum back to the public, the most exciting innovations and market forces developed creating products that are high performance, low cost and flexible. The network is made up of these components.<br> + <br> + Who's behind this?<br> + <br> + Orcas Community Internet is a private, non-profit group that came together over the last few years to create this little net. We like to develop, implement and operate a networks which provide affordable wireless internet access. Orcas Island is just a start. This is an exciting opportunity for Orcas residents, tech, business, investment and others, to take the lead in one of the most important developments in which people, companies and communities will become both more connected and less tethered, as new wireless technologies evolve.<br> + <br> + Why is this an important undertaking? Because Eastsound has the opportunity to address problems which until now have seemed intractable:<br> + * accelerate economic development and promote innovation by providing an open network environment<br> + * leverage digital inclusion programs by making high speed internet access available and affordable to all<br> + * enhance the area's ability to provide innovative services and lower its costs by building a robust wireless network, along with critical elements like the Wireless Innovation Center, the Neighborhood Advisory Council and a unique partnership with the San Juan County, energizes a wireless ecosystem which will help make Eastsound the most exciting hotbed of wireless innovation in the world.<br> + </span> </td> </tr> </table> </div> http://orcas.wikispot.org/About_the_Net2008-08-28 07:16:50 <div id="content" class="wikipage content"> Differences for About the Net<p><strong></strong></p><table> <tr> <td> <span> Deletions are marked with - . </span> </td> <td> <span> Additions are marked with +. </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> Line 1: </td> <td> Line 1: </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <span>+ The Orcas Community Internet is a network of networks. The Internet was originally designed that way. In the early days, colleges, research facilities, engineering companies created a network using TCP/IP locally. Then they connected to one another, so they could exchange email (SMTP), transfer data files (FTP), share common news (Usenet News) and much later, publish text (HTML/HTTP).<br> + <br> + These connections among networks, or network of networks became the [http://nethistory.dumbentia.com/cerf1.html first Internet]. In the late 1980s, this private, research oriented non-commercial network of networks gained so much popularity, many people and businesses wanted to connect up, and being non-commercial the just couldn't. In those days, the rules of the Internet precluded anyone outside the research, educational, or business directly serving network development, from connecting. After a few years of struggle, the commercialization of the Internet was accomplished.<br> + <br> + My personal involvement in the Internet came in 1984, when I worked for CCI in Rochester NY. We had a forward thinking network administrator that interconnected CCI's internal Email system (Office-Power) to the Internet. I discovered email in 1985, and later when I moved from Rochester to Texas, I setup an Unix system with email exchange to the Internet, since TTSI, where I worked, didn't have Internet Email. I registered 'comsys.com' in 1986, and passed it to Comsys, Inc in 1996.<br> + <br> + The Orcas Community Internet, connects several businesses and the Internet at large to one another using [http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/roofnet/doku.php Mesh technology ] developed at MIT. Simply, Mesh allows anyone and everyone who wants to inter-connect their local network to the larger network-of-networks (the 'internet') to do so. Internet-away!<br> + <br> + I've donated 20 low power WiFi mesh access points which serve to anchor the mesh network in East Sound and the Orcas Island Airport area. We're planning a bake sale to raise a little money to buy more nodes so everyone who wants one can connect up.<br> + <br> + At present, you need to be within a few hundred feet of an existing mesh node to place one effectively.<br> + <br> + The goal? Well, have fun, learn about what a network of networks can do. Share files, pictures, videos, recordings, (legally of course), setup an Orcas Island telephone PBX (SipX, or Asterisk perhaps), a movie/video repository, add one more way to keep things open, free, unencumbered, based in the desire to share experiences and enjoy the wonders of life.</span> </td> </tr> </table> </div>