Community Networking Links

• Community Fiber
  • Community Network Infrastructure: Community Fiber in Palo Alto (by Brian Reid)
  • A good overall presentation, but lacks all the technical detail
  www.canarie.ca/advnet/workshop_2000/presentations/reid.ppt
• Getting your neighbors to work together; a 100Mb/s fiber network
  • This is in fact a bit too expensive (~$200/house); we do not need fiber to every house.
  http://www.acc.umu.se/~tfytbk/mattgrand/ HiP_Hop
• City-wide fiber-optic backbone in Ashland, Oregon, USA
  http://www.ashlandfiber.net/index.html
• Regional networks in Finland: (in Finnish)
  http://194.89.205.3/juhta/julkaisut/seut2001.pdf

City-wide switching

• Municipal area network (MAN)
  http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/cn/local.html
• Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
  This is something similar, but without the physical dimensions.
  A community DMZ in practice, NorrNod in Umeå (in Swedish)
  http://www.norrnod.se/norrnod/presentation/index.html
• Information Main Street
  http://www.canarie.ca/advnet/workshop_99/agenda.html
• A LAN Party
  Everybody pulling their cables together to play interactive computer games.
  http://www.lanparty.com/

WLAN

• Community Wireless links
  http://www.nyx.net/~smanley/wireless/
• More WLAN links: Wireless Anarchy
  http://www.wirelessanarchy.com/ HiP_Hop

• WLAN in Estonia
  http://www.WiFi.ee/