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* WISPiab in the context of Wireless Africa, Phase 2 | * WISPiab in the context of Wireless Africa, Phase 2 | ||
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Primarily, within South Africa, there is the Dabba project. | |||
The Dabba project focusses on the creation of a Village Telco (as in Voice Services Provider), while the WISPiab project puts focus on the general ISP operations, connectivity and ISP billing, creating infrastructure for a variety of services, with Voice being one of those. | The Dabba project focusses on the creation of a Village Telco (as in Voice Services Provider), while the WISPiab project puts focus on the general ISP operations, connectivity and ISP billing, creating infrastructure for a variety of services, with Voice being one of those. | ||
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Taking into account the difficult human resources and skills situation in South Africa, cooperation on both technological and organizational level makes sense. | Taking into account the difficult human resources and skills situation in South Africa, cooperation on both technological and organizational level makes sense. | ||
===Business models=== | ===Business models=== | ||
Revision as of 08:26, 21 May 2008
Proposed Work meeting of the WISP-in-a-box project
Date
June 2-3-4, 2008
Location
Meraka Institute
Pretoria
Invited
People and organisations with an active interest in building a concrete product that helps bringing
connectivity to underserviced, underprivileged and overcharged communities in Africa.
Invitation 20080409 sent to:
- Steve Song
- Rael Lissos
- Henry / Ndlovu
- Kobus Roux et al at Meraka
- Mark Summer, Inveneo (with request to forward to Ubiquiti)
- Elektra (if possible to have her in SA at the time)
Budgets for travel, if needed, still TBC!
More proposals are welcome!
Agenda
Technology: Review of technical requirements and specifications
- Review and finalize concrete low level Requirements / Specifications for WISPiab
- Test and compare implementations
- Linksys/BookPC base test system (Meraka, Sebastian)
- Revisit the Data/Voice topic
Organization: Synergy and Cooperation
Advisory Group
Direct cooperation
There are several projects with similar agendas and significant overlap on the the technical layer.
- Dabba
- CuWin
- WISPiab in the context of Wireless Africa, Phase 2
- IP04 (it46, rowetel)
- Inveneo platform
Primarily, within South Africa, there is the Dabba project.
The Dabba project focusses on the creation of a Village Telco (as in Voice Services Provider), while the WISPiab project puts focus on the general ISP operations, connectivity and ISP billing, creating infrastructure for a variety of services, with Voice being one of those.
The overlap on technical level is significant, in that both projects to a large extent draw on the same ingredients (e.g. OpenWRT and derived, CoovaAP, OpenSER on Software level, Linksys WRT54GL as current Hardware choice).
Taking into account the difficult human resources and skills situation in South Africa, cooperation on both technological and organizational level makes sense.
Business models
- Review and discussion of valid business models and their implications on technical requirements
- What needs to be implemented in order to accomodate the various models - see e.g.