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Project Overview
The goal of the Southern California WiFI project, is to design, build and deploy a community owned and operated wide area wireless network, utilizing both licensed and unlicensed spectrum.
It will serve any end user device which has a radio capable of communicating over 802.11 b/g/n. A number of back haul technologies such as fiber/xDSL/cable, 802.11y, and Infrared/Laser links will be used to provide inter node connectivity.
This network will be used to deliver both non profit and for profit services to consumers and businesses. Some examples of services which the network will be optimized for are:
1) Carrier grade Voice over IP including full end to end encryption.
2) IP Television (with both traditional and user generated content)
3) Business process outsorcing (such as payment processing and advertising)
4) Neighborhood portals and other consumer enabling technology.
We are not looking to provide internet access over this network. That can be done far better and cheaper by incumbent carriers.
The network itself will be non profit, but services carried over the network can be either for profit or non profit.
Project Resources
The SocalWiFI.net project team has obtained several resources in support of the project.
Books
B) Wireless Mesh Networks: Architectures and Protocols
D) An Insiders Look at the Rise and Fall of Competition in the Local Exchange Competion
E) Deploying License-Free Wireless Wide-Area Networks
F) Wireless Networks in the Developing World
G) Wireless Hacking Projects for WiFI Enthusiasts
Hardware
Please see our Network_Lab page for details on this.
Related Projects
There are many who have gone before us and inspired us to get this project up and running. Some regional ones:
2) Silicon Valley Wireless Users and Experimenters
3) Southern California Wireless User Group
Getting Involved
- SocalWIfi.net General Mailing List
- SocalWIfi.net VoIP Mailing List
- SocalWIfi.net IPTV Mailing List
- Project members
- Project Plan
Project Components
- Wireless Networking (things specific to wireless)
- Non Wireless Networking (things like BGP/OSPF/addressing schemes etc)
- Voice over IP
- IP Televison
- Geospatial Information Systems
- 3650 to 3700 mhz spectrum information
- Network Lab
- Mesh_Experiment
- Hardware Deployment
County Pages
- Los Angeles County
- Orange County
- Riverside County
- San Bernadino County
- Ventura County
- San Luis Obispo County
- San Diego
- Santa Barbara County
- Kern County
- Imperial County

