[73556] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT: Novel uses for old hardware?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Sat Aug 28 21:37:26 2004
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 07:06:51 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Cc: John Ferriby <john@ferriby.com>, NANOG <NANOG@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <21D0CC57-F944-11D8-8291-000D93B24C7A@isc.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Joe Abley wrote:
> Your six-year-old antiques might be perfectly fine production gear for
> operators in other parts of the world. I would be trying to find a way
> to ship them cheaply to South Asia or Africa (or finding some other
> organisation that already works in those regions who would know how to
> distribute it).
Like for example the man who presented at the recent SANOG about a
wireless network for yak farmers and villagers in remote parts of Nepal.
He's got that entire wireless network running off solar antennas and
connected over a single dialup - providing services (bbs, email) to a
few hundred users, all of them yak herders, farmers etc.
http://since1968.com/article/50/nepal-wireless
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3744075.stm
He could sure use any gear at all that NANOGers have to spare .. and
could also use donations of (say) satellite connectivity if someone can
spare a VSAT link to replace the dialup that he's currently using to
serve these guys out of.
suresh
