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Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 workshop idea 1.2 workshop logistics 1.3 workshop participants 2 Scenario 3 Proposals 3.1 organizational 3.2 financial 3.3 technical 3.4 local support

Introduction

workshop idea

The idea behind this session is to use the gathered knowledge at WTH to develop a strategy/plan to roll out and organize wireless infrastructure in a remote village without broadband internet connectivity. I will lay out the overall szenario and look forward to a lot of input from people who accomplished such a task before. This session shall cover technical as well as organizational aspects.

workshop logistics

• location: tbd in the Wireless Village during WTH
• time: 1500 day 4
• Tent 3

workshop participants

• ppl, who did this before
• technical experience
• organizational experience
• Wireless Metropolitan Network Service Providers
• everybody who would like to learn

Scenario

• remote village in the mountains
• no DSL in sight for years
• allready had discussions with a lot of locals that they would like to have Internet
• some small local business
• a small electronics manufacturing company, might have leased line
• mayor is kind of cool
• hotels might like to offer internet to guests as well
• next DSL location 6-8 km away, no line of sight (even worse, small curvy valley)
• in the village/ valley line of sight is no issue (its like a big bowl, range from 450m-1200m above sea level)

Proposals

organizational

• Verein
• freifunk.net Konzept
• kommerziell
  • http://itfm.de in wichte
  • service provider
• Tourismusverband

financial

• uplink costs
  • monthly bill?
  • goodwill concept like in Berlin

• infrastructure costs
  • who owns the infrastructure
    • everybody for his own
  • maintenance

technical

• OLSR?

• uplink

• network layout
  • backbone and distribution cloud

local support

• local IT company
• Antenna installation company
• city for billing, organizational hosting?