Mesh Networking Technology

From AleutiaWiki

The mesh network serves as the value-add of the enterprise. Use of existing Linux protocols enables multiple devices to connect to each other seamlessly, permitting the free sharing of files, of messages, and of email.

Store and Forward Email

This is a "killer app" for the Aleutia Home Computer and a primary focus of the company. Offline users can compose an email, send it, and have it "sucked up" by another device (ideally in a passing bus) which stores it, before seamlessly forwarding it on to the world wide web when it passes an Wireless Access Point (WAP). There are precedents for this in Cambodia and Rwanda, where a scheduled moped or van service was used to store, forward, and return electronic mail sent by villages, offering free connectivity.

The mesh is intelligent and can sense speed and relative direction of other devices. The on-board wireless chipset has two antennas at a fixed distance apart and in a fixed direction, and so through triangulation can determine the speed and direction of other devices.

Thus an email sent from one unit can be sent to another in a passing car, who has a better chance of delivering it than do the computers in the village. Delivery of data to the world wide web is performed automatically by passing any unsecured wireless router. All devices feature a partitioned locked area of flash memory to store messages before forwarding, making each device a carrier.