Mesh networks are like generic WiFi networks, except that as you continue to add nodes — like the little Meshcubes, for instance — the network can expand out, without many of the limitations ...

[Jay Kickliter] writes in to tell us about his open source energy/power meter. With his buddy [Frank Lynam] they designed a small device that crams into existing power boxes and uses and 8 core pro… ...

FreeMesh is an open source mesh wireless networking system that provides an easy way to cover your home with a strong wireless signal based on the stable 802.11r and 802.11s wireless standards ...

The National Science Foundation has announced a grant to the Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network (CUCWN) for help in developing open source standards in wireless mesh.

Internet Service Providers (ISP)s will be able to deploy fully open-source Wi-Fi mesh networks, including standardized application programming interface (API)s enabling new services and features more ...

FreeMesh is designed to be an open source, relatively inexpensive alternative. For $150 you can pick up a FreeMesh WiFi router and 2 nodes that run an open source operating system based on OpenWRT.

The Mini-Router is available now, priced at $49 for one; or, if you want 20 of them, $799 (which works out to $39.95 each). Alternatively, since it's all based on an open-source project called ...

Networking multicloud-based enterprise workloads can be complicated and tedious, but there is an open-source software project underway that may change that. Called Network Service Mesh, the ...

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The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. This is a contributed post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ranga Rajagopalan is his ...