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| The name sounds Japanese but you haven't to mistake: Netsukuku is an Italian innovative networking tool, recently presented at the WSIS meeting, held in Geneva the last 18th of May. This software is among the 375 initiatives included inside the WSIS Golden Book that, according to the ITU, can give a valid contribution to build an inclusive Information Society, where anyone, anywhere is a citizen (*). Netsukuku is based on the idea to exploit in a revolutionary way the great potentiality of the wi-fi technology, making the PCs able to interconnect to each other and to self manage a traffic of data comparable to the Internet one. The application works in a very simple way: the users put their own wi-fi device antennas on an accessible allocation, and, doing so, an uncountable number of PCs with Netsukuku software installed make possible a meshing process continuing endlessly and in a totally autonomous way, without finding any theoretical limit to the diffusion of this unique kind of global peer to peer network. In such a way, PCs at the opposite pole of the globe will be able to recognize each other, even when there is a lack of radio coverage, as long as the links can be build over the Internet, through an ingenious system of "virtual tunnels". Moreover, the Netsukuku software takes care to manage all web sites it needs by a self-sustained and distributed system, purposely conceived to avoid any external support. Netsukuku represents, in matter of fact, an important initiative in the field of Open Source, whose ambitious goal is to introduce a revolutionary use of the successful wi-fi technology, giving to everybody the chance to be a conscious builder/user of an enlarged, toll-free and distributed connectivity, based on the P2P philosophy. Is this alternative cyberspace, complementary to the Internet, ready to take off? It's up to the users to decide. |
The name can sound like Japanese but Netsukuku actually is an Italian Open Source networking tool, presented at the World Summit on the Information Society meeting, held in Geneva the last 18th of May. This software is among the 375 initiatives included inside the WSIS Golden Book that, according to the ITU, can give a valid contribution to bridge the digital divide(*). Netsukuku software is based on the very simple idea to enable PCs, through wi-fi or any other connection medium, to be linked each other and build by themselves an unique global mesh network, totally apart, complementary and even bigger than Internet, without the support of any Telecom Companies, ISPs or governance entities. The task to assign and resolve the domain names is equally distributed upon each PC, avoiding the use of any server, with a minimal requirement of memory and CPU resources. The users sharing their own spare bandwidth will provide free Internet connection for the whole community. Wi-fi technology represents the easiest way to join the Netsukuku network. The users setting up their own wi-fi antennas on a well exposed place (i.e. windows or roofs), link themselves to the other Netsukuku users, placed within their radio ranges. The number of interconnected PCs can grow endlessly and even if a PC is out of the range of other Netsukuku wi-fi signals, an Internet connection is sufficient to supply the missing "physical" link. |
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The Wi-Fi revolution in a P2P networking solution
The name can sound like Japanese but Netsukuku actually is an Italian Open Source networking tool, presented at the World Summit on the Information Society meeting, held in Geneva the last 18th of May. This software is among the 375 initiatives included inside the WSIS Golden Book that, according to the ITU, can give a valid contribution to bridge the digital divide(*). Netsukuku software is based on the very simple idea to enable PCs, through wi-fi or any other connection medium, to be linked each other and build by themselves an unique global mesh network, totally apart, complementary and even bigger than Internet, without the support of any Telecom Companies, ISPs or governance entities. The task to assign and resolve the domain names is equally distributed upon each PC, avoiding the use of any server, with a minimal requirement of memory and CPU resources. The users sharing their own spare bandwidth will provide free Internet connection for the whole community. Wi-fi technology represents the easiest way to join the Netsukuku network. The users setting up their own wi-fi antennas on a well exposed place (i.e. windows or roofs), link themselves to the other Netsukuku users, placed within their radio ranges. The number of interconnected PCs can grow endlessly and even if a PC is out of the range of other Netsukuku wi-fi signals, an Internet connection is sufficient to supply the missing "physical" link. (*) http://www.itu.int/wsis/stocktaking/scripts/documents.asp?project=1143798547 For more information and download: http://netsukuku.freaknet.org