Commotion Wireless is an
open-source wireless
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mesh network for electronic communication.
The project was developed by the
Open Technology Institute, and development included a $2 million grant from the
United States Department of State
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in 2011 for use as a
mobile ad hoc network (MANET), concomitant with the
Arab Spring.
It was preliminarily deployed in
Detroit
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in late 2012,
and launched generally in March 2013.
The project has been called an "Internet in a Suitcase".
Commotion 1.0, the first non-
beta
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release, was launched on December 30, 2013.
Commotion relies on several open source projects:
OLSR,
OpenWrt
OpenWrt (from ''open wireless router'') is an open-source project for embedded operating systems based on Linux kernel, Linux, primarily used on Embedded system, embedded devices to Router (computing), route network traffic. The main components ...
,
OpenBTS, and
Serval project.
Supported hardware
Ubiquiti:
* PicoStation M2, Release 1 & 1.1, DR2
* Bullet M2/M5, Release 1 & 1.1, DR2
* NanoStation M2/M5, Release 1 & 1.1, DR2
* Rocket M2/M5, Release 1 & 1.1, DR2
* UniFi AP, Release 1 & 1.1
* UniFi Outdoor, Release 1 & 1.1
TP-Link:
* TL-WDR3600, Release 1.1
* TL-WDR4300, Release 1.1
Mikrotik:
* RB411AH, Release 1.1
See also
*
List of router and firewall distributions
References
External links
*
Mesh networking
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