Thread: [Preprep-devel] Project Details and breakdown

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All,

First off I have opened the preprep-devel list to all comers. We can create
a separate project management list if need be. 

Second I am officially launching the Los Angeles WiFI project at SGVLUG this
Thursday. I will be proposing it as a large scale test bed for routing,
Voice over IP, Ipv6 and IPTV using open source software. I think this will
get a lot of people very excited (especially as anyone who actively
contributes/participates in the project will get free access to the
network). I will also touch on InfrasBox and how knowledge learned from the
WiFI project will feed back into the product development life cycle, and
create a vastly better Linux distribution for internet scale operations. 

I have been doing a lot of research into various areas, and updating the
Wiki, and have identified 2 major areas that are essential to project
success:

1) Voice over IP service. Mike Fedyk is the resident VoIP expert and is
gaining a massive amount of carrier grade knowledge at his current job. This
is excellent. Keep up the good work Mike. Also Ralf has a decent amount of
background with VoIP as well. See
http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/LAWIFI_VoIPStuff for more details. 

A number of technical people in the Los Angeles and Orange County area are
interested in VoIP. This gives them a perfect opportunity to build out a
large scale VoIP network and learn about QOS, billing, intelligent routing,
multiple peers etc. I think we will have plenty of help in the VoIP area :) 

I will be sending out a project announcement to the local asterisk users
group and putting a post on the voip-info wiki next Tuesday. I have also
created a preprep-voip list as I imagine that a lot of discussion will be
happening that is specific to VoIP and wireless in Los Angeles. 

2) IPTV service. Dallas Legan is our resident media expert and I have tasked
him with building out a prototype media server system using VideoLan. I
think that having an IPTV service setup that we can demo to investors is a
huge win. Especially if its optimized for mobile delivery (3g/4g/LT/WiFI).
Also Larry Hart is an excellent resource for testing all sorts of media
related services and is a very large media consumer. I am copying him on
this e-mail as he isn't subscribed to the preprep-devel list. I believe that
the media portion of the network needs some work and additional help, but it
shouldn't be too hard to generate interest. 

The above services will be supported by a geographically distributed, fully
fault tolerant back end infrastructure. More details on the Infrastructure
components can be found at:
http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/LAWIFI_Infrastructure 

I am taking on the task of building out the back end infrastructure. Phase 1
will include core services: DNS, RADIUS, DynDNS, and network health
monitoring, and a handful of access points. 

Phase 2 will involve meshing the access points. 

Phase 3 will involve Ipv6 tunnel brokers, BGP cloud, MPLS etc. 

I figure that enough technically inclined people exist in the Los Angeles
region who have a wide variety of skills in the various infrastructure areas
to help out quite a bit. 

So I am going to spend the rest of the day 

1) Fleshing out the project plan (see the current draft at
http://wiki.infrasbox.com/index.php/TechOps_MGOT ) 
2) Working on my presentation / project pitch for SGVLUG
3) Filling in more information on core network infrastructure. 

Once the project is launched this Thursday, I will be undertaking a
marketing/development blitz:

1) Promoting the WiFI project at LugRadio live in San Francisco this
weekend. 
2) Promoting the WiFI project at Interop in Las Vegas at the end of April as
well as gathering up information and contact info from various wireless
vendors.
3) Present on project progress and technical details at BarCamp SanDiego in
early May. 
4) Present on project status and some technical details at the IEEE chapter
in mid May.

So let's get this thing launched guys!!!! Make some mega money! 

Charles N Wyble ch...@th...
http://charlesnw.blogpsot.com
(818) 280-7059