http://www.sail-project.eu/sailorsinn/2011/03/sail-review-ongoing/ A blog from the SAIL project Sun, 04 Sep 2011 01:57:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.sail-project.eu/sailorsinn/2011/03/sail-review-ongoing/#comment-436 Benoit Tremblay Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:29:52 +0000 http://www.sail-project.eu/sailorsinn/?p=489#comment-436 We envision that we are entering an era in the development of networks and networking where connectivity, regardless of in what form and from what underlying network you get it, is being taken for granted. Connectivity will be like air - you will have it everywhere and it will be essential for life. The "community networks" will play a vital role here in the sense that they potentially could be one of the real providers of true hot-spot connectivity. Our mission in SAIL is to develop techniques for securing that community networks, wireless networks and any kind of "other access" you could envision can play a part in this scenario as one of many access techniques. We are developing connectivity services on top of the many available access techniques available now or in the future. We expect those services to use the connectivity available in the best way possible rather than imposing specific structure on existing networks. This does not prevent the community networks to find the best architecture to suit the needs of their users. We envision that we are entering an era in the development of networks and networking where connectivity, regardless of in what form and from what underlying network you get it, is being taken for granted. Connectivity will be like air – you will have it everywhere and it will be essential for life.
The “community networks” will play a vital role here in the sense that they potentially could be one of the real providers of true hot-spot connectivity. Our mission in SAIL is to develop techniques for securing that community networks, wireless networks and any kind of “other access” you could envision can play a part in this scenario as one of many access techniques. We are developing connectivity services on top of the many available access techniques available now or in the future. We expect those services to use the connectivity available in the best way possible rather than imposing specific structure on existing networks. This does not prevent the community networks to find the best architecture to suit the needs of their users.

]]> http://www.sail-project.eu/sailorsinn/2011/03/sail-review-ongoing/#comment-418 Thomas Sat, 26 Mar 2011 16:34:50 +0000 http://www.sail-project.eu/sailorsinn/?p=489#comment-418 What demands will Sail have on how the networks should be designed? We got all these hundreds of "community networks" in Sweden, without any real design control. Often designed in star structure, and without aim to be professionally operated and managed. How will this type of design inflict on the SAIL progress? Or maybe the ring structure in LAN an WAN networks including Next Generation Networks design are not so important no more? What demands will Sail have on how the networks should be designed? We got all these hundreds of “community networks” in Sweden, without any real design control. Often designed in star structure, and without aim to be professionally operated and managed. How will this type of design inflict on the SAIL progress? Or maybe the ring structure in LAN an WAN networks including Next Generation Networks design are not so important no more?

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