Wireless Mesh Networking 2.0

You knew this was coming, yeah I thought I would write something before the commercial wireless community started to pitch something that actually was nothing. You know what I mean, in open source community you see that many application started to use open source i.e. Video, VoIP, etc. Now you see that there are a lot of machine networks such as sensor networks etc., where wireless mesh is used to gather information in a geographically broad region. Now setting up what wireless Mesh Networking 2.0 should be like mash up and the initial Web 2.0.

The phrase Web 2.0 can refer to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, and wikis, — which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing between users. The term gained currency following the first O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but to changes in the ways software developers and end-users use webs. According to Tim O'Reilly, “Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform."

Web 2.0 not only became a buzz world it also create other 2.0 type such a Government 2.0 and wife 2.0 or husband 2.0 and maybe even children 2.0 a lot of different marketing fluff. Well Wireless Mesh Networking 2.0 should not be fluff but a framework to mash up wireless mesh to benefit Web 2.0 and Government 2.0 i.e. private sector vs. public sector.

So if Wireless Mesh Networking was client based i.e. mesh was used to deliver networking from and to the internet will Mesh 2.0 be server or machine based? Having information being collaborated and shared between Meshian’s? Ok so we’ve done that with wireless Mesh 1.0. Mesh 2.0 has to be bigger than that. Wireless Mesh does not need to be a simple municipal solution or broadband client solution, it needs to grow up first and compete with its wired counter parts i.e. Ethernet, fibre, etc. Wireless Mesh Networking 2.0 needs bandwidth, and once it competes with it wired brother then we can talk about 2.0 or the next generation or social networking or what ever.

No I think Open Source Wireless Mesh should blend in artificial intelligence (AI) components other components that truly make it a living network. Maybe Wireless Mesh 2.0 should be a “Living Network.” You know decision mechanisms that are based on artificial neural network capable of finding patterns, and learning traffic routing on the network. Ok so this ain’t a living breathing item but can you imagine that network giving recommendation of where and how to manipulate it self and position itself to move internet traffic? Naw.

Happy 2008