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Open Garden —Mobile overlay mesh network for Internet access
Grow your own Internet
Stanislav ShalunovSeptember 22, 2012Making More of MobileCambridge Computer Laboratory Workshop
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Open Garden
Small startup in San Francisco
Still very early—a lot of the vision not in the product
1.5 million installs, just to have a testbed
Evolving technology and product vision
Ship early and often development cycle
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Problem space
Every smartphone owner in the developed world has a portable device without cellular connectivity.
Connectivity is ubiquitous, yet elusive.
Multiple connection logic: if Wi-Fi, then turn off 3G/4G.
With the many connections, poor reliability.
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Internet everywhere
Basic networking technology
Make more Internet
On more devices
More of the time
Faster
Open Garden/MANET = BitTorrent/multicast
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Status
Shipping v1 with a few features
Working on a v2 with many more
Also have earlier market test apps
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Open Garden v1
Share connectivity between devices
Android, Mac, Windows
Use mobile connectivity on laptop or tablet
Users get connectivity where they didn’t have it
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Open Garden v1 tech
Install, done.
Everything happens automatically.
Bluetooth, Wi-Fi Direct.
Can connect via Bluetooth without discoverability or codes to type.
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Open Garden v1 vs tethering/personal hotspot
Android tethering takes seven screen gestures to start.
Open Garden takes zero.
Don’t need to remember to turn it off, either.
Less than 1% of smartphone users have access to tethering.
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Open Garden v2 (future)
Maintenance of the mesh.
Channel bonding.
Multi-hop.
More graceful failover: tune, not switch.