Commotion Wireless is an open-source

wireless Wireless communication (or just wireless, when the context allows) is the transfer of information between two or more points without the use of an electrical conductor, optical fiber or other continuous guided medium for the transfer. The most ...

mesh network for electronic communication. The project was developed by the

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, and development included a $2 million grant from the

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in 2011 for use as a

mobile ad hoc network A wireless ad hoc network (WANET) or mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a decentralized type of wireless network. The network is ad hoc because it does not rely on a pre-existing infrastructure, such as routers in wired networks or access points ...

(MANET), concomitant with the

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. It was preliminarily deployed in

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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 release, was launched on December 30, 2013. Commotion relies on several open source projects:

OLSR The Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR) is an IP routing protocol optimized for mobile ad hoc networks, which can also be used on other wireless ad hoc networks. OLSR is a proactive link-state routing protocol, which uses ''hello'' ...

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OpenBTS OpenBTS (Open Base Transceiver Station) is a software-based GSM access point, allowing standard GSM-compatible mobile phones to be used as SIP endpoints in Voice over IP (VoIP) networks. OpenBTS is open-source software developed and maintained by ...

, and

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Supported hardware

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: * 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 TP-Link Technologies Co., Ltd. (), is a global manufacturer of computer networking products based in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China. History TP-Link was founded in 1996 by two brothers, Zhao Jianjun ( ''Zhào Jiànjūn'') and Zhao Jiaxing ( ...

: * TL-WDR3600, Release 1.1 * TL-WDR4300, Release 1.1 Mikrotik: * RB411AH, Release 1.1

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* Mesh networking {{Technology-stub

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