Community Wireless Network

  A Community Wireless Network is an collection of smaller interconnected networks that span a geographical region such as a city or neighbourhood. The primary means of connectivity between ‘nodes’ in the network is via wireless LAN radio, these days better known as ‘WiFi’.

Whilst technically similar to the internet, a CWN operates independently of the internet and provides its own critical infrastructure services such as HTTP and DNS.

Through the use of specialised routing software, the network is made resilient to failures and multiple backup paths can be created between each node.