Commotion Wireless

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Commotion Wireless
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Website www.commotionwireless.net

Commotion Wireless was an open-source wireless mesh network for electronic communication. [1] [2] The project was developed by the Open Technology Institute, and development included a $2 million grant from the United States Department of State in 2011 for use as a mobile ad hoc network (MANET), concomitant with the Arab Spring. [3] [ independent source needed ] It was preliminarily deployed in Detroit in late 2012, [1] [2] and launched generally in March 2013. [4] The project was called an "Internet in a Suitcase". [5] [6]

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Commotion 1.0, the first non-beta release, was launched on December 30, 2013. [7]

After an initial flurry of attention, the project did not prove sustainable. The code development profiles for the project have not been updated since 2016, [8] and the project's website has been offline since approximately September 2024. [9]

Commotion relied on several open source projects: OLSR, OpenWrt, OpenBTS, and Serval project. [10]

Supported hardware

Ubiquiti:

TP-Link:

Mikrotik:

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Higginbotham, Stacey (18 December 2012). "Detroit is the testing ground for a new open source wireless network technology". GigaOM . Archived from the original on December 30, 2012.
  2. 1 2 Parker, Tammy (19 December 2012). "First Detroit, then the world for Commotion mesh networking". Fierce Broadband Wireless. Archived from the original on 14 March 2013. Retrieved 7 March 2013.
  3. ↑ Ritchie S. King (July 2011). "Building a Subversive Grassroots Network". Spectrum. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers . Retrieved 7 March 2013.
  4. ↑ Goodman, Amy (5 March 2013). "Sharing the Internet: "Commotion Wireless" Technology Lets Communities Create Free Webs of Access". Democracy Now . Retrieved 7 March 2013.
  5. ↑ James Glanz and John Markoff (12 June 2011). "U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors". The New York Times . Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  6. ↑ Associated Press (15 July 2011). "Iran says it can block 'Internet in a suitcase'". Yahoo News . Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  7. ↑ "New America's Open Technology Institute Releases Commotion 1.0 Mesh Networking Toolkit | NewAmerica.org". Archived from the original on 2014-01-02. Retrieved 2014-01-01.
  8. ↑ Open Technology Institute - Github - commotion-router , retrieved November 23, 2025
  9. ↑ Wayback Machine - calendar of commotionwireless.net , retrieved November 23, 2025
  10. ↑ "FAQ".


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