LocustWorld: Swarming over the traditional telcos
News Before LocustWorld there was Locust, described as a text messaging-based IM system. LocustWorld also sells a service called Mesh Voice aimed at corporate customers who want to replace their office PBX phone system with something a bit more twenty...
[December 30, 2004, 13:25]
LocustWorld: Swarming over the traditional telcos
Talkback I formerly worked as a CIO for a CLEC that serviced customers in 6 states of the US. As a result of actions taken by our nation's leadership in the FCC, the CLECs here in the US have been 'lawfully' dis-placed from being a viable form of...
[December 30, 2004, 16:35]
Mesh networking takes to the skies
News According to Richard Lander of LocustWorld, whose MeshAP software is used to run South Witham's network, the experiment's success shows the versatility of mesh networking. LocustWorld says its MeshAP allows a number of wireless access points to...
[February 24, 2005, 13:45]
Mesh networking embraces open-source telephony
News UK wireless networking company LocustWorld has added support for an open-source PBX application to its meshboxes which are used to build mesh networks. Asterisk can now be run on any node in a wireless network based on LocustWorld's MeshAP software.
[October 27, 2004, 12:55]
VoIP breakthrough claimed for mesh broadband
News Wireless broadband pioneer LocustWorld has added support for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to its range of mesh networking equipment. The move turns LocustWorld's mesh boxes, which link together to form a wireless network, into Voice over IP...
[April 14, 2004, 14:35]
Mesh networking goes industrial
News Wordsworth Technology, a UK supplier of supplier of industrial computers, has developed a ruggedized mesh networking box based on software from Locustworld, the UK company pioneering mesh networking. Wordsworth's new node, called the Pack Box, is...
[February 1, 2005, 12:25]
VIA secures mesh networking with on-chip encryption
News VIA announced late last week that Britain's mesh-networking company LocustWorld was the first commercial software developer to include support for PadLock ACE in its code. LocustWorld's open-source MeshAP software can dynamically configure multiple...
[September 27, 2004, 17:10]
Outdoor mesh box pushes wireless networks
News Called the iMesh, the device costs £350 and is designed to run the LocustWorld MeshAP software which dynamically configures multiple wireless access points into a wireless network, or mesh, running at 2.4GHz.
[September 23, 2004, 12:20]
Mesh brings broadband to rural Bucks
News Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College has installed four LocustWorld mesh boxes. LocustWorld is a small UK firm whose MeshAP system is being deployed worldwide, from Scotland and Yorkshire to the Washington State and the Gulf Coast of...
[April 23, 2004, 18:20]
Intel hangs mesh hopes on 802.11s
Talkback In fact, last week at the UK DTI ABC Summit http://www.abcampaign.org.uk, we heard Richard Lander of LocustWorld report that there are over 11,000 MeshBoxes deployed world wide. Mesh networks are deployed across the planet already.
[March 10, 2005, 2:55]
Solar-powered mesh project helps find new frog
News According to Richard Lander, co-founder of UK mesh networking company LocustWorld — whose technology is used in the network — the scheme itself may be the first of its kind. The network was designed and installed by Bruce Schulte, an American who...
[October 6, 2006, 15:35]
The pub's the hub for community broadband
News These receivers communicate with each other to create a wireless network in the area -- in a manner similar to the LocustWorld Mesh box. A wireless broadband service launched this month is attempting to use a combination of village pubs and mesh...
[April 6, 2004, 16:05]
Telcos battle to control community wireless
News Richard Lander of LocustWorld, a UK company whose mesh networking technology is being deployed in communities in 54 countries, believes that the established telcos face a big threat from wireless. A clash has broken out in the US between the City...
[December 1, 2004, 14:50]
Wireless broadband ISP in a box bridges gaps
News One UK company that many experts believe will play a big role in this scene is LocustWorld. Wireless equipment vendor Alvarion believes it has the answer to closing Britain's broadband divide -- a wireless ISP in a box.
[May 2, 2003, 13:06]
