Southampton Open Wireless Network www sown org uk

Southampton Open Wireless Network www. sown. org. uk

Outline Southampton Open Wireless Network • Aims of SOWN • Technical Outline • Campus nodes • Servers • SOWN[at]HOME nodes • Current Projects and Research • How to get involved • Any questions? www. sown. org. uk

Southampton Open Wireless Network SOWN is a Research led Network looking at Advanced Wireless and Network Technologies City wide wireless CAN – Community Area Network (LAN Game Compatible) Cutting edge technologies Experimental deployments Projects for undergraduate degrees www. sown. org. uk

Technical - Campus • SOWN was an ad-hoc Mesh network • Now we have some campus nodes which use i. Solutions’ network to talk to the Internet and the rest of SOWN • Currently there are two high powered nodes working atop of SUSU and Zepler Buildings • Run embedded PCs with Voyage Linux or Open. WRT • Southampton Open Wireless Network High powered (>400 mw) mini. PCI wifi cards www. sown. org. uk

Technical – Servers • Rack mount servers located in building 32 (EEE) • sown-auth – does what it says on the tin – This server is our authentication server for Web Redirect and 802. 1 x. We are directly peered with University login servers and through them to eduroam • sown-vpn – Responsible for handling back-haul links from remote nodes so that they can talk to auth • Southampton Open Wireless Network sown-nat – allows access to the internet for users of the on campus nodes and for all machines to update online etc. Also runs SNMP and cacti to make pretty graphs www. sown. org. uk

More Servers! • sown-6 core – IPv 6 router for SOWN • sown-ha – The Mobile IPv 6 Home Agent (ha) for ECS and SOWN • sown-dev – Development server for testing of new technologies. Interesting things like Voice over IP are running on this box • Southampton Open Wireless Network sown-backup 3 – A dedicated sown backup server. 1 & 2 are shared function. … + there are more www. sown. org. uk

SOWN[at]Home Southampton Open Wireless Network • Plug’n’Play wireless access points to allow SOWN access to be broadcast from users house with the minimum of fuss • Just plug it in to a free network port on your router and switch on! • Makes use of home ADSL line for internet access • Tunnels are set up to sown-vpn so SOWN network access is granted. • User authentication is passed down the tunnel to sown-auth • Nodes are made by Meraki, but run with our own firmware based on Open. WRT (linux distribution for home routers) which is configured to work with SOWN. www. sown. org. uk

Current Research Southampton Open Wireless Network • Wi. MAX • 802. 11 r • 802. 11 a • Multicast – SOWN TV • Vo. IP – Internet phone in your home • IPv 6 Mobility – Take your IP with you • IPv 6 multi-homing – Resilient global addressing • Eduroam Cloud www. sown. org. uk

Buzzwords/Technology Southampton Open Wireless Network Quagga Open. VPN Cacti DHCP Vo. IP SNMP RADIUS Zebra RIP OSPF PIMD RIPng PHP Bash LDAP SSL My. SQL Debian VLAN IPv 6 IEEE 802. 11 SSH Nagios iptables Multicast Wi. MAX Voyage Linux Firmware Apache ramond Web 2. 0 Open. WRT DNS Wiki www. sown. org. uk

What SOWN needs! Southampton Open Wireless Network • Enthusiastic People • Community Users to Help Expand the Network • 3 rd Year Project Students • 4 th Year IRPs • Internship Students! www. sown. org. uk

Get Involved! Southampton Open Wireless Network • Put a home node in your house! • www. sown. org. uk • #sown on irc. sown. org. uk (hosted by ECS) • Mailing list • Weekly meetings (and occasional ‘surgery’ days at the weekend for the extra keen – see web site) • Chat to us now! • email: committee@sown. org. uk www. sown. org. uk

Many thanks to: • Dr Les Carr and Dr Tim Chown (ECS Staff) • David Tarrant • James Morse • Dave Newman • Paul Dart (now Thales – radio mast deployments division) • Nick Humfrey (now BBC – web 2. 0 development) • Colin Williams • + many others! www. sown. org. uk