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ZeroDivide Roundup August 16 edition
Eugene Chan
| 16 August 2007 - 11:58am
Sorry for the long silence on the blog, but things have definitely been busy here ZeroDivide HQ.
- We moved offices! But our URL didn’t change and that’s the important thing, right?
- Read the Technology Review article on wireless equipment provider, Meraki which includes mention and a quote from Mike McCarthy who is overseeing the wireless wiring with the Booker T Washington Center.
- CTF Board member Jim Fruchterman is interviewed in IT Conversations.
- CTF friend and Hip hop Initiative advisory member, Bakari Kitwana, appeared on the O’Reilly Factor on a session to debate the participation of hip hop artist Nas at a concert at Virginia Tech.
!http://farm1.static.flickr.com/145/352266917_bd46853b97_m.jpg(Bakari Kitwana at CTF meeting){.right}!
- CTF will be at the Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Bootcamp are proud to be one of the sponsors—so come visit our staff which will have a booth on the expo floor. Bootcamp goes from 830 t0 1630 (See military time.) this Saturday August 18 at the UC Berkeley Campus. More details at the Craigslist Foundation page: http://www.craigslistfoundation.org.
That’s all for now. Expect more updates now that we are settling in.
(Hat tip to Paul Lamb.)
Merkaki
Eugene:
As I mentioned in the article Meraki’s networks are very easy to setup and to manage.
This week I installed a Meraki network at a 7 story SRO in the Tenderloin. The only challenge was getting Ethernet cable from the 2nd floor where the DSL is to the 4th and 6th floors. Once that was done it took about 3 hours to install the Merakis. I installed 3 outdoor Meraki units that acted as gateways (on the 2nd, 4th and 6th floors). Each of them received power over Ethernet which allowed me to "stick" them on the wall on those 3 floors.
I then installed 11 meraki wall plugs in the hallways. These units plug directly into an electrical outlet and repeat the signal sent from the closet gateway or wall plug. The wall plugs were developed by Net Equality in Portland who are a reseller of Meraki’s
www.netequality.org/store.html
The reporter is also working on a similar story for the SF Chronicle.
Mike
The Meraki's seems awesome...
You should get a commission from them!
The wall plugs are networking over powerlines? That's cool.
eugene