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yeah and I am excited to share with you
all how we built in decentralized
whereas Internet service provider and
rural Oregon so this is cos tonight I'm
the chair for about 13 years it's a kind
of a typical world community it has a
sparse population some challenging
geography large Douglas fir trees these
hills and mountains and folks that are
working for us and lower income and like
many rural areas it also suffers from
lots of folks that don't have very good
access and it's very slow for us to see
people in our community with a megabit
per second of Internet no access at all
because if satellite or cost as a
barrier this is too expensive but there
is actually other internet service
providers in this area that I tried to
connect people and stop these folks and
not been very successful and also in
fact about five years ago there was a
our USDA grant to serve a mix of
wireless and fiber infrastructure with
some of the outlying areas that also
suffered from many things that we see is
very typical with fancy programs there
wasn't a lot of accountability when I
was sure that actually didn't practice
or those folks that they they had
promised to do and one of the big key
things is those know sustainability so
the money was dropped into the community
and then as the wireless infrastructure
age the Internet service provider had no
incentive to continue to put money and
resources back into my connection and
this also isn't the whole story
it's not just that these folks have no
internet access in fact a long time of
that main corridor through town the main
highway and then access is actually very
good we can get itself megabits per
second and as fiber and it's portable
but anything beyond that one well that
one kind of narrow corridor there's no
ability to get that internet access to
those folks in outlying areas but there
is a better way is that one company
owning all of the infrastructure of the
network Alphaeus software lets us
leverage the existing homes and
businesses in an efficient way
and they'll in a centralized network
where a person pay each other for
bandwidth and this is accomplished by
people in the community you know
their homes or the businesses are farm
they host some hardware that might look
like other than an antenna or some
cables and then they get paid
automatically with the software to host
us and here's an example of what that
looks like right here so that top
antenna is connected to a high speed
fiber backhaul in the community and then
that bottom it said they won't skinny
sector antennas connected to his
neighbors and then both of those cables
route to the elfia runner in this house
that provides his internet access does
all the property and the building
automatically and this creates you know
sort of a viral and sensitive or for the
network girls that happens automatically
in fact um Matt will look like about
once a week take a bottle alliance and
his neighbor's house and see if they
wanted to connect it to the end of that
it is pretty fact I do
get up and this is a curator both in a
local group of the folks that help if
there's problems or they want to help
you people install that kind of thing
and in this sort of a configuration that
says like lower the build-out costs so
instead of that one essential antenna
that if you can only get at a crane or
that you can only get the people within
that few said about Central antenna
we're able to sort of configure this
network in the Agilent dynamic way and
this also creates more equitable
governance so here is kind of good idea
what the internet looks like today right
so you have the discreet connections
with proprietary hardware from from each
of you and that service providers in
your area and you know legacy Internet
users paying high prices for slow speeds
because the last node networks a style
of brightest ownership and have a really
long long walk in but here's about Thea
and I've heard he creates like one open
network I made a little different
different orders and the network uses
all these things available to you know
dynamically switch between different
Internet service providers using
different orpheus' and intercept service
providers and using all the links
available using the best speeds and
offering a copy I don't super internet
for everyone so if you're something that
the customer network so you can kind of
see so class and I we set up a Nokia and
work in there's about 40 users on there
right now and you can see that sort of
agile and different ownership such wise
ownership that we have here each of
these different colors is a different
reading this forwarding bandwidth to
their neighbors and using their own home
to put some a ton of hardware on there's
another example there to work out with
to their neighbors and one of the kind
of exciting things about via is that you
use a price aware of our routing
protocol and so what that does that
instead of only selecting the best
routes based on the total round-trip
time we're also taking the cost of no
effect and so that makes sort of an
automatically competitive link so not
only are people instead of ice to set up
new links and add more capacity I think
those are too expensive
it's nice to set up competitive things
and we can encrypt you grip the whole
that worked with with wire guard and
using a and like what we call the exit
node which is just like a VPN or server
adds a sensor and that that server also
that I said node also verifies all the
routes and the prices on are advertised
as well and this is done by by you the
neighbors paying for the bandwidth I was
taken by perk if I excuse me with it the
area where X I so listen even so this is
another one of our be ladies here I see
so far over and she's got that I really
long green there enough who be a spy it
was kind of out the valley area very
difficult to reach area otherwise and
this is so there's not really moving
poor oxes before and so she she has
their incentive here has an incoming
connection at the top those two
connections those two antennas brought
to her her neighbors and her mother her
Althea Robinson house is often dropping
and the building and also provides her
Wi-Fi access and her home her connection
automatically so for her to discuss her
internet and her cost is offset from the
that about six connections that she
house on that honor that connected to
her and you can see this is casually
it's kind of blurry you can see the
connections I'm going out for her fermer
easy just coming in from her for
Connecticut neighbors and there's some
of those minutes minutes a neighbor's so
this is also a really great case did
this is mrs. Clark here and he he's up
on that hill from that and so he is
another hop and that serves wait out to
be very far reaches to the valley
they're having a heart failure typical
to get an area that we would not be able
to get otherwise and you know one of the
the farmers and then this is 10 over the
top I don't have a picture of her but
this is the some of that is on resources
house and this one is really like
exciting stories about how this
technology moving makes an impact on
communities Beatrice had no internet for
four years and prior to this because of
costs and you know she's a 16 or
something so her and her with four of my
siblings were staying late after school
or going to libraries the Internet to
their work and with her her parents are
also worked you know they will jobs and
so then the family just never saw each
other this is really you know just
impacting their quality of life
so she's aim to be connected to her
thirty Melinda told her about it and
- you know even pay for what she uses
and it's affordable and it's you know 40
50 megabits a second it's that you know
the the only other alternative is like
you know may have a per second so one of
you know anyone would see her the damn
excited out she came out pull their
laptop to say you know this is this is
the best day ever and I think it really
is amazing to see those those values in
place and another thing that I think is
kind of interesting is that when we
first up this project up we so love my
neighbor who said my community members
on faster in about at cheaper internet
that's just really simple value
propositions but as the network has
evolved and United more people I start
to hear people talk about ownership and
choice and some of these other ideals
that you know envision decentralized
networks so this is an example of like
you know we have multiple connections is
sort of redundancy and resiliency that
we didn't see silence as well so both of
these antennas are connected to
different relays it's actually to be
kind of dumb enough on bottom right hand
corner there and this the writing
protocol will select the route on a
second-by-second basis based on the
round-trip time and the world cost so it
also if one of the it's one of the
relays were to go down this
I danced with brought back for the other
relay so right now people are using
aetherium
to to pay for their internet they buy a
serial on a coin they stop right now or
they could they could buy with anything
but you said it's our card and then they
send it to the router wallet by scanning
a QR code on there on the router and the
router house brother then also gives us
our building and so usage information
keep up to date on that and then when
the and then what a balance is looking a
text message so it's really pretty
simple on word processor folks pretty
easy to understand with values there and
one of the new things that we've just
recently the mid suicide which is very
exciting is that people buy an area miss
head of the etherium sue their router
wallet we have any bridge so then it'll
bridge to do bridges 2x i to sink my
table and that's not just about seeing
this a in their honor
and then the payment settles when on the
the gas is 5% of the total transaction
so you'll see sometimes in high pass
times you know they want some up for an
hour to something so it didn't want to
touch briefly as well on the fact that
these are these are actually community
members that have no experience with
ethereal cryptocurrency prior to I'm
going to use it to pay for their
internet it since reading is pretty
exciting stuff and actually about 1/3 of
my network senior citizens so yeah it's
really exciting and I found it a couple
of couple of things one is if we spend a
little bit of time during that mongering
process on a one-on-one basis and goes
pretty smoothly and then after that I
just sort of initial me even just 10 or
15 minutes at one of my time folks are
able to use that on an ongoing way a
couple of other things I notice too is
that we use the terms and digital
currency it's a crypto and payment app
this set of exchange and even just from
simplifying up those two key turns has
led to I think a lot less friction than
we normally
scene so we do also recognize though
that at this point
networks aren't earning to necessarily
totally autonomously people to have
customer support question is that they
may need help with things so we have
what we call work erasers and this is
just you know people within their local
community that set up so typically go
ahead any week I get a lot of see we
have that in one of our networks or a
non-profit or cooperative and a couple
of them the one in the house can is a
member of a cooperative and these so
these simple people help us all support
the network but they're also
incentivized as well so they're in
sideways suit with a local ad prorated
subscription fee which is also
automatically debited from the router
seamlessly for the end-user so they can
they can partner with other people to
set up on you know the relays the
gateways and the other pieces of
hardware in the network but still we see
the separate sunset so the honor and
beyond the rural environment we're
really excited to see some of these new
networks coming on board here very very
very soon this is a couple cooperative
Network there
area south of Seattle Washington and
they should be watching Aaron within the
next 60 days the we took them through
what we call our off the in this program
so that's basically a pre-registration
Diana if any of you are familiar with
Brockman community there's there's a
thing called fiber than Google didn't
where you might've gone into an area get
people to pre-register kind of
front-load that user acquisition this
would really well so these they started
out about June with their pre
registration sites and marketing
materials and support from us and they
have about they haven't eighty people
now pre-register their it would be close
to their their 100 threshold by the time
they're cheap about then we have a
couple more networks as well one in the
Napa area of California and in Abuja
Nigeria that will be starting as well
and more people that are down getting
imported together in this process we
find it takes about especially since it
takes a while to get back cool as hell
fiber connection it takes people over to
at four and six months to go from there
pre-registration exciting to shovel in
the dirt so just kind of surmise via
networks are owned and run
which is another sort of I think really
excited about the proposition is that
the the revenue and the economic
potential of the network is is happy in
that community instead of someone coming
to the area and stock do not economic
benefit it stays their own the community
this share amongst the community members
it has a built in competition it's the
price we're around protocols and always
inside advise people to set up out of my
competition it's as they creates my
automatic sustainability so as a supply
cement network continues to expand there
always be us that then insensate side
for more bandwidth because it is paid
for Houston which you always want a lot
of how people use more rain and a bit
more I don't know benefit and it's like
a very true period of clear statement in
your Labor's paint neighbors for
bandwidth of the enables communities but
essential as networks creating faster
and cheaper internet for everyone thank
you and I thought if you want me to do
some questions if there's time we're
going to questions
I don't wanna get started you know just
talking on video showing the or that's
what Sylvia means and Howell because in
the end is selected boom it's an
investment for them to know or don't
they have any initial costs and they -
stop - so the question was how you
convince people to invest more aware so
you talked about in the case of these
relays you saw with the antennas they're
either there's a very easy ROI so like
Linda's making 100 bucks every couple of
months so it was pretty easy compete
with six users so actually have four
using you can look at what that is per
month and I think she has about you know
six or seven hundred dollars would've
been
okay so we're gonna just kind of common
or interface with relays and let them
know about what they can expect in terms
of costs to the equipment what they can
expect for revenues that was not your
question okay
the router is welcome welcome Pete they
brought another it's a one-time fee yes
super networks of the stock differently
so they like the old film network of is
it's a higher income area so they pay up
front from the equipment I'm in the
installation whereas in like the network
in the scrum a cooperative Network it's
lower income areas the organs which are
subsidized and some of that cost as well
I'm gonna have a router here too so if
anybody wants to buy it later you can
with us for a little bit I think
you've been asking for a while
yeah sorry if you already said it I
didn't like that check like legal issues
of the ISPs is this basically like one
contract the one consumer and then
they're sharing it how are you
communicating with a backbone and an
older and would it be any potential
light corporation there yeah that's a
good question
so when we said these networks up we
bring in a whole self image and that's
gonna be solvable connection and then
you call us up at the gateway right so
someone in the network is actually
behind
back haul to direction of monoxide
transit or transmitter or something
that's resolvable right and it from that
anchor point and then of course all
agree that it's going to be solve a
problem with the healthy networks ask
about that as far as legal issues in the
United States very very simple for ISP
shops but a forum for 7/7 which they've
indicated to us that we do because we're
aware so the exit node how that
personally
so that so that can get hurt but it is
what we call the Gateway location and so
it basically works like a relay they get
got was up by over backhaul and many of
the dark outside because I'm also
connection it'll very expensive though
and it's sold in the contract so that
it's typically a business person that
comes in and does them because it's it's
a little bit lower ry a little bit more
money that kind of thing
sorry reciting from the collar of some
law and be less I'm not
actually this mean that the red person
right next note is responsible for the
content or the congregations of a
community so how are the legal issues
compliance
have there been the episodes somebody
not yet actually gonna be but yeah
that's the responsibility and this
further Network we have here obviously
the exit go for that and the vision is
the user world that many different
accent they can choose from but yeah and
that's the point in the internet service
provider where you're done is turning
onto the rest of the internet so that's
always going to be the one is
responsible for that and we don't want
the current saw bouncer doing there I
mean obviously not there you have to see
right place setting a microwave chance
they're excited so I was just wondering
if you had any problems again its little
patience I don't care but the learner
City so we operated in the unlicensed
spectrum of a fighting arts so if we
were to combine it there and then in
this coma cooperative Network we'll be
using on the chair biking it hurts my
license my children 60 gigahertz which
is the millimeter even so we'll be able
to push on even higher speeds but that's
also fun nice things so you know free to
use within power limits which we the
antennas are already configured in that
way so in different areas incentives are
kind of the air because you don't have
much options but for example in those
incentives that people have to put some
troubles yeah well yes I've been serving
I think there's about 12,000 people in
the neighborhood in just a few blocks
and it's faster than the current
offerings honestly less expensive and
it's community - OH
the brightest we already got any people
to sign up to start so you like points
the neighborhoods that make sense the
Putin says yes yeah absolutely so we do
what we do guys impose people people you
should just come to us and say I want to
run at the end and then we're committing
or but it's great
let's look at it what we do find isn't
you know everybody's angry with big
telecom but that either isn't enough to
get people to switch trades like you
know maybe one to three percent a great
base just on people think company here
but yeah a million orders to be by well
we do also you know work with people to
look at their markets in the Sahara
going to be able to have traction here
but you know what I'll say when you go
into these neighborhoods and and then to
the hilltop neighborhood and worked with
the organizers there everyone wants to
be remade they want to know how they can
make money with their you know favorite
hangout space on the road sorry I don't
remember this first I'm so sorry
so we always want our users to be able
to use something easy to get like
etherion and something stable that died
so that's that we don't want people that
are subscribing to have any kind of Wick
oh so so the so the eventual plan what
we're working on now is that right now
as these transactions take place by for
psychosis etherion miners right so our
thing is that we are going to bridge to
nong khiaw died and then an off via
token that is built on cosmos and then
they'll see yourself at home
to collect five percent of the of the
transaction teens in the network so as
the network grows yes yeah that's a good
question um so yes but Thea is some
friends on that consumer heart of heart
rather the people's house
so whatever antennas you connect to that
it's agnostic to it so you saw that
ubiquity near here and it's a coma
community cooperative Network that's
going to be thinking might pretend 60
gigahertz that kind of thing and so each
of one of those antennas has limitations
based on the antenna hardware so the
room where they saw their that big
sector is you know they can take about
thirty two points of about performance
and the smaller ones a little skinny guy
a list of time so he but it's agnostic
so whatever you want to use with the
news TV right spaces of
those islands you can we can fly since
my salsa purpose so it doesn't matter
you took private between you and they're
not the end
no it's about me like that way wonderful
itself bill very softly yeah so I have
that since this is consumer are
available online
our software is open to the ort base
it's open source and you just watch them
onto the router table set question
still on everybody do we do so best
effort support raspberry pie but one
thing where I was required by the time
you get the case and you get the Wi-Fi
announcement that this is seventy bucks
on Amazon so yeah alright well thank you
very very much it's been fun
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