[SoaS] [IAEP][DP] Announcing the creation of a SoaS Decision Panel

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Luke Faraone <luke at faraone.cc> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 05:28, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Not sure what that's got to do with it? The olpc mesh isn't 802.11s
>> capable. I mean for mesh communications between the XOs.
>
> Really?
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Path_Discovery_Mechanism/Differences_from_80211s
> states that the OLPC mesh implements a subset/dialect of 802.11s, which is
> still a draft standard. The hardware will be fully capable of using the
> finished standard once it is implemented.

Its different enough that its not compatible, from memory it has to do
with the way the frames are forwarded or something like that. The HW
is compatible with a different firmware, but then most of the 802 HW
should be capable of it as its basically an extension to the existing
802.11 standards.

Peter