[gaia] Uplink?

"Miaofuyou (Miao Fuyou)" <fuyou.miao@huawei.com> Wed, 11 February 2015 06:50 UTC

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From: "Miaofuyou (Miao Fuyou)" <fuyou.miao@huawei.com>
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Subject: [gaia] Uplink?
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Just went through the mailing list archive and draft-manyfolks-gaia-community-networks, and found almost nothing about uplink. Uplink is the connectivity from the alternative network to the Internet. It is as important to alternative network as the access technology (WiFi, OpenRNC etc), and I believe it accounts for a large part of expense and deployment challenge. 

What is the status quo for uplink? 

- Miao