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2001 History

01/11
Relocated to UltraDevices office (too much noise @ Dana St.), Ross presented his FreeBSD IBSS AP (available @ Dana St.), Dewayne Hendricks explains "dealing with the FCC, from within & the external public polices", Cliff showed his hack-in-progress "Solar AP", Matt passed around his dirty Power over Ethernet hack, Cliff made a motion to split the mailing list up, not favored at this time.

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10/18
Dr. Bernard Aboba of Microsoft spoke about 802.1X and survey current IETF and IEEE standards relating to 802.11 security. Discussion on problems with 802.11 security, and the new generation of 802.11 devices based on IEEE 802.1X, RADIUS, and EAP. Mr. Aboba has much additional information available at his website.

Robert Berger of UltraDevices presented their first product offering; an 802.11a outdoor radio wish intelligence meshed routing. Brief discussion on product target market, deployment, and production unit status.

Final meeting at AboveNet in San Jose; we no longer have any inside contacts for meeting space. Special thanks to Dan Fitzpatrick for putting up with us this long.

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AboveNet
San Jose
11/14
(4:10 - 53:10) Todd Hansen has been doing some "pushing the limits" work down in San Diego with Hans-Werner Braun's HPWREN project. Slides.

(56:54 - 01:34:20) James Goodwin, software engineer of Filanet Corporation; presented Filanet's InterJak 200. Slides.

(01:35:36 - 02:05:20) Clif Cox happened to be in town and decided to give a impromptu presentation on his networking projects in Bhutan. He also gave us a "guts view" of his outdoor AP box design and Spectralink IP phones.

RealVideo

Alexa Internet
San Francisco
2000 History

09/28
1st meeting! Matt will continue to host web site & mailing list, no need to 501c ourselves yet, Tim mentions the need for a mission/goal(s)

Critical Path
San Francisco
10/12
Meetings scheduled for 2nd Thursday of the month, current focus on building useful documents & other resources for the community, Tim drafts 802.11 & FCC guide, Ross begins work on IBSS vs. BSS document

Critical Path
San Francisco
11/02
Matt presents Access Point matrix, BAWUG web site is online, Intel 2011 Q&A

Critical Path
San Francisco
12/07
Tim presents Antenna 101, Cliffs demos OpenNAP web listing

Critical Path
San Francisco