As I am doing, also, would be to submit to a grant process from somewhere - ardc is who I am targeting primarily with my proposal, but nlnet has been a consistent funder, and (sometimes), comcast. I keep hoping the telecom infrastructure project gains clue with their openwifi group - but far too few overall can understand the vision you have. I was hoping that now that enough people knew that starlink had gone fq_codel that there would be a rush to implement - but noooooo.... and you want to go waaaay beyond that. I think talking about where you want to go in front of 802.11 would be a great place to start. I was planning on attending netdevconf in san jose in mid july, the next 802.11 wg meeting is in montreal https://web.cvent.com/event/64f6931c-b20d-44af-a54e-4830fa2f7097/summary On Sun, Jun 2, 2024 at 5:11 PM Bob McMahon wrote: > I'm interested in group designing an open API or equivalent over a high > speed serial/digital interface to drive a remote Wi-Fi lower MAC, digital > PHY, analog PHY, CMOS radio(s) and front end modules. The upper MAC would > reside in the fronthaul concentrator and be remote, supporting up to 48 MAC > lowers. Hopefully scale to maybe to higher. Basically, Wi-Fi goes point to > point into the fronthaul concentrator, i.e. following the evolution of > ethernet switching but without the CAT 5 for the final leash. > > The L2TPv3 w/pseudowires used for eCRPI are an analogy. So is DAA of cable > plant OSP. > > Assume the seriali interface speed is a minimum of 10Gb/s but will go to > 100Gb/s and then likely to 800b/s. All at very low power and guiding the > photons to/from their destinations with last meter wireless. > > WiFi control and 802.11 packets would be carried over this interface. > > Can't be a NIC/sun workstation model on these remote radio heads requiring > expensive CPUs and way too much power. This will also isolate WiFi radios > from the SoCs and the internal switches, typically found in todays' APs, > which is a bit of a Frankenstein design the industry has adopted for some > unknown reasons. > > Bob > > On Sun, Jun 2, 2024 at 4:45 PM Dave Taht via Make-wifi-fast < > make-wifi-fast@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote: > >> There is HUGE NSF grant coming available concerning wifi, and I was also >> thinking that applying to ardc might be an option. >> >> Does anyone here still care enough about wifi to want to participate? In >> my case I would like to gear up mainly to get into and stay >> in the wifi8 standardization process in the IEEE, although I am surfacing >> to fix some bugs and try to make improvements in the mt79 chipset which is >> thus far, pretty amazing. I am really pleased with OpenWrt on this chip, so >> far. An OpenWrt one should be arriving any day.... >> >> Anyway, a start at a proposal for ardc is here: >> >> >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x2HBYmSJbMoVMbLzKgkOVSvMnIFZdJQE823Jlg0mfX0/edit?usp=sharing >> >> >> -- >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVFWSyMp3xg&t=1098s Waves Podcast >> Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos >> _______________________________________________ >> Make-wifi-fast mailing list >> Make-wifi-fast@lists.bufferbloat.net >> https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/make-wifi-fast > > > This electronic communication and the information and any files > transmitted with it, or attached to it, are confidential and are intended > solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and > may contain information that is confidential, legally privileged, protected > by privacy laws, or otherwise restricted from disclosure to anyone else. If > you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering > the e-mail to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, > copying, distributing, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of > this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, > please return the e-mail to the sender, delete it from your computer, and > destroy any printed copy of it. -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVFWSyMp3xg&t=1098s Waves Podcast Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos