Case study: E-governance

'Akshaya' for rural India The Akshaya project, the country's largest rural wireless network, helps bring the benefits of e-governance and utility services like basic connectivity to individual households in Kerala. A look at how it was managed in stages. by Akhtar Pasha The state government of Kerala, not only content with administering the most literate state in India, wanted to extend literacy efforts to the Web, through e-literacy. And it fulfilled this desire through the …

…terrain topography. As your network grows, any node can be promoted to become a repeater. The only requirement for a new node to get attached is to have RF connectivity to any node already on the network. This is a deployment strategy called anypoint-to-multipoint, since any node already in the network can become the center of a point-to-multipoint branch. Hard-to-reach locations that are obstructed can easily be reached once the VINE spreads into that neighborhood.