Indian Wi-Fi Mesh Spun Using Google

The citizens of Mumbai, India may soon be blessed with a wireless mesh network that should blanket the city.  And although Lifestyle Networks and its managing director, Abhishek Javeri, are behind this development, Mumbai’s citizens will also owe a thank-you to Google.

Google, according to Light Reading’s Ray Le Maistre, “comes into play . . . in the network planning.”  For optimal efficiency, Javeri and his team “used the Google mapping service to work out where the radios should be positioned so that the whole city can be covered with a signal . . . .”  Yet Javeri didn’t exactly sit at his computer and type in random addresses to achieve this even spread.

“LifeStyle’s team has input the GPS . . . coordinates of the network’s nodes into the individual radios, which in turn feed data into the Google application to create an online network map for the company to use,” notes, the strategy is already spreading.