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3GSM: Next WiFi, or Wi-Next, offers "everything network"

Definitely "out of left field" is a new piece of software, NAAW, which "can transform a wide variety of devices into network nodes," using WiFi. The company name is just the start of the mystery, because it's called Wi-Next - but Google can't cope with that, and will point you, mostly, at viruses, or Windows extensions.

What it actually is, is some kind of mesh.

NAAW is never expanded, but it is described on the web site as "The development of instruments able to create networks in a simple and economic way to help crossing the digital divide and to avoid new digital colonisation." As you can probably guess, this is a translation. From Italian, it would seem.

"The first step of this ambitious path, in order to achieve our mission, is represented from the birth of NAAW," it continues: "Coming from a partnership with the Department of Automatics and Informatics of Politecnico in Turin, NAAW is an innovative software technology able to transform a wide variety of device in(to) network nodes and to bring the wireless communication networks everywhere, without geographic or infrastructure limits, in an instantaneous and automatic way."

Anybody interested in a demonstration: sign up here. Otherwise, go to the main web site.