FabFi: Building High-Speed Wireless in Afghanistan from Scrap (2010)
Volunteers in Afghanistan -- both locals and foreigners from the MIT Bits and Atoms lab -- have been building out a wireless network made largely from locally scrounged junk. They call it 'FabFi' and it's kicking ass, especially when compared with the World Bank-funded alternative, which has spent seven years and hundreds of millions of dollars and only managed its first international link last summer.
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Murugavel Ganesan
Product Director | SerDes · IVN · Edge AI · Compute | Ex Intel · Infineon
A semiconductor product leader working across product architecture, definition, strategy, and silicon and software execution, from concept through volume production. He has worked with teams across Asia, Europe and the USA, including at Intel, Infineon and ArrayComm.
His work covers ASICs, SoCs, FPGAs and chiplets for wireless, wireline, automotive, IoT and AI, including PCIe, CXL and DDR interfaces alongside RF and mixed-signal design.
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