Seattle Wireless is an American

United States

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 non-profit project

Non-profit organization

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 created by Matt Westervelt and Ken Caruso in June 2000. It seeks to develop a free, locally-owned wireless community network

Wireless community network

Wireless community networks or wireless community projects are the organizations that attempt to take a grassroots approach to providing a viable alternative to municipal wireless networks for consumers....

 using widely-available, license-free technology wireless

Wireless

Wireless telecommunications is the transfer of information between two or more points that are not physically connected. Distances can be short, such as a few meters for television remote control, or as far as thousands or even millions of kilometers for deep-space radio communications...

 broadband

Broadband

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 Internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 access. It is a metropolitan area network

Metropolitan area network

A metropolitan area network is a computer network that usually spans a city or a large campus. A MAN usually interconnects a number of local area networks using a high-capacity backbone technology, such as fiber-optical links, and provides up-link services to wide area networks and the...

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Seattle Wireless is one of the first Community Wireless Networks and one of the first project focused wikis. It also had a short lived (7 episode) online television show, prior to the recent surge in videocasting and podcasting, called Seattle Wireless TV. It was created by Peter Yorke and Michael Pierce and ran July 2003 - June 2004. SWTV was an early adopter of Bittorrent to distribute its shows.

External links

• Official website
• Matt's Blog
• Seattle Wireless Blog Planet
• Peter Yorke's Blog
• Kahney, Leander, "Home-grown Wireless Networks", TheFeature
  TheFeature
  TheFeature.com was an award-winning online magazine and community dedicated to covering the technological, cultural and business evolution of the mobile Internet and the wider mobile telecommunications industry. Sponsored by , it was launched in August 2000 and continued through June 2005...
  
  , 2001-05-07
• Fleishman, Glenn, "The revolution may be wireless", Seattle Weekly
  Seattle Weekly
  Seattle Weekly is a freely distributed newspaper in Seattle, Washington, United States. It was founded by Darrell Oldham and David Brewster as The Weekly...
  
  , 2001-07-18
• O'Shea, Dan, "Peace, Love & Wi-Fi", Telephony Online, 2002-05-18
• Kharif, Olga, "Footing the Bill for Free Wi-Fi", BusinessWeek
  BusinessWeek
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  , 2002-09-17
• "The Insider: Lucky few are going locomotive over Wi-Fi access", Seattle PI, 2005-03-28