Commotion Wireless was an open-source wireless mesh network for electronic communication.^[1][2] The project was developed by the Open Technology Institute, and development included a $2 million grant from the United States Department of State in 2011 for use as a mobile ad hoc network (MANET), concomitant with the Arab Spring.^{[3][independent source needed]} It was preliminarily deployed in Detroit in late 2012,^[1][2] and launched generally in March 2013.^[4] The project was called an "Internet in a Suitcase".^[5][6]

Commotion 1.0, the first non-beta release, was launched on December 30, 2013.^[7]

After an initial flurry of attention, the project did not prove sustainable. The code development profiles for the project have not been updated since 2016,^[8] and the project's website has been offline since approximately September 2024. ^[9]

Commotion relied on several open source projects: OLSR, OpenWrt, OpenBTS, and Serval project.^[10]

Supported hardware

Ubiquiti:

• PicoStation M2, Release 1 & 1.1, DR2
• Bullet M2/M5, Release 1 & 1.1, DR2
• NanoStation M2/M5, Release 1 & 1.1, DR2
• Rocket M2/M5, Release 1 & 1.1, DR2
• UniFi AP, Release 1 & 1.1
• UniFi Outdoor, Release 1 & 1.1

TP-Link:

• TL-WDR3600, Release 1.1
• TL-WDR4300, Release 1.1

Mikrotik:

• RB411AH, Release 1.1

See also

• List of router and firewall distributions

References

External links

• Official website

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