North Carolina State University’s Centennial Campus has implemented one of the country’s first large-scale, outdoor, experimental wireless networks using open source software. The project is called CentMesh, which stands for Centennial Outdoor Wireless Mesh Network Testbed for Research and Education. It will begin operating this month.

The mesh network is made up of 14 wireless access points located strategically throughout the campus. Read the entire article at campustechnology.com.