Facebook Open-Sources Community Cellular Manager
Facebook announced the open-sourcing of a solution aimed at furthering its mission of connecting the world.
Facebook announced the open-sourcing of a solution aimed at furthering its mission of connecting the world.
Software engineers Kurtis Heimeri and Steve Muir and infrastructure strategist Shaddi Hasan announced in a blog post last week that the code for Community Cellular Manager is available via GitHub.
They described CCM as a software management and deployment suite that enables the operation of small-scale cellular networks, adding that it is compatible with the OpenCellular platform the social network introduced in June, as well as with third-party radio-access-network solutions and saying:
CCM is designed for reliable operation in environments with unreliable power and backhaul, providing fully disconnected operation for local voice and SMS services.
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