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American and UK military come clean - "we use Locustworld Mesh..." for WiFi broadband

A constant criticism of the LocustWorld WiFi mesh system has been from corporate users, who want a more "corporate" looking supplier. Frustrating for LocustWorld marketing boss Richard Lander, because he has plenty of blue chip customers - and in particular, Javelin Broadband - providing the most prestige customers you could ask for. But it's very hard to get the military to admit what tech they use.

Javelin has now got the go-ahead to publicise its work for both UK and US air force and army bases in the UK and Germany.

In a recent interview Peter Streatfield, CEO of Javelin said "These bases are typically the size of small towns, often located in remote areas. The military bases have unusual demographics, accommodating unsurprisingly mainly young, single people. They tend to be highly mobile regularly departing for lengthy spells overseas at the drop of a hat and they can often be absent for long periods for offsite training."

Javelin started out with Internet cafe installations, and evolved their Mesh offering to provide Internet feeds direct to the homes of military personnel.

LocustWorld reckons this gives them a half million end-user customers around Europe - an interesting fact to tell Intel, which is persisting with an attempt to create an IEEE standard for Mesh on the grounds that nobody has established a standard in the market yet...

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