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目录 1 Introduction 2 One Number Integration 2.1 Integration Example 1: Web Address 2.2 Integration Example 2: Private Network 2.3 Integration Example 3: Personal Identification Number 2.4 Integration Example 4: Data Storage 3 Public Interface 3.1 Interface Example 1: Instant Messenger 3.2 Interface Example 2: Internet Phone 3.3 Interface Example 3: ENUM Domain 3.4 Interface Example 4: Privacy Protection 4 Multiple Pricing 4.1 Pricing Example 1: Provider Independence 4.2 Pricing Example 2: Micro Billing 4.3 Pricing Example 3: Payment Collection 4.4 Pricing Example 4: Automatic Transfer 5 Community Customisation 5.1 Customisation Example 1: Virtual Servers 5.2 Customisation Example 2: Unified Control 5.3 Customisation Example 3: Open Source 5.4 Customisation Example 4: Wireless Network

Introduction

Net2MAX公司 has been leading the world in deploying breakthrough VoIP technologies (Net2MAX 1.0) since 1997. 10 years later, when everyone else finally realised that VoIP is a good thing, we lead once again by introducing management to the internet (Net2MAX 2.0) just like we introduced voice to the internet earlier.

Net2MAX 2.0 provides superior Integration, Interface, Pricing and Customisation by building on top of Net2MAX 1.0's proven core components like OZcontact and OZvoice.

While others are still delivering isolated communication services, Net2MAX is delivering the world's first and only complete communication management platform. Let's see how long the followers will take to catch onto Management Platforms this time ...

One Number Integration

Existing communication services can only handle one or a few of the communication mediums and applications that you use daily, resulting in a need to have MULTIPLE phone numbers and internet addresses.

Net2MAX's One Number Integration turns ONE phone number provided by you into an integrated number for ALL the different communication mediums you use.

One Number Integration Comparison

There is a growing trend in the online market towards integration, for example, eBay purchased Skype, Google purchased You Tube, MSN started to message with Yahoo, but all of those "integration" does not deliver the true benefits of integration fully.

For example, despite the purchase of Skype by eBay, users still need to know and manage separately their eBay User ID, their Skype Name and also the phone numbers and email addresses of each other, making communication just as difficult as before the purchase.

With Net2MAX however, the integration is complete, for example, the e-commerce back-end is already integrated with its communication back-end, which in turn is already integrated with the user's existing phone number and email address.

One Number Integration Benefits

One Number Integration increases the functionality available to the user by enabling access to the best features from multiple providers and provide more convenience to the user through much simpler operations.

Using your EXISTING phone number as the base for everything, makes it easier for others to find out and remember your contact details as well as easier for you remember and give out yourself.

To contact you, there are no new phone numbers or web addresses for you or the public to learn or remember, Net2MAX uses the same EXISTING phone number that you and them have been known.

Integration Example 1: Web Address

A problem with existing online services is that they all of different web addresses and different user accounts. Making it is difficult to use and difficult to give out to others.

For example, after registering the phone number +61 2 90112121 with Net2MAX, ALL your web sites are now available under ONE account and ONE web site.

http://net2max.com/61290112121

For people who want to go to specific the web sites directly, individual web sites can also be reach under the SAME account and SAME domain. For example, the following services are available under ONE number for people worldwide to contact the member:

1. Email Address - mailto:61290112121@net2max.com
2. Instant Message Address (Jabber) - xmpp:61290112121@net2max.com
3. Web Chat Address - http://webchat.net2max.com/61290112121
4. Media Gallery Address - http://media.net2max.com/61290112121
5. Video Broadcast Address - http://video.net2max.com/61290112121
6. Remote Screen Sharing Address - http://screen.net2max.com/61290112121
7. White Board Address - http://whiteboard.net2max.com/61290112121
8. Current Location - http://location.net2max.com/61290112121
9. Project Manager Address - http://project.net2max.com/61290112121
10. Blog Address - http://blog.net2max.com/61290112121
11. Wiki Address - http://wiki.net2max.com/61290112121
12. Forum Address - http://forum.net2max.com/61290112121
13. Calendar Address - http://calendar.net2max.com/61290112121
14. Online Shop Address - http://exchange.net2max.com/61290112121
15. Web Phone Address - http://webphone.net2max.com/61290112121
16. SIP Phone Number - sip:61290112121@net2max.com
17. Normal Phone Number - dial 61290112121
18. Normal Fax Number - dial 61290112121
19. Worldwide Toll-Free Phone Number - dial Access Numbers then enter 61290112121
20. Worldwide Toll-Free Fax Number - dial Access Numbers then enter 61290112121
21. Worldwide SMS Number - Send message with (61290112121) to SMS Numbers
22. MSN, Skype, Yahoo, QQ, AIM, ICQ Address - Send message with (61290112121) to Instant Message Address

With One Number Integration, the single http://net2max.com/61290112121 web address should be used in most situations, but the above individual web addresses can also be used for providing fast direct "one click" access within emails, instant messages, sms, web sites etc. in specific situations.

Integration Example 2: Private Network

A problem with existing online services is that they have different applications, networks and devices:

1. Applications - like Voice over IP, Instant Message, Web Sites, Disk Sharing
2. Networks - like Dial-up, ADSL, Cable, GPRS, 3G, WiFi, WiMAX, Private (behind NAT or firewall)
3. Devices - like Mobiles, PDAs, Home PC, Wok PC, Macs, Linux

They use different encryption, routing and identification process, making it impossible to interoperate with each other.

1. Encryption problem - different applications using no or different encryption
2. Routing problem - different applications using different IP ports
3. Identification problem - different computers uses different IP addresses

Net2MAX adds a web based private network interface into your device, providing a SINGLE IP address, over a SINGLE IP port, using a transparent encryption that will work with ANY online service. This allows different online services to go through encrypted, with certificate based identification, on a single IP address and single port.

As can be seen below, the member simply click on "Start Private Network" on the web page and an extra LAN card (virtual) is created to access the private network.

The private network is based on the SSL standard and works across devices like Windows XP, Linux, OS X and even Windows Mobile.

Private Network is great for handling insecure online services like SIP based VoIP - by enabling easy encryption of voice calls, easy transmission through firewalls (via web browsers ports like https 443).

Virtual Private Networks are traditionally restricted to the big business, lack applications and have been expensive and difficult to use. Net2MAX integrates the applications (like remote drive and VoIP) as well as provide any one (not just big business) with a low cost web based easy to use interface - one click and it is done.

With One Number Integration, different online services can be integrated into a single well managed certificate based data stream that functions over different IP networks.

Integration Example 3: Personal Identification Number

A problem with existing online services is that they rely on Personal Identification Numbers (PINs) or passwords that are static. Once people discovered what they are is (for example, secret download of keyboard logging software to your computer or recording the DTMF tones your phone make while doing online banking), they can make use of them immediately.

Using a single password is thus very dangerous since people who stole one password can access everything. However having different online services with different PINs and passwords is very difficult to remember, insecure to write down and tedious to encrypt.

Net2MAX introduces an alternative patent protected Disposable PIN that changes every time so even if people have stolen one PIN, it is useless a sit cannot be used again.

Disposable PIN provides integrated authentication across networks, currently it has been deployed on Voice (on our access numbers worldwide), Text (on our text addresses worldwide) and on our web site http://net2max.com/login

Unlike the login pages of other online services, Net2MAX actually allows the password to be visible, this is because even if other people see it - they cannot use it. Since it is integrated across all services, the SAME Disposable PIN can be used over SMSs, Instant Messages, Emails, Phones, IVRs etc. without worry.

Integration Example 4: Data Storage

A problem with other services is that they force the users to have different data storages on device devices for different applications.

Net2MAX enables the sharing of application data easily, for example: Files, Calendars, Notes, Tasks and Contacts via the Web Browser.

However, having web access ONLY is not enough. Mobile devices can now be connected to the Web all the time (GPRS) and at high speeds (3G) but what about the battery? Constant connection drains the battery within a few hours, thus synchronisation still have an important role to play.

Net2MAX supports synchronisation of those SAME web based application data across Devices (Apple iPod, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Palm), Computers (MS Outlook, Thunderbird, Evolution, LDAP, MS Exchange, Lotus Domino) and Phones (Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola).

Shared Disk

The member's network drive is available online through the web browser as well as directly on the computer desk-top through standard disk protocols like WebDAV and SMB (CIFS).

For WebDAV, the versioning of files is also supported.

Shared Calendar

The member's calendars (events, meetings) are available online through the web browser as well offline through synchronisation.

Besides the calendar, the member's tasks (to dos, appointments) are available online through the web browser as well offline through synchronisation.

Shared Contacts

The member's contacts (phone numbers, email addresses) are available online through the web browser as well offline through synchronisation.

Public Interface

Existing online services have no concept nor provisions for handling the communication with the public (non-members). They assume (or hope) that everyone on earth is going to be their customers, thus they have only defined a single user interface - for its members only.

Instead of only allowing people who are registered with us, Net2MAX's Public Interface allows the public (non-members) to make use of Net2MAX's online facilities to contact you immediately without registration or account of any sort.

Public Interface Comparison

A problem with services like MSN, Yahoo, QQ, Google Talk etc. is that people on BOTH ends need to registered with them in order for them to communicate. This restricts their growth and limits the range of communications of their members.

Net2MAX's Public Interface solves this by expanding the reach of its members BEYOND its members. Public Interface provides a wider reach to the user by enabling access to the people who are non-members as well as members. It also improved security for the member by centralising authentication across multiple online applications.

Net2MAX has a separate Public Interface which members can control who has access to what type of communications with the member under what situations. Whether it is voice, image, text or complex online applications, the member can create individual communication environments for people contacting the member.

With Net2MAX there is no need to migrate away from an online service that a person is happy with and there is no lock down to communicating with members of the same network, members can communicate with public on any network they like. For example, Net2MAX members can receive text messages from any users on large numbers of different networks, like SMS, MSN, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, QQ and Skype ... WITHOUT being a member of any of those networks!

Net2MAX provides a special communication environment for the public to perform traditional communications that used to require registering and downloading of software - like internet phone calls (VoIP), instant messaging (IM) and desktop sharing etc. - now all those can be done without any special software or registration.

Public Interface Benefits

Although registering with Net2MAX is free and takes only a few seconds, NOT everyone in the world would like to registered their phone number with Net2MAX just to communicate with a member.

The public can use any of the communication services listed in the One Number Integration Demonstration above to contact the member with the phone umber 61290112121, there is:

1. No need to supply personal information
2. No need to wait for activation
3. No need to apply for any account
4. No need to install any software
5. No need to purchase any hardware
6. No need to configure any settings
7. No need to pay any fee
8. No need to read any advertisement
9. No need to take any training
10. No need to belong to any group

Interface Example 1: Instant Messenger

Other Instant Messenger networks shut out the public (non-members) from instant messaging with their members. Net2MAX's instant messaging feature not only handles the most popular instant messengers (MSN, Yahoo, Gtalk, ICQ, Skype, Jabber, QQ shown below), but also allow ANYONE on the web to instant message the member through the SAME integrated interface!

Image:Net2MAX IM.png Member Unified Instant Message Client (Windows XP)

There is NO need for the public to download any software, NO need to login and NO need to join any network. The public just text chat to the member from the web page and the member can chat with them just like they are any other "normal" instant message user.

Image:Web Chat.png Public Web Based Text Chat

Interface Example 2: Internet Phone

Other Voice over IP networks shut out the public (non-members) from making voice calls to their members. Net2MAX's Internet Phone feature allows the member to speak to the public using the most popular VoIP protocols by allowing the public to use THEIR OWN VoIP numbers or addresses (SIP, Skype, MSN, Yahoo, Gtalk as shown below) by simply typing it into the web page.

If the public does NOT have an existing VoIP account of any sort then they can still make voice call to the member. They just click on the web page and a public web phone will open up a new browser window for the public to talk to the member instantly.

Interface Example 3: ENUM Domain

ENUM is useful in certain situations for looking up a person's preferred online service by their phone number. However ITU's official ENUM domain e164.arpa is highly restrictive and limited.

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Net2MAX's e164.name ENUM domain provides a complementary database for the public.

Public Access

Net2MAX's e164.name ENUM domain allows free and open READ access by anyone at anytime and also allow people who register their phone numbers with Net2MAX for free WRITE access to their own entries.

Direct Access

Besides using the DNS based ENUM protocol, Net2MAX allows direct access to online services using their EXISTING standard method directly (for example, http, smtp, xmpp, sip etc.). Thus enabling even people without ENUM access to perform phone number based online transactions.

Service Delivery

All other alternatives to e164.arpa are look-up only service lacks a service delivery back-end.

For example, e164.org can return Skype address for a phone number, however it provides NO way of actually talking to Skype, so people who get the skype address returned will not know what to do with it!

Net2MAX's own ENUM domain e164.name on the other hand HAS a service delivery back-end to complete the lookup operation, so actual phone calls made to Net2MAX number CAN be passed onto Skype transparently and immediately.

Interface Example 4: Privacy Protection

The unprecedented ease of access introduced by One Number Integration and Public Interface has to be balanced by unprecedented privacy protection to the member and the public.

Net2MAX prevents direct access to the member by filtering out all the different voice, text and image communications from the public to the 1CC Number and pass the proper communications to the member's private Account Number.

Online Identity Protection

Besides performing the filtering task, Net2MAX also protects you by allowing you to either change or not change your WHOLE public indentity at any time you wish.

You can keep your 1CC Number unchanged for life (so people do NOT have to learn new phone numbers or email addresses as you change your service providers).

You can change your 1CC Number within a few minutes (so you can change your identity as circumatances changes WITHOUT changing your service providers).

Web Access Protection

In the demonstration above, 61290112121 has given access to everyone, but the Public Interface allows the member to restrict public access to http://net2max.com/61290112121 by:

1. Anyone (No protection)
2. Anyone who can enter numbers displayed (Captcha protection)
3. All Net2MAX Members (Password protection)
4. Net2MAX Members in the same community(Password protection)
5. Only Net2MAX Members specified by member(Password protection)

Phone Access Protection

Instead of using the member's OWN phone number (like 61290112121 above) for everything, the member have a choice of using alternative phone numbers as their One Number - members can use virtual phone numbers that does not exist (like 00123456789) or select from Net2MAX's extensive list of real phone numbers worldwide (like 612123456789).

Advertisement Protection

Some online services fund their operation by advertisements, but not every one wants to view advertisements. Net2MAX's Public Interface does NOT have any advertisements by default, by the members are given the control of whether to allow 3rd party advertisement from other members and the freedom to put advertisements (their own or 3rd party advertisements) on to their own phone number's web sites, emails, sms etc.

Multiple Pricing

Existing communication services force their users to purchase the WHOLE communication path from them end to end.

Net2MAX allows its members to use anyone on the market (including Net2MAX's competitors) for any PART of the communication path, thus allowing our members to access the best price/performance communications at anytime.

Multiple Pricing Comparison

The low barrier of entry into online services means that a large number of new service providers will be created every month. All having different features, prices, quality and reliablity.

For example, there are a lot of different VoIP (internet phone) services providing very competitive phone call rates to different countries. To take advantage of the best rates, quality and features from ALL of them, you can define your OWN mix of service providers to your own mix of destinations.

You can either let Net2MAX automatically select different providers based predefined rules you set or you can select different providers at the time of making the call by putting in extra prefix in front of the phone number to dial.

Multiple Pricing Benefits

1. lower costs - access to the best pricing from multiple providers
2. reduced risks - easily move between providers for different functions

Pricing Example 1: Provider Independence

For online services, a "good" price means low cost, high quality and many features. A cheaper service does NOT always have to mean poor quality or lack of features ... however in some cases they do ... and that's when Multiple Pricing can help.

Multiple Pricing allows you to select which pricing to use for which call either at the time of call by entering prefix 123 in front of the phone number 61290112121 you dial or before hand by predefining a set of phone number rules on the web (if calling 61290112121 using network.

This way, depending on your needs you can access

1. extra features (like to show your caller id)
2. better quality (like when calling your boss)
3. cheaper prices (like when making long calls)

at any time, flexibly and automatically.

Pricing Example 2: Micro Billing

The unprecedented access to different pricing introduced by Provider Independence has to be balanced by unprecedented ease of use for the member.

Although Multiple Pricing allows members to create a list of pricing that delivers the best quality, rates and features, NOT everyone in the world would like to search for, apply for and maintain a list of accounts for the best prices.

Net2MAX allows others to do the searching, maintaining for you. Net2MAX uniquely allows members to SHARE they phone accounts with each other easily and without risk.

Members who share their pricing can make it free (like a company or a family let its members to use its accounts) or they can choose to charge other members (to make money from their effort or to just to recover costs).

The members can set prices outside phone calls, they can charge other members for their own products and services as well. They can use Net2MAX mature (10 years old) micro-billing platform's ability to bill down to the cent to bill other members for their own services.

Pricing Example 3: Payment Collection

Net2MAX backs up the its micro billing system with comprehensive and low cost payment collection service for its members.

For example, currently in Australia:

1. Online Transfer (Internet and Phone) from debit or credit accounts in all major Australia banks and financial institutions.
2. Over Counter (mainly CASH but also cheque and credit cards) from thousands of Australia Post offices and agents around Australia.
3. Credit Card (Visa and Master) with one of the lowest online credit card merchant fee in the world.

Ability to collect CASH is very important since it opens up the e-commerce world to large number of people (like teenagers) who does have credit cards.

Pricing Example 4: Automatic Transfer

A problem with most telecommunication services is the the trade-off between the secuirty of prepaid and the convenience of postpaid services. A automatic recharge prepaid account will help in most situations.

Net2MAX is one of the first in the world to provide automatic recharge of prepaid phone credits back in 1997, where prepaid phone card users can set a threshold value on the web so when their balance is below that value more money will be transferred from their credit or bank accounts.

Net2MAX also offers automatic transfer between members, so a member (say the boss of the company or the head of a family) can control the how much to transfer into some other members' account balances should their accounts fall below certain values.

Community Customisation

Universal Customisation Comparison
Most phone services allow you change the limited CONTENT within their services (e.g. recording your own voice greetings) but only Net2MAX allows you to change the actual STRUCTURE (e.g. how to handle each call) as well.

Universal Customisation purposefully expose many more platform configuration setting to you through easy to use web interface and convenient text messaging.

It allows rapid responses to incoming communications without needing human intervention. Web control enables fast changing of predefined automate responses from anywhere.

Universal Customisation allows you to perform simple tasks like managing all your passwords in one place to complex task controlling how much to charge caller when they call you after hours.

There is no need for you to pay for time consuming and expensive programming services in order to automate your operations. Without programmers, there is no confusion about specifications and no communication errors.

Universal Customisation Benefits

1. better control
2. higher accuracy
3. faster responses

Customisation Example 1: Virtual Servers

Unlike other customisations, which focus on simple application level configurations, Net2MAX's Community Customisation allows you to customise the actual servers you use! Having your own servers allows you to achieve better privacy, security, functionality and performance.

Best of Both Worlds

Traditional architectures belong to one of the two extremes, either hosted applications where everything is centralised or peer-to-peer applications where everything is decentralised. Either way, the user (that's you) does NOT have any control.

Net2MAX has an unique Community Server architecture that takes advantage of the latest development in Virtual Server technologies, allowing the Net2MAX Community to MANAGE what is centralised and what is decentralised themselves so the Community Platforms can be deployed at the most appropriate level to minimise cost yet maximise performance.

Unlimited Flexibility

The Net2MAX Community Servers can perform either Server_Import or Server_Access operations. With Virtual Servers inside, the Community Server can be any thing in the Information and Communication Technology world. It can be wireless base station, it can be a web server, it can be PABX, it can be a hard disk, it can be a telephone exchange, it can be a video broadcaster, it can be an internet router.

There is no difference between a computing and communications, every thing is software based, running inside its own Virtual Server on same low cost commodity PCs. Capacity and performance can be increase or decreased easily by moving Virtual Servers to different PCs in same or different location.

People who cannot afford hardware can use someone's Community Server, people who can afford hardware can get their own. People with network infrastructure can make maximum use of it and people out network infrastructure can build their own cheaply.

Your Data You Decide

Net2MAX not only runs its own applications on the Community Server as virtual servers (so they can be imported or accessed as required), but it also allows communities and individual members to run THEIR applications as Virtual Servers inside the same Community Server - easily, securely and at low costs.

You can probably trust some external organisations (e.g. Telco, Hotmail or Paypal or Google) to handle your information for you but can you trust their staff? Do you really want your contact lists, your locations exposed ? Now with Net2MAX Virtual Servers, you can have your data stored where YOU want.

Customisation Example 2: Unified Control

Existing communication services support two different ways of customisation to their services by two different types of people:

1. Limited User Customisation for Customers
2. Complex Application Programmic Interfaces (APIs) for Programmers

User customisation do not have enough power yet APIs is too complex to use. Worse still, there are DIFFERENT user customisation and APIs for different services - making customisation a very inefficient process.

Net2MAX's Community Customisation allows non-technical people to customise communication services extensively for their own needs yet without any programming.

The SAME Community Customisation can be used by BOTH end-users to change their own platform and by Net2MAX Communities to create new platforms for others. The SAME Universal Customisation works across multiple communication services.

The majority of net2MAX can be configured on the web using simple point and click. For example, normally clicking on the following link will make a phone call to 61290112121 by loading the Java web phone on your computer.

http://webphone.net2max.com/61290112121

If you already have a VoIP phone (hardware or software) you might not want to use the Java web phone. In those case, you simply need to enter your phone number on the web page and instead of making the call to 61290112121 from your java web phone, a call will be made from your OWN VoIP to 61290112121 instead.

In some cases, you need to customise certain features on the run. Net2MAX allows configuration from multiple channels. For example, you can configure your Web PABX from

1. web
2. phone
3. SMS
4. instant message
5. database

all without programming.

Access to your Web PABX can be controlled by caller number, called number, timeof call, caller identity etc. Calls can be filtered, transferred and database records can be retrieved and read out all WITHOUT the need for programmers.

Customisation Example 3: Open Source

Customisation Example 4: Wireless Network

Traditionally there is not much to customise on the network side (whether it is for mobile voice or broadband Internet access), with Net2MAX however it is possible to customise the network side as well. Net2MAX allow the easy creation of private wireless networks that are INDEPENDENT of the carriers or network operators.

Network Architecture

The Net2MAX Private Wireless (NPW) network is build by the members themselves, each of them contributing to part of the wireless infrastructure by plugging low-cost commodity Wi-Fi radio cards into their Community Servers and running NPW software on those Community Server.

The area covered by the radios in a Community Server is called a "cell". Any Wi-Fi device within a cell can communicate with each other as well as with the outside world through the Community Server.

A NPW network is formed when there are two or more overlapping cells. Cells that are out-of-range with each other can now communicate with each other through cells in the middle. As shown below, Cell 1 does not have the range to reach Cell 5 but it can go through Cells 2, 3 and 4 which provide an indirect path between Cell 1 and 5.

NPW has a similar architecture to the MIT Roofnet where people put antennas on their roof-tops to form their own private wireless network, but NPW is designed for our own set of requirements:

1. Very lower cost
2. Runs on non-dedicated commodity PCs (with other virtual servers)
3. Air interface use commodity wireless hardware
4. Can use any mobile routing as required (proactive, reactive, hybrid)
5. Ability to be a Client AND a Mesh AND a Repeater AND an Access Point at the same time
6. Use unlicensed radio spectrum
7. Use different antenna types (high/low gain)
8. Ability to have cells going up and down (self-healing network)
9. Multiple radio design (at least 2 radios per node)
10. Use multiple Internet connections (ADSL, VSAT, Cable, 3G, WiMAX)
11. Indoor deployments (as well as outdoor)
12. Allow mobile stations (users and community servers can move)

Currently the Net2MAX Private Wireless (NPW) is based on 802.11 but it can be based on any cheap commodity wireless networking technology. Note it is NOT designed as a "last-mile" solution, although with 803.11n speeds going above 200Mbit/s on only 2 streams, it can be a complement or an alternative to WiMAX, VDSL2 and FTTP in some cases.

Sharing Networks

Net2MAX Private Wireless (NPW) is ideal for sharing of external networks within the private wireless network. As shown below, there are 9 community servers running NPW software forming a NPW network (we call the area covered by the radio of each of these community server is called a "cell") and 4 of these cells have connection to external networks of some sort.

Those wireless cells with external network connections (internet, phone, TV) can share those networks with other cells within the same network easily and privately - without paying any data traffic charges.

Since NPW is self-healing with redundant paths, the sharing of external networks can be made highly reliable by having more than one cell within the network with connection to the same external network (e.g. 2 or 3 cells within the same NPW sharing their Broadband Internet).

Sharing Devices

Net2MAX Private Wireless (NPW) can also be used for sharing of internal devices within each cell. As shown below, there are 9 community servers running NPW software forming a NPW network (we call the area covered by the radio of each of these community server is called a "cell") and 4 of these cells have connection to internal devices of some sort.

Some wireless cells might have some devices that they want to share (bluetooth, usb, firewire, dect etc.). Those devices can be shared within the network with other cells easily and privately - without paying any data traffic charges.

Integrated Computing and Communications

Besides actual hardware costs, having computing and communications inside one Community Server, save data traffic since a lot of data accesses (like disks or group calendar) can be served straight from the same server without needing to go outside. This improves both performance and security.

NPW runs the backbone wireless network on one or more radios and have a separate set of radios for the client network. This allow continuous high performance as more Virtual Servers are added into the Community Servers and as the NPW network expands (enabling it to grow from 2 neighbours to a village).