Last week, I ran a panel with @dave_andersen and Cody Cutler covering the history of the Flux Research Group at the #UofU and testbeds like #Emulab, #CloudLab, and #PowderWireless . The video is now up: https://www.youtube.com/live/LUFp6sjKbkE?feature=share&t=15360

(This is a particular timestamp in a video that covers the whole day of talks about the 50-year history of the Kahlert School of Computing and by various alumni.)

Yesterday we took a group of folks from industry, government and the press on a tour of some of the #PowderWireless infrastructure.

This is one of five cell-like towers we own on the #UofU campus. (This one is on Wasatch Drive near the roundabout, for those familiar with the area.) These (plus one more on a building) are placed so that they cover one of our campus bus routes; the buses have end-user-type devices on them that can connect to these towers.

The cabinet at the bottom hosts a collection of software-defined radios that #wireless #research folks use to build their own customized #5G networks - or, because they are #SDR, really, anything, including #spectrum monitors, #LoRA networks, channel sounding, etc.

There is some compute available right there roadside, plus these are connected by fiber to some big datacenters nearby including #Emulab and #CloudLab.

https://powderwireless.net/dense