Our R&D team is presently working mainly on the following projects:

The AirJaldi “WISP-in-a-box” Network Management and Support System
This system, specifically designed and developed for rural Wireless ISPs, is made of four integrated parts:

•    Bandwidth Maximizer - a monitoring, alerting, graphing, trending and availability maximizing tool. This tool enables network operators to optimize the use of their purchased bandwidth, which tend to be very high in developing countries.
Services: Upstream provider QoS (Quality of Service) prioritization; Load balancing & policy based routing based on administrative weights; Local content caching and; advanced monitoring of peer’s performance degradation, routing problems and packet loss.
AirJaldi received a grant from ISIF to further develop this component. The AirJaldi Bandwidth Maximizer (BwM) was released in August 2010 . 

•    SLA (Service Level Agreement)-based AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting) and QoS policy enforcement
Services: Traffic Shaping; user QoS prioritization, users’ authentication/authorization; service plans & SLA management; customer/user traffic accounting

•    Business Support System
Services: Customer service support system; trouble ticketing; customer billing; automatic voice attendant.

The AirJaldi R&D team is presently deployment Freeside as the CRM of choice. 

•    Network Services
Services: Email; spam filtering; virus filtering; Community portals; VoIP, local content hosting.

Power systems:
Finding solutions for the problematic power systems in rural areas is one of the main challenges of our team, which is currently focusing on four sub-projects:
•    Robust, low-cost mains-powered charger, immune to power surges –the common spikes and power fluctuations of rural networks are a challenge to standard power supplies that tend to burn easily or require expensive protection systems. The division focuses on developing cheap, locally-produced alternatives.

•    Miniature battery status reporting interface – capable of constantly reporting on the status of the battery (current voltage, charge and discharge) thereby saving the need for expensive checkup rounds and alerting network operators on potential problems and allowing them to solve the problem in a timely manner.

•    Advanced and robust solar charger – nodes that are supported by solar chargers are located in isolated places not reached by the electricity grid. The division is focusing on identifying and developing chargers capable of reporting the status of the solar charging system and thereby enable addressing problems long before these impact the network.

Wireless nodes
Identification and adaptation of best-of-bread, interoperable, and centrally managed set of wireless units to be used in base stations, relay stations, long distance backhaul link and as hotspots.