LAS VEGAS – You can’t accuse companies of not taking innovative leaps at tghe Consumer Electroncis Show and Peep Wireless wins our award for sheer originality, with its claims it can create ad hoc P2P (peer to peer) networks between mobile devices with its mobile-phone mesh networking technology.
What that means is that instead of using cell towers to transmit voice or data, users’ phones themselves would take on the role of transmitters and repeaters, sending signals short distances to one another, or hopping a signal across multiple devices. In other words, the devices themselves would become the infrastructure necessary to carry out a short distance call or send data, by hitching a ride on another phone’s wireless connection to connect one phone to the next.
The company describes this process as turning mobile devices into “client/server viral transmitter/receivers.”
“Anything with ROM or RAM on it and a bus can use our system,” a company representative said.
“Any game box, any car with programmable Bluetooth, any PC in a caf
@CES: Peep Wireless suggests P2P phone networks
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