It began with WiFi and Bluetooth Tethering: one mobile device wirelessly sharing its data connection with others. Now, we are blooming into a Mobile Mesh Network of many interconnected devices pooling their bandwidth for mutual benefit.
Open Garden wirelessly interconnects many smart devices into an intelligent network. A network capable of opportunistic local connections and pathways offering improved bandwidth and coverage while reducing transmission power.
Such a mobile mesh network, in its highly adaptive and self-optimizing capacities is evolving wireless networking into a rich, vibrant garden of information. An Open Garden.
Our users are not just power consumers, but students sharing knowledge with classmates, workers routing vital access to fellow employees, and if the need arises, sources of a potential lifeline to information.
In global regions with underdeveloped infrastructure or restrictions on information, mobile mesh tethering may be the primary and often only source of internet access to individuals whose need for its empowerment is greatest.
Simply put, Open Garden provides a valuable service for those with existing internet access and an invaluable necessity for those without.
Such a paradigm shift in the network topology is expected to be met with hesitation. Contractual concerns have been raised about mobile tethering, but it can only utilize the bandwidth which subscribers pay for and are allotted. Nothing is taken from the network operators. Still there is concern that users will get better deals on their unlimited data plans and increase network operation costs.
And, here too mobile meshing is the answer: by utilizing the WiFi and Bluetooth capacities of mobile and laptop devices to integrate various wireless and hard access points, a mobile mesh network can route data opportunistically through the right assets at the right time. Thus Open Garden can in fact reduce network congestion and generate fresh value every time it leverages the resources of multiple networks to offload traffic from an overburdened access route to an underutilized one.
Network performance is optimized for subscribers and providers alike. Subscribers will simply experience better coverage and more bandwidth, and will be increasingly satisfied with their service provider of choice. Providers in turn will see network congestion reduced and new opportunities for revenue. Mobile mesh networks cannot replace service providers, they can only make them better.
Open Garden is an idea whose time has come. It is a natural evolution of wireless networking from an unwieldy and disarrayed mass into an adaptive and self-organizing ecology. That which is efficient, grows, and the Mobile Mesh Network is forming…
The tsunami of data traffic is swamping all cell networks. 
