Untangling The Superpeer Demo

A couple of weeks ago we featured a demo showing local meshes across the world from each other — in Bangladesh and Canada — connecting to one another using the power of a RightMesh Superpeer. Smartphones that were NOT connected to the internet were able to send messages back and forth between countries.

Magic? Nope! Just a complex networking routing protocol, otherwise known as RightMesh.

Now we are back to tell you more!

Watch the video below to see how it works, and then read on to learn the technical details.

First of all, what is a Superpeer?

A Superpeer is, basically, a special type of a peer that connects multiple distinct local meshes. The Superpeer mission is to forward data from one mesh to the other mesh and to allow devices from each mesh to communicate with each other. A Superpeer can reside in a local computer or in an AWS server.

What is a local mesh?

A local mesh is a set of devices connected together without internet. This can be done via Bluetooth, WiFi, or WiFi Direct.

For the purpose of this demo, we setup two small local meshes in two different parts of the world. One in our Bangladesh office and the other one in Canada. In the demo, we show a working Superpeer connecting the two local meshes together into one mesh.

How did we set up the demo?

What exactly happened in the demo?

In Canada, we set up a local mesh and ensured all 3 devices were connected to each other with 2 hops and able to send messages back and forth. Bangladesh also setup their own local mesh.

Once the two meshes were ready, the teams connected 1 device from each mesh to the Superpeer with internet access and, within seconds, the two phones discovered each other.

Even though the demo is short and shows only two separate small meshes connected, this just scratches the surface of the power of the Superpeer. The Superpeer gives us the ability to add multiple local meshes together and create one massive mesh. Those meshes don’t have to be from separate parts of the world, it can just be one town connected to the next one.

And this…is how RightMesh intends to connect the world!

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