About Us
Susper GbR builds wireless communication channels for companies, local governments, educational institutions and communities. Susper is a company based on a network of developers, consultants, technicians and engineers, who have been building open mesh networks on different continents for many years.
We set up local wireless networks based on open source software tools, open wifi standards and open mesh technology. We provide training to enable the maintenance, support and extension of the mesh network on a local level. We show customers how businesses can profit and develop new income models with local mesh networks.
WHERE WE COME FROM
We come from all over the world, with international backgrounds and different areas of expertise. The foundations of Susper lie in Germany, with people building wireless mesh networks here for many years in cities like Berlin, Leipzig, Weimar, Rostock and Hamburg. Susper was founded by some of the most active people in the German Freifunk free wireless community. As a company organized as a network of trusted partners worldwide Susper is a specialized global company connected through its own communication channels and the internet.
WHO WE ARE
We are everyday users of collaborative technologies and we have a passion for free and open source technologies. We are multilingual, continuously learn languages and about the cultures of the world. We engage with who and in what we believe in and we are working passionately for and with our customers and partners. At Susper, we are proud to say, we stand behind the people and businesses we work for and we care for them even when we are not serving them. We are curious about new ideas and alternative approaches and we support people taking these ideas into reality. We are working in networks rather than hierarchies. We are a global group working as equal partners to a mutual benefit. We are aiming to minimize the environmental damage of our actions. We are a company not tied to earnings pressures of stock holders. We are dedicated to longterm success and the sustainability of our work.
OPEN ACCESS APPROACH
We pursue an open access approach to exchanging ideas and results with engaged communities and the wider public. We are publishing findings of our ongoing research activities in reports and papers in online and offline ressources such as the Open Source Yearbook (www.opensourcejahrbuch.de). We have deep-rooted relations to free and open source communities such as: Freifunk (www.freifunk.net), OpenWRT (www.openwrt.org), OW2 Consortium (www.ow2.org), Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org), Wikimedia (www.wikimedia.de), SuMa (www.suma-ev.org), FSF Europe (www.fsfeurope.org), local GNU/Linux Usergroups (www.linux.org/groups/) and many more.
ESTABLISHED COOPERATIVE EXCHANGE
We are in constant exchange with our partners. Susper has well-established contacts to key players, developers, scientific institutions, communities and businesses in the global open wireless sector such as:
Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany, www.fokus.fraunhofer.de
Freifunk, Germany, www.freifunk.net
CUWIN, US, www.cuwireless.net
France Wireless, www.wireless-fr.org
Guifi.net, Spain, www.guifi.net
Ninux.org, Italy, www.ninux.org
