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Hmm, I don't get it.

Looks like a way to build your own networks with whatever physical layer you want with a goal of avoiding 3rd parties that may monitor traffic.

But what problem is it actually solving? If you can make your own devices and setup your own physical network, this doesn't seem like it adds value over existing approaches, like using encrypted network tunnels.

The video shows someone in a far future, automated house who watches a rocket put a satellite into space. Huh?

The homepage could probably use some work.



For me, this page helped it click: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON/blob/master/specification/PJO...

If you are an engineer looking to connect devices you built together, this is a cool protocol to consider.

Some examples of projects people have built would be helpful to showcase and help show which problems this solves.


It doesn't really have enough throughput to be an alternative to things like ethernet or wifi. It's intended for hooking low-powered embedded devices together, think of it as an alternative to i2c or canbus, not ethernet.


I think the idea is that it is a successor to other networking protocols, without "baggage" and various (in the author's opinion) other missteps that make our existing networking stack a bit bloated / inefficient.


CANBUS is an example of that.




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