RUCA: Research on challenges in ICT infrastructure for large-scale deployment of educational laptops

This paper describes the RUCA project, the work done on its second phase and preliminary work for the third phase. RUCA is part of the UCA (“Um Computador por Aluno” - A Computer per Student) Project, and deals with the technical aspects of it (in contrast to the pedagogical aspects of deploying laptops at schools, covered by UCA). It began as a project to study the mesh network capabilities of OLPC's XO laptop, but evolved to a project with studies the challenges of installing and operating the network infrastructure needed for such a project.