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= WARP: Wireless Open Access Research Platform = 

== About the Project ==
Rice University's WARP is a scalable and extensible programmable wireless platform, built from the ground up, to prototype advanced wireless networks. The [source:/ open-access WARP repository] allows exchange and sharing of new physical and network layer architectures, building a true community platform. Xilinx FPGAs are used to allow programmability of both physical and network layer protocols on a single platform, which is both deployable and observable at all layers.

Hardware is available for purchase ([http://warp.rice.edu/getting_hardware.php see details]).

== Using the Harware ==
Which of the following best describes your intended use?
      * I am interesting in physical layer research and development ([wiki:PHY])
      * I am interesting in medium access layer research ([wiki:MAC])