This is interesting...it's also something I have always thought about. Ever since the green revolution of Iran when the gov't shut down the networks, I had thou

This is interesting...it's also something I have always thought about. Ever since the green revolution of Iran when the gov't shut down the networks, I had thought that the solution might be some sort of large scale mesh network that can be built en-masse. The problem is, ok say we can get a mesh network using commodity routers within Iran up and working...how do the packets get out of Iran ? Do you then setup mesh nodes/connections with the surrounding countries and then route traffic through their backbones ? But what if those networks are also taken offline ? I am not being sarcastic, but this is something that I have seriously thought about and haven't found a solution. If someone has a suggestion, that would be awesome. Also, how do you build cross-Atlantic mesh networks with commodity hardware ? i.e. say the underwater fiber cables to India are cut again, like they were last year or the year before, how does this system work in that case ?