LANCASTER
UNIVERSITY
Computing Department
Faculty of Applied Sciences

Dear sir/madam,
The Distributed Multimedia Research Group at Lancaster University is currently heavily
involved in deploying a high performance wireless network throughout the city of Lancaster,
with the intention of providing services to local residents and businesses. We very much see
the Chiasma project proposed by Folly as one of these services.
As part of the team working toward this deployment, I can confirm that the Chiasma proposal
is of great interest to us for a number of reasons.
1) The project would act as a highly visible and interesting trial of our network. We are very
keen to work with local organizations such as Folly to obtain real-world results from trialling
novel real-world applications.
2) Such a project would place demands on the underlying network technologies which cannot
easily be foreseen. These demands may well allow us to discover other research avenues.
In summary, we strongly support the Folly's project proposal. We are prepared to provide
several thousand pounds worth of wireless networking equipment, access to the Internet and a
significant amount of technical support free of charge for the duration of the project to Folly
to make this happen. We are very much looking forward to working with Folly on this
exciting project.
Yours Sincerely,

Dr. Joe Finney
Lecturer, Lancaster University.

Dr. Nicholas Race
Research Lecturer, Lancaster University.

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