Editing Free network architecture (section)

=== Layer 2 – FreedomLink ===

[[FreedomLink|FreedomLinks]], first and foremost, are BGP speakers – they peer directly with other Autonomous Systems of the Internet. FreedomLinks will be situated initially in colocation facilities, and eventually in network meet-me rooms. In addition to serving as primary distribution points for Free Network material connectivity across an entire region, they serve as gateways for logical connections via FreedomTunnel. FreedomLinks will have substantial computational capacity, be multi-homed, and peered via fiber-optics. FreedomLinks are the focal point of the Layer 2, regional meshes – as such, they are intended to serve communities of 25,000-75,000. We estimate that there will eventually be somewhere on the order of 1,000 FreedomLinks in the continental United States, though we are going to start with three.