Claim: BBN Technologies, an American research and development company, based next to Fresh Pond in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, developed eight of the world's first mobile ad-hoc networks, two of which were sponsored by ARPA.
Evidence: BBN Technologies (originally Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.) is an American research and development company, based next to Fresh Pond in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Mobile ad-hoc networks PRNET First mobile ad hoc network, sponsored by ARPA. SURAN Follow-on to PRNET experiments, also sponsored by ARPA. Mobile Subscriber Equipment (MSE) Tactical Internet for the US Army Iris Digital Communications System Tactical voice + data Internet for the Canadian Army Near-term digital radio (NTDR) First fielded mobile ad-hoc network High-capacity data radio (HCDR) NTDR version for the British Army Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Wideband Networking Waveform Wireless Network after Next (WNaN) Experimental tactical ad-hoc network, sponsored by DARPA BBN also created a series of mobile ad hoc networks starting in the 1970s with DARPA's experimental PRNET and SURAN systems. Later BBN efforts included the networking portions of the Near-term digital radio (NTDR) and High-capacity data radio (HCDR), the Wideband Networking Software in the Joint Tactical Radio System and the Wireless Network after Next (WNaN). It also created the networking portions of the US Army's Mobile Subscriber Equipment (MSE) and Canada's Iris Digital Communications System.