The FrogNet Living Network
Finishing the Internet's
Original Architecture.
The Internet was designed as a network of independent, autonomous systems connected through a common protocol layer. Somewhere in the last twenty years, we traded all of that for the cloud.
FrogNet is a self-forming mesh infrastructure that allows full web applications to operate across any available transport, including environments where the Internet is unavailable. It restores the original architectural principles — autonomous networks, transport independence, survivability through decentralization, intelligence at the edges — and extends them with a semantic layer that achieves 93.8% bandwidth savings by transmitting only what changed.
The architects got the design right fifty years ago. We just forgot to finish the job.
The Architecture
Four papers. One architectural narrative.
Why the cloud broke the Internet's original design. What the ARPANET architects got right. How FrogNet implements it. And the semantic layer that makes it work over a 4800-baud radio channel with 20% packet loss.
Read the papers ➜Products
Four product lines. One platform.
FrogNet Family (private family networks), FroGuardian (senior independence), Home Gardener (AI-powered agriculture), and Ham Pack (full TCP/IP over RF). Consumer products fund the platform. Platform funds enterprise.
See the products ➜Guest on The Bold Inventors Podcast
A technical, plain-language discussion of FrogNet — the Living Network — and why privacy failures on the public Internet are structural, not accidental.
John Fawcett — Founder & Architect
67-year-old programmer with decades of real-time networking experience. Boeing flight simulation (Special Achievement Award), Sierra On-Line/EA/WotC multiplayer game servers, Microsoft SCCM Linux agent, three patents. Over $500K personal R&D invested. Five production nodes running. 93.8% compression proven.
The book — FrogNet: A Living Network — is a technical origin story about building systems that refuse to lie. Read the foreword and Chapter One on this site, or get the full book on Amazon.