Recently, mesh networking and blockchain are two of the hottest technologies
in the telecommunications industry. Combining both can reformulate internet
access and make connecting to the Internet not only easy, but affordable too.
Hyperledger Fabric (HLF) is a blockchain framework implementation and one of
the Hyperledger projects hosted by The Linux Foundation. We evaluate HLF in a
real production mesh network and in the laboratory, quantify its performance,
bottlenecks and limitations of the current implementation. We identify the
opportunities for improvement to serve the needs of wireless mesh access
networks. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first HLF deployment made
in a production wireless mesh network