[MLB-WIRELESS] Another fine mesh you've got me in to ...

[Barry Park]

Stretching broadband with meshed WiFi
By Bryan Betts
Posted: 21/05/2003 at 21:30 GMT
Mesh radio networks are definitely back in fashion. British developer BPO
Solutions claims its Meshhopper fixed-mesh routing software works with
ordinary 802.11b wireless Ethernet kit to build "WLAN microsites" able to
share a broadband connection.
The company says it has almost finished field-testing its mesh technology at
a rural site in the UK, and is moving on to set up urban microsites.
The advantage of a mesh is that it uses individual self-configuring nodes,
each of which can reroute data in a 360º sweep. So if a node disappears, or
cannot get a direct radio link to the broadband access point because it's
blocked or out of range, it doesn't matter - the network will figure out
other ways to get traffic to where it needs to be, for example bouncing it
off another node.

More at http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/30813.html



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