mesh networking access points
Photos: Wi-fi gets ice cool on the slopes
Photo The network consists of five Proxim AP4000MR wi-fi mesh access points, backed up with networking equipment, to cover the whole complex. Stuart Wright, head of IT at... [05 Feb 2008]
On the Scalability of Hierarchical Hybrid Wireless Networks
White Paper The network under consideration, which arises in mesh networking scenarios such as 802.11s, aims to achieve better capacity than ad hoc networks without infrastructure support, and also reduces the... [23 Aug 2007]
Thames becomes giant wi-fi hotspot
News The Thames Online service uses mesh networking technology across 100 access points, allowing users to roam along that stretch of the river without any interruption to... [29 Mar 2007]
Radioactive: Today a jam, tomorrow the open road?
Comment Because the range of a wi-fi link is limited to a few hundred meters, every vehicle also serves as a router, allowing messages to be sent via a multi-hop process to vehicles farther away, otherwise known as mesh... [21 Jun 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Wireless mesh networking
Cheat Sheet A mesh network is essentially a series of nodes - wireless access points typically mesh routers but also laptops, PDAs and the like - which route data to each other.... [24 Feb 2006]
Cisco says hi to citywide Wi-Fi
News The new access points will use "mesh" technology to communicate with each other and find the best path for traffic travelling through the wireless network. Cisco has developed a new... [16 Nov 2005]
Preston City Council IT chief Peter Ryder
Comment We're putting hotspots in and doing Wi-Fi but there's mesh networking out there and WiMax, and as technologies start to converge we may have to think again and do something subtly different. I think... [25 Aug 2005]
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