Wireless mesh networking has broad appeal and eliminates many of the problems associated with traditional, centralized wireless solutions. A mesh network enables access points to communicate with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. This article is more than 3 years old. Wi-Fi has freed up ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. If you’ve got a mesh Wi-Fi network set up in your home, you ...

Everyone should have a mesh router by now ...

If you’ve not been hearing lots about wireless meshes lately, you soon will be. In 2001, Farpoint Group picked wireless meshes as one of the most important wireless technologies for this decade. And ...

Wireless networks have long embraced a centralized model that holds the potential for bottlenecks, latency and a single point of failure. But wireless mesh networks are emerging as an alternative to ...

Buying a whole new mesh system is a mistake: Your current router is already capable ...

Cisco and a group of other vendors are releasing mesh network products based on the 802.11 wireless LAN standard. The products are aimed mainly at creating outdoor wireless networks, such as for ...

The biggest untold tech story of this decade has been the overturning of Moore's Law in the telecom sector. Thanks to policies which re-monopolized the last mile and allowed the owners of that ...

Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) optimisation encompasses a diverse array of techniques aimed at enhancing network performance, coverage and quality of service. At its core, the field addresses the ...

It's just $500,000, but it's better than nothing. The National Science Foundation has announced a grant to the Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network (CUCWN) for help in developing open source ...