On 6/10/07, Roshan wrote:
> So for a mesh
> network 1-1.2Mbps is pretty good.
But would this be the same, when we scale?
I'm not sure. I'm no expert at this but I can tell you one thing. Mesh
networks are _not_ meant for speed. They're meant for high fault
tolerance ( due to their inherent redundant nature ).
For a mesh network to be really successful, we'll need to see if there
are better ( optimized? ) protocols for these networks. Protocols have
a good impact on the throughput.
Actually, it is a wireless *mesh* network. A wired
mesh network would be fairly /'messed'/ but a wireless
mesh doesn't appear to be, but it should offer
*similar* capabilities in terms of performance.
How is wireless mesh network less messier than a wired mesh network?
No. Wireless networks at the moment /cannot/ compete with wired
networks on the performance / throughput front. Why? If you study how
wired and wireless networks behave you'll understand. Basic problem of
wireless networks being that the signals travel through an unbounded
medium, signal losses are tremendous, collisions, limited spectrum, so
on and so forth...
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