Are you seeing benefits from the mesh approach that you wouldn't get from backhaul/APs? Doesn't the mesh gear usually have omni-directional antennas which can be problematic in an RF polluted environment.
Greg On Jun 18, 2010, at 6:41 PM, L. Aaron Kaplan wrote: > I agree with Faisal here... > > Our experience from the freifunk style networks in Europe is that a mix of > backbone/mesh nodes > and layer 3 meshing gets the job done. > Why layer 3? Because you don't want it all to be a single layer 2 broadcast > area :) > Your spectrum is just too valuable to send every broadcast message to all > others in the network. > Combine that with BGP/OSPF/whatever backbone links which are built point to > point (or point to a few multipoints) > with high capacity and you are set. > This way you can even have layer 2 meshes interoperating with different > meshes or OSPF/BGP/IS-IS/whatever protocol > backbone networks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
