Really depends on what you are trying to accomplish......
e.g. There are a number of large mesh networks (or mess-networks)
using Meraki / Open Mesh etc...
(in these cases, the Mesh is used for being able to provide access to
end users, while the Internet Connection is feed at multiple
points....via separate connections... needless to say quality and speed
of the connections is not a major requirement ... best effort services
... but resiliency and self configuration is the goal..)
:)
Faisal Imtiaz
Snappy Internet& Telecom
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On 6/18/2010 7:21 PM, Greg Ihnen wrote:
> 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.
>>
>
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