Mesh Networking: Examples

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<h1>Mesh Networking: Examples</h1><strong> Author: <a href='http://www.articleseen.com/profile_Johnny Diaz.aspx'>Johnny Diaz</a></strong><br /><p>The following are some examples of mesh networking, a type of networking where each node should not only capture and disseminate its own data, but also serve as a relay for other nodes; it must collaborate to propagate the data in the network. In early 2007, the US-based firm Meraki, a cloud networking company that provides hardware and software for building large scale wired and wireless networks, launched a mini wireless mesh router, an example of a wireless mesh network on a claimed speed of up to 50 megabits per second. The 802.11 radio within the Meraki Mini has been optimized for long-distance, providing coverage 250 m, an example of a single-radio mesh network being used within a community as opposed to multi-radio long range mesh networks like BelAir or MeshDynamics, providing multifunctional infrastructure. The Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, an accredited research university operated by the United States Navy, demonstrated this technology for border security. Aerial camera are aloft by balloons in a pilot system. It relays real-time high resolution video to ground personnel via a mesh network. An MIT Media Lab (laboratory of MIT School of Architecture and Planning) project has developed the One Laptop per Child (OLPC project by the Miami-based One laptop per child Association, OLPCA, and the Cambridge-based OLPC Foundation, OLPCF) XO-1 laptop, previously known as the $100 Laptop, Children’s Machine, and 2B1, an inexpensive subnotebook computer for children in developing countries around the world to provide them with access to knowledge and opportunities to “explore, experiment, and express themselves” (constructionist learning),” which uses mesh networking, based on the IEEE 802.11s standard, to create a robust and inexpensive infrastructure. The instantaneous connections made by the laptops are claimed by the project to minimize the need for an external infrastructure, like the Internet to reach all places, because a connected node may share the connection with nodes nearby. A similar one was implemented by Greenpacket with its application, called SONbuddy. On the 3rd of June 2006, mesh networking was used at the Strawberry Fair, a local festival of music, entertainment, arts and crafts held in Cambridge, UK (England) since 1974, to run mobile television, radio and Internet services to an estimated 80,000 people. The Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network (CUWiN) project, a special project of the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center (UCIMC), is developing mesh networking software based on open source implementations of the Hazy-Sighted Link Routing Protocol, and Expected Transmission Count (ETX) metric, a measure of the quality of a path between two nodes in a wireless packet data network. Additionally, the Wireless Networking Group in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a large public research-intensive university, are developing a multichannel, multi-radio wireless mesh testbed, called Net-X as a proof of concept implementation of some of the multichannel protocols being developed in that group. The implementation are based on an architecture that allows some of the radios to switch channels to maintain network connectivity, and includes protocols for channel allocation and routing. </p><strong>About the Author:</strong><br />John Diaz Eagan, Minnesotta <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.newsat.com/VSAT/cellular-backhaul.html">Mobile Backhaul</a><p> Article Source: <a href='http://www.articleseen.com/Article_Mesh-Networking-Examples_138735.aspx'> http://www.articleseen.com/Article_Mesh Networking: Examples_138735.aspx</a></p>

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