The problem with large, complex networks of sensors is that they're large and complex. A wired sensor network can be an expensive nightmare just to install, for example. Wireless networks save ...

It's something of a cliché, but physicist Niels Bohr summed it up best back in the 1930s: prediction is tough, especially when it's about the future. But that's probably not what IT professionals ...

Wireless networks have to work hard to keep up with today's families with their high-data usage when streaming movies, playing games or working from home. When I think of Netgear Orbi, I imagine ...

(1) A Wi-Fi network that uses multiple units. See Wi-Fi mesh network. (3) A network that provides Wi-Fi connectivity within an urban or suburban environment. It comprises "mesh routers," which are a ...

Multi-hop mesh networks, confined to university labs at the start of this decade, are now widely available from commercial vendors. These vendors tout a number of advantages for mesh technologies: ...

Not too long ago, enterprises had limited options when it came to making a wireless network part of the New Data Center plan. In the local area, the choice was Wi-Fi – 802.11b, g or a. In the larger ...

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 ...

Structured wiring revolutionized LANs and IT strategies. Wireless LANs — specifically mesh networks — are creating another revolution. Call it “structured wireless.” Some IT planning consultants view ...

Mesh networking and wireless routers with multiple access points are a complicated category by default. Each unit works in conjunction with the others to create one large wireless network in your ...

Mesh networks could revolutionize communications in the future. Independent of the Internet we know today, wireless mesh networks (WMN) allow both ad-hoc and fixed wireless “nodes” to form a ...

The proposed IEEE wireless LAN mesh specification is already getting some traction, though still over 18 months from final ratification, thanks to early experimentation by the One Laptop Per Child ...