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...