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October 03, 2005
Mesh Era Finally Arrives
Posted by Dana Blankenhorn
The mesh networking era is finally here, according to InStat.
A mesh, in which all devices on a network are connected to all other devices, finally has a hockey-stick chart. InStat's new report has last year's $33.5 million in sales growing to $974.3 million in 2009, a classic hockey stick formation.
InStat credits military needs with developing the technology, but there are many advantages to installing a mesh as opposed to a single hotspot:
- A mesh can cover a large area.
- A mesh can make certain the coverage area is completely covered.
- Mesh can connect to many different access technologies, not just WiFi but UWB and WiMax on the wireless end, or WiMax and a fiber pipe on the backhaul end.
- Mesh is primarily a North American technology.
The title of the InStat report really says it all - moving from ad-hoc to fixed instructure.
Now how will we manage to screw this up?
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Dana Blankenhorn has been a business journalist for over 25 years and has covered the online world professionally since 1985. He founded the "Interactive Age Daily" for CMP Media, and has written for the Chicago Tribune, Advertising Age, and dozens of other publications over the years.
1. Jesse Kopelman on October 5, 2005 12:28 PM writes...
Another advantage of mesh is that it is ideally suited for unlicensed frequencies. The key to success for unlicensed is keeping cell size relatively small so that you can take advantage of the inverse exponential nature of propagation. If you do that, you need a large number of base-stations and tactics like mesh that reduce per-BS transport costs are essential.
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