Mesh Networking Options for Muni Wi-Fi and Other Applications
Mesh networks offer varying levels of capacity and ability to address the full range of voice, video and data applications in a Muni WiFi network.
There are single radio wireless mesh nodes, dual-radio nodes and multi-radio nodes. Well-designed wide-area wireless mesh networks will incorporate a mixed approach to address the capacity and application demands of the network:
- Single radio wireless mesh nodes offer low cost coverage but are limited in scalability
- Dual-radio wireless mesh nodes enhance the scalability and capacity of the wireless mesh network
- Multi-radio wireless mesh nodes are used to address demanding voice and video applications, address high density coverage areas, and aggregate traffic from single- and dual-radio wireless mesh nodes.
