self building networks

[Robert E. Seastrom]

Alex Fraser <beatnic at comcast.net> writes:

> [[http://thefutureofthings.com/news/6639/self-building-wireless-networks.html]]
> I think this is pretty cool stuff.  Didn't this used to be called mesh networking?  It seems
> that term has gone out of usage a bit

The problem with this family of technologies is that spectral reuse is
poor and the result is that you don't get much in the way of bandwidth
through them.

I predict it stays niche, and therefore expensive.

-r