self building networks

[Robert Stratton]

I'm not sure that's necessarily still the case. I looked at a lot of mesh networking approaches at one point and it was continually improving in the enterprise case. There are still hard challenges when it comes to route convergence/delivery and hidden transmitters but there are some systems on the market that can move some bits. In one sense, the mesh part can be another application over a variety of transport flavors. 

Market-wise, there are some challenges, which is why the few notable commercial ventures have been for specific vertical market applications, like video sharing from police cars, etc. 

--Bob

----- Original Message -----
> 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
> 
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