Linear Technology announced its SmartMesh IP™ wireless sensor (WSN) product line expansion to address the growing needs of industrial Internet of Things (IoT) applications. New capabilities include ...

Multi-hop mesh networks, confined to university labs at the start of this decade, are now widely available from commercial vendors. These vendors tout a number of advantages for mesh technologies: ...

Wireless networks have long embraced a centralized model that holds the potential for bottlenecks, latency and a single point of failure. But wireless mesh networks are emerging as an alternative to ...

A new and resilient Internet infrastructure presents a set of unique testing challenges. Wireless mesh networking, combining performance, simplicity, and economics, can be used when wired backhaul ...

Jimmy is a writer and editor who publishes a weekly newsletter. You can find him on Twitter. Mesh networks are the foundation of municipal Wi-Fi, allowing cities to offer Internet access across a ...

Wireless repeaters and mesh networks are both technologies that can be used to extend network coverage over a given area. Wireless repeaters work by taking an existing wireless signal and ...

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose this week, wireless networking has been a major theme. Yet while the success of Wi-Fi as a replacement for wired networks is not in doubt, there may be more to ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Under a BAA (Broad Agency Announcement) funded project with Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Reach, the Wireless Power-at-a-Distance company ...

Not too long ago, enterprises had limited options when it came to making a wireless network part of the New Data Center plan. In the local area, the choice was Wi-Fi – 802.11b, g or a. In the larger ...

If you’ve not been hearing lots about wireless meshes lately, you soon will be. In 2001, Farpoint Group picked wireless meshes as one of the most important wireless technologies for this decade. And ...

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