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 ...

Ethernet truly is king.

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 ...

Wireless mesh networking has broad appeal and eliminates many of the problems associated with traditional, centralized wireless solutions. A mesh network enables access points to communicate with ...

Mesh Wi-Fi works well in many applications, but it has its limitations.

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MANHASSET, N.Y. ” Wireless ad hoc mesh networking will get a boost on two levels this week with the unveiling of startup PacketHop Inc. and the announcement that wireless home networking and ...

Mesh networking has taken to the skies, through a pilot experiment carried out over the rural Midlands earlier this month. A group of wireless networking enthusiasts who run a mesh network in South ...

I’ve tested a lot of Wi-Fi mesh (aka whole-home coverage systems) products lately, but what if you already have a good Wi-Fi router and don’t want to do a rip-and-replace job? There’s a new device ...

Startup Ember Corp. has launched an IEEE 802.15.4-based wireless transceiver with mesh-networking software. Combined with the debut of startup PacketHop Inc. and the recent business partnership ...