Edited by author 01-18-2006 02:34 PM
Agreed mesh is definitely the way to go but the problem with a "classic" mesh is that its implementation results in huge performance problems across multiple nodes so there's no way of getting anything like a decent quality of service on it. I know, beause I've tried it. We tried an implementation of voice calls on the open Linux meshAP system, which incidentally a lot of other companies have contributed to - not just one. Well the performance losses we measured were up to 90% degradation across the furthest apart bits of the mesh - we compared this to the - much more quietly developed Cambridge Matrix system, where the maximum losses we got across the network were 15% which is much better for voice calls...