Wireless Mesh Development
March 17th, 2009
Wireless networks (Wi-Fi) surround us for many years. Yet it is surprising how little progress was made. Yes, we have 802.11i, we have 802.11g and 802.11n, but with all the nettops out there, simple wireless infrastructure is not enough. Most service providers use long-range wireless networking for low cost links, sometimes for redundancy. It is hard to cover big areas.
Really ?!
This is what we try to address with one of our projects. We have implemented complete wireless mesh solution and several of its advantages include:
- Unlimited scalability: Unlimited number of nodes. Whenever new area has to be covered, nodes can be added at will.
- Easy to use: One firmware image is enough. Just install our firmware, power the node and that’s it. Every new node will connect to the mesh and start serving as an access point to the potential clients.
- Powerful Monitoring: Every node reports its current network and health status to a centralized monitoring point.
- Powerful NOC Subsystem: You can monitor all your nodes from a single point, check their status and load. Even integrate terrain maps and node location into a specialized GIS.
- Powerful User Management: We provide centralized user management interface with the ability to create multiple user classes and apply restrictions instantly throughout the whole network. Once created, the user account is active, no matter which access point user tries to connect to.
- Flexibility: Our Wireless System works with broad variety of back-end sources and technologies. It can easily be integrated within a telecoms or ISP systems.
- Dynamic Routing: We use state-of-the-art dynamic routing protocols like OLSR and B.A.T.M.A.N. to provide reliable mesh infrastructure.
- Multipoint connectivity: Whenever you need redundancy or load balancing just add another connection to upstream provider. The whole mesh network will benefit from that. Dynamic Routing will take care to forward traffic to active uplinks until others are being repaired and best of all, no users will be affected.
What we are most glad of is that all those things are no longer on the drawing board. Our software empowers rapidly growing wireless service providers in Asia and Europe.