Wireless Mesh networks can be one of the most scalable and ubiquitous frameworks for your technology infrastructure.

Mesh is a wireless co-operative communication infrastructure among a large amount of individual wireless transceivers (i.e. a wireless mesh). This type of infrastructure is decentralized (with no central service provider), relatively inexpensive, and very reliable and resilient, as each node need only transmit as far as the next node. Nodes act as repeaters to transmit data from nearby nodes to peers that are too far away to reach, resulting in a network that can span large distances, especially over rough or difficult terrain.

Mesh networks are also extremely reliable, as each node is connected to several other nodes. If one node drops out of the network, due to hardware failure or any other reason, its neighbors simply find another route. Extra capacity can be installed by simply adding more nodes. The solutions are as diverse as communications in difficult environments such as emergency situations, tunnels and oil rigs to battlefield surveillance and high speed mobile video applications on board public transport or real time racing car telemetry.

Since this wireless Internet infrastructure has the potential to be much cheaper than the traditional type, many wireless community network groups as well as municipalities, are already considering wireless mesh networks.

NetMethods has also leveraged its wireless communications knowledge to develop IP addressable Video Surveillance Systems.

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