When installing on a building, the system should be closer to the roof??™s edge
than toward its middle.
Wireless Mesh Networking Technology
A mesh network is a network of equipment, called nodes, where each node directly communicates
with multitudes of other nodes to create a network. Each node in a mesh
network serves as an ingress and egress point for network traffic, and the traffic flows
through the network by hoping from one node to another node. The term mesh signifies
a key defining characteristic of the network, namely the existence of independent redundant
data paths from one node to the other. For example, a tree network is not considered
a mesh network because it lacks redundant data paths between nodes. Mesh
also implies a generic topological structure where most nodes communicate directly
with more than two other nodes. A mesh network can be a regular mesh where nodes
are interconnected to create a well-defined topological structure, such as a rectangular
mesh network. A mesh network can also be an irregular mesh where nodes are interconnected
without any topological rules and in a seemingly random fashion. Figure 9.
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