Therefore, with the redundancy of
a mesh network and the self-healing mesh operating system, an optical wireless mesh
network can provide the kind of resiliency expected from Carrier Ethernet.
Scalability Optical wireless technology offers network bandwidth comparable to that
of fiber-optic technology and not easily matched by RF wireless technology. Systems
commercially available today can operate between 100 Mbps and 1 Gbps, and the potential
for higher data rates exists and will be available once industry demand makes
them commercially viable. Additionally, mesh networks also offer higher end-to-end
and network capacity. Therefore, optical wireless mesh technology can scale very well
to meet future growing service demands.
Optical wireless mesh networks are also very scalable when it comes to network
size. First of all, increasing the size of a mesh network only strengthens it due to
added redundancy rather than weakening it. Additionally, as more nodes and links are
added, the network??™s overall capacity grows rather than shrinks. And finally, because it
uses noninterfering and unlicensed spectrum, the size of the network can be increased
with impunity without compromising network performance.
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