Multi-hop mesh networks, confined to university labs at the start of this decade, are now widely available from commercial vendors. These vendors tout a number of advantages for mesh technologies: ...

Wide area networks, or WANs, provide network communication services in the workplace, connecting locations that can be spread out anywhere in the world. A topology is a description of a layout or ...

Sponsored by Digi-Key and Cypress Semiconductor: Large Bluetooth networks are now possible thanks to the mesh-network topology. This BLE-based solution simplifies its implementation. Virtually all of ...

The interconnections of nodes in a communications network. Nodes are wired together in a star, bus or ring architecture. Ethernet uses a star configuration, although earlier Ethernets used a bus.

If you have read or heard the term mesh networking and like to know more about this new technology revolutionizing wireless and cable networks both in business and at home. This quick guide will take ...

Suffering from a slow or sluggish home internet connection? Here are eight ways to help improve your network speeds. Mesh networks solve the problem of covering a large area, more than about 1,000 ...

The long-held dream of wireless network hackers everywhere is to dispense with centralised network infrastructure, and instead rely on a distributed network in which the clients perform the role of ...

Qualcomm has announced the Mesh Networking Platform intended to control and improve the use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the home. Unveiled at the Computex trade show in Taipei, Taiwan on ...