An ideal application for mesh networking is off-grid communication; when there’s no cellular reception and WiFi won’t reach, wide-area technologies like LoRa can be used to create ad hoc wireless ...

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 ...

Mesh networks, the idea of passing data from one node to another around the globe has had one of its first sightings in an unlikely place this week when Dust Networks, a Berkeley-based company, ...

Whether to get around traditional ISPs or to bulk up resiliency in the event of a disaster, these mesh networks are worth knowing about. Mesh networks help people stay connected while avoiding ...

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: ...

In late February 2004, emergency agencies responded to a catastrophe at San Francisco's landmark Golden Gate Bridge. First to the scene was the Marin County Office of Emergency Services, followed by ...

Applications for mesh networking continue to crop up. Mesh is being used to affordably scale municipal networks, as noted in this newsletter’s recent discussion about the new Strix-based network going ...

Applications that rely on microservices put demands on data-center infrastructure and personnel, but the service mesh can optimize routing requests between microservices without constant human ...

Cloud delivery has become the norm for enterprise applications, with reports projecting that the global public cloud services market will grow 17% this year. However, some applications migrating to ...

The task of moving enterprise applications to the cloud usually doesn't cause too many headaches, but facilitating quick and secure communication across distributed apps and network components is a ...

In many parts of the world, days after a good rainfall, it’s fairly common to see various species of mushrooms popping up out of the ground. These mysterious organisms aren’t the whole story, though.