I'm tangentially involved in an Aruba wireless mesh deployment that I suspect has stretched a layer 2 too far. We have a few branches from the core location, each with about 4 hops to the core, not ...

I realize that Plume is a mesh solution focused on helping those who do not have a wired backhaul, which is what I have, but should it still be a recommendation if you do not need the wireless mesh ...

A mesh wireless network node must perform three functions: serve client devices, receive traffic from another mesh node (mesh ingress) and transmit traffic to another mesh node (mesh egress).

Mesh Wi-Fi marketing makes it sound like the answer to every home networking problem. Blanket your house in signal, eliminate dead zones, and never think about it again. For plenty of households, that ...