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Written by Kory Mohr
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Tuesday, 12 April 2005 |
Amended from Daily Wireless:
Unstrung Insider chief analyst Gabriel Brown points out in the report,
Wireless Mesh: New Wave Broadband, that
Microsoft already has some mesh software available for download.
But it's what the firm could develop that interests Brown. He notes that Microsoft is researching mesh applications:
"The public face of Microsoft and wireless mesh is the Microsoft Networking Research Group,
which maintains a mesh networking Web page and has published several
relevant research papers." In June 2004, the Group organized the Mesh
Networking Summit 2004 to brainstorm various aspects of mesh networking.
Microsoft has examined different methods of
wireless mesh networking, Brown finds, including "how multi-radio mesh
nodes allow higher throughput than single radio nodes...
"It’s unclear why Microsoft is pursuing this
research," he writes. "We suspect the primary interest is in
consumer-scale meshes, and potentially, mesh-enabled client
applications. The company’s publicly available research has a heavy
focus on using wireless mesh to cross the “digital divide” and provide
broadband to homes that can’t get DSL or cable modems."
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