A pair of mesh networking companies will take the stage Monday, promising to improve wireless connectivity by shunting wireless connections through multiple access points.
PacketHop Inc. will announce that it has spun off from parent and noted incubator SRI International; in an unrelated announcement, Zensys A/S will disclose a business relationship with Intel Corp. to wire a mesh network into home appliances.
Traditional 802.11 wireless networking links a client to an access point in a direct connection. Wireless providers are working to allow 802.11 users to roam from one access point to another, such as with cellular handsets. In cases where the signal from the client to the access point is blocked, however, a wireless user is often stuck.
Mesh networking, on the other hand, dynamically routes wireless signals in a weblike mesh. Individual devices, which make up the web's wireless weft, automatically calculate their position and dynamically reroute signals to maintain the best connection. Intel has been a public proponent of the technology, showing off early research at its Intel Developer Forum each of the past two years.
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