Mesh Network

A wireless mesh network is a peer-to-peer network that might have just a single hop or multiple hops. Participating access points cooperate to route packets. Mesh protocols work on Layer2 of the OSI model and are basically an implementation of dynamic routing on Layer 2. A mesh network is dynamically self-organized and self-configured, with the nodes in the network automatically establishing and maintaining mesh connectivity among themselves creating, in effect, an ad hoc or peer-to-peer network. This feature brings many advantages such as low up-front cost, easy network maintenance, robustness, and reliable service coverage. An Aerohive mesh allows for both indoor and outdoor deployments where Ethernet backhaul is not available or cannot be made available. The Aerohive implementation allows the flexibility to dedicate a radio for the mesh link only or for mesh and client access. Aerohive mesh can also be used as a high-availability and redundancy solution. In such cases, when it is required to route around a failure in the wired network, a wireless mesh network connection is dynamically and gracefully established between neighboring APs.