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Wireless networks have long embraced a centralized model that holds the potential for bottlenecks, latency and a single point of failure. But wireless mesh networks are emerging as an alternative to ...

Short-range networks based on wireless mesh networking architectures have evolved to enable a power- and cost-efficient means to enable the remote management of non-computer devices. Self-organizing ...

The interconnections of nodes in a communications network. Nodes are wired together in a star, bus or ring architecture. Ethernet uses a star configuration, although earlier Ethernets used a bus.

Wide area networks, or WANs, provide network communication services in the workplace, connecting locations that can be spread out anywhere in the world. A topology is a description of a layout or ...