User's Manual

Setup and Deployment Guide
1.5 Overview of the System
1.5.1 Introduction
MeshNetworks develops Mobile Broadband communications systems with “meshed”
architectures. That is, each node can connect directly, or indirectly (by hopping through other
nodes), with any other node in the network. The peer-to-peer nature of the mesh architecture
combined with data rate control in each subscriber and infrastructure node in the network
insures reliable delivery while providing increased network capacity through geographic reuse of
the frequency spectrum.
The network comprises four distinct elements:
• Subscriber Devices (SDs)
• Wireless Routers (WRs)
• Intelligent Access Points (IAPs)
• Mobile Internet Switching Controllers (MiSCs)
The overwhelming portion of the value that MeshNetworks provides is in the Wireless Modem
Card (WMC). The WMC is used in Subscriber Devices as well as in the Wireless Router and
Intelligent Access Point (IAP), both of which are types of infrastructure equipment.
MeshNetworks provides a Mobile Internet Switching Controller (MiSC) which is assembled from
industry standard equipment and conform to industry standards. MeshNetworks also provides
the network applications which are required for proper operation and value extraction from the
mobile internet system.
Figure 1. Elements of the System
All network elements are designed to support mobile applications. Subscriber Devices can be
either mobile or fixed, while the remaining components are typically fixed. Wireless Routers and
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