Home > Solutions > White Papers White Papers

The ClearMesh Metro Grid shatters the cost barrier to deploy high-speed broadband business services across an entire metro area, or business parks. And by doing so, it enables service providers to offer business LAN services to the broader SMB mass market. This wireless optical mesh solution transforms the legacy business model of facility-based service deployment. It requires minimal up-front investments and enables service providers to build out further infrastructure to finally bridge the SMB service gap.

Despite the affordability of video cameras themselves, and the recent advances in broadband, wireless and video technologies, deployments of centralized surveillance systems remain thwarted by logistics and by cost. The new "Sentry Mesh™" architecture model slashes deployment and ongoing costs while providing wireless flexibility to hundreds of IPVS cameras and fiber-like capacity and reliability. This new infrastructure blends the best of wireless, affordable reach, with the best of optics, superior service capacity and quality to balance the goals among CxOs.

At the heart of Free Space Optical (FSO) technology is a modulated light source. While a number of the systems available today use laser diodes; ClearMesh Networks is one of the few vendors that designed its system using Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). When comparing LEDs to laser diodes, one can see that LEDs are more conducive to the qualities necessary for mesh networking. With a wider receive beam to compensate for atmospheric movement, higher temperature tolerance, simplified electronics requirements and decreased overall system costs, LED based optical systems are better suited to bringing the benefits of low cost, scalable, end-to-end fiber-grade transmission capacity to the high-growth mesh networking market.