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The Capacity of Narrow Beam Transmission
The ClearMesh nodes use multiple narrow beam transmission links to provide fiber-grade service capacity distribution. The inherent advantages of utilizing narrow beam technology are:
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High capacity transmission – currently full-duplex 100 Mbps per link |
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No interference – guaranteed service quality, even in very dense deployments |
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Fine grained CoS support |
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Low transmission loop delay – only microseconds (just like fiber) |
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Low jitter – enabling digital voice and video quality (just like fiber) |
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License-free – no up-front capital investments, even for large deployments |
As a result, ClearMesh is the only wireless mesh network solution on the market capable of distributing gigabits of high-quality service capacity in dense metropolitan or campus environments where traditional RF technology fails to deliver.
Narrow beam wireless transmission, like any other wireless technology, is subject to atmospheric factors. Proper network design is required in order to maximize link availability in all weather conditions. Careful planning is necessary to take advantage of a mesh topology's redundant paths and ensure high network availability.
To further enhance the reliability of the network, ClearMesh provides a resilient mesh topology – with many alternate paths across an established metropolitan and campus environments. Thus, the service availability across a Sentry Mesh is higher than the availability of any individual link.
