What’s This Mesh Stuff?
telecommatt | September 4, 2008 There seems to be a pretty big focus on ‘the mesh’ these days. This post from RWW pulls together material from Marc Canter’s upcoming book. It’s a good look at the competing platforms that are emerging.
The idea of a mesh network is a bit hard to conceptualize. You could say that it’s a bunch of communications devices that help each other move data from one point to another. Wikipedia offers a much better, albeit more involved, definition. I found Microsoft’s explanation rather easier to grasp. And their Vision video isn’t bad either.
The idea of a mesh network is a bit hard to conceptualize. You could say that it’s a bunch of communications devices that help each other move data from one point to another. Wikipedia offers a much better, albeit more involved, definition. I found Microsoft’s explanation rather easier to grasp. And their Vision video isn’t bad either.
|
It’s great to hear that Marc Canter is writing a book, called ‘How to build the Open Mesh’. He’s been working for years on this vision with his product 
Popularity: 4% [?]
Sphere: Related Contentnone
