A major benefit of wireless mesh networks is path diversity, which provides many routes to the Internet in case one of the routers fails or its transmission path is temporarily blocked.

Industrial wireless mesh standards adoption WirelessHART continues to be the preferred standards approach going forward, but 25 percent prefer ISA100 Wireless or a hybrid strategy. The ability to ...

Token Ring naturally uses the ring architecture. A mesh topology is usually found in a wide area network (WAN) to provide redundant paths between locations. See Ethernet and Token Ring.