User Manual

Version 3.03 SPEEDLAN 9000 Series Installation and Operation User Guide
1-8 Introduction
SPEEDLAN 9000 Mesh Protocol -- How It Works in Mesh
Clouds
Figure 1-3: SPEEDView illustrating a mesh network
SPEEDLAN 9000 routers provide the unique ability to "self-heal" the wireless network as
the topography changes over time, thereby increasing the overall stability and
performance of the network while allowing traffic to reach buildings blocked by
obstructions of line-of-sight.
What is happening in Figure 1-3 on page 1-8?
• You will notice negative numbers next to the routers, or referred to as nodes
on the network diagram. These numbers represent the receive signal strength
(expressed as dBm) for the links in the network diagram.
• The black dots in a mesh network diagram indicate a trace route, which maps
out the current data flow between the selected pair of nodes. A user would
select the trace feature to view the data flow between a node pair (for mesh
networks only).