Set up Wi-Fi on ULL

With mesh networking, it provides a wireless access anywhere on campus. Mesh Networking is a way to route data, voice and instructions between nodes. It allows for continuous connections and reconfiguration around broken or blocked paths by "hopping" from node to node until the destination is reached. Mesh network whose all nodes are connected to each other is a fully connected network. Mesh networks are self-healing: the network can still operate even when a node breaks down or a connection goes bad. As a result, a very reliable network is formed. This concept is applicable to wireless networks, wired networks, and software interaction.

Tropos has developed its own wireless routing protocol which called Predictive Wireless Routing Protocol (PWRP). The main benefit of this protocol is that it doesn't use routing tables or rely on hop-count only to select transmission paths. It compares packet error rates and other network conditions to determine a best path at any given moment. By dramatically reducing packet errors, PWRP avoids capacity-zapping and latency-causing retransmissions. Furthermore, it is also the industry's only mesh routing protocol that maintains low protocol overhead no matter how large the network: using less than 5% of the available bandwidth. Comparing with other mesh protocols, overhead grows as the number of network device increases. The PWRP also scales to thousands of nodes support that eliminating up to 95% of the wired backhaul associated with traditional access point solutions. Tropos Metro Mesh architecture and its Predictive Wireless Routing Protocol (PWRP) which it claim that:

• Eases deployment and scaling through a self-organizing network
• Allows wired backhaul to be added in line with subscriber growth by eliminating the eliminating the need to wire every node
• Maximizes available throughput: achieves 2x that of competing routing approaches even in large networks
• Ensures reliability with an efficient self-healing architecture
• Offers accessibility and mobility to standard Wi-Fi clients

Many cities have chosen Tropos to build and operate their city-wide networks. For example, Philadelphia is one of the earlier cities that provide the Wi-MAX. Believe it or not, New Orleans also has chosen Tropos to set up their wireless services to the city.