Deploying License-Free Wireless Wide-Area Networks

Chapter 3. Choosing Your Network Architecture

This chapter helps you evaluate the four major wireless network architectures and choose the most appropriate architecture for your network. Specifically, this chapter does the following:

• Describes four wireless network architectures: point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, cellular, and mesh

• Explains the advantages and disadvantages of each of these architectures

• Provides examples of each architecture

• Assists you in evaluating, drafting, and designing your own wireless network using one or more of the four architectures