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wireless mesh network Last modified: Tuesday, February 21, 2006
A wireless mesh network (WMN) is a mesh network implemented over a Wireless LAN (WLAN). In WMNs, communications between nodes and those between nodes and clients are over a radio link. Also see the Wireless LAN Standards chart in the Quick Reference section of Webopedia.
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