Althea now has 4 full time users with more in the immediate pipeline and longer term plans shaping up.

Two are using CPE’s as pictured below for long distance links, of a few yards to a mile. The other two are connected using the 5ghz wifi in the routers themselves, which is performing flawlessly over short distances with only 3 peers.

These are representative of our two major use cases, high density housing where short distance ‘pure mesh’ is possible and long distance communication using specialized hardware. In an apartment complex for example a home router would be able to resell to adjacent units above and below. Then specialized hardware would be used to reach beyond that.

The key leverage of mesh technology in Althea is not to create a network without infrastructure, but to create one out of any infrastructure available automatically.