Figure 4.1: Wireless network architecture and initial bridge configuration.
4.1.2
Connecting and Configuring IP Devices and Cameras
FM1100 mounts one Ethernet port that can be used to connect a camera
or another Ethernet-compatible device. You should connect any device di-
rectly using an Ethernet
crossover
cable to the PoE injector. Use a straight
patch cable to connect the PoE injector to the FM1100. Make sure to use
outdoor-rated cables (refer to Fig. 4.1 for details).
The camera or the device attached to the FM1100 should use an IP address
belonging to the same class of the devices on the other network segment
of the wireless bridge.
The default IP address class is 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0.
4.2
Mesh Networking Basics
This section describes the Fluidmesh mesh networking architecture and
the basic functionalities of the Fluidmesh 2200 (FM2200) unit and the Flu-
idmesh 1100 (FM1100) unit with mesh-plugin. For the sake of clarity, we will
refer to a generic
FMunit
whenever the discussion applies both to FM1100
and FM2200.
Fluidmesh Networks develops wireless networking solutions based on in-
novative mesh networking architecture which presents unmatched advan-
tages in terms of reliability and flexibility compared to any traditional wire-
less solution. Using Fluidmesh technology for your network allows you to
take advantage of this powerful wireless mesh networking architecture. A
sample Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) is shown in Fig. 4.2. In a wireless
mesh network, every FMunit transmits the data packets coming from the
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