In addition to diverse redundancy, the Mesh/Ring also enhances availability through the following:

• Shortened Radio Links     
• Angle Diversity - providing 5 to 10x per link availability improvements      
• Option for 3rd diverse links from any node     
• Option for 2nd hub node to provide nodal redundancy 

The AirPair Mesh/Ring is deployed by using AirPair links, in tandem with an approved Ethernet switch, and an AirPair multi-beam antenna assembly. The Ethernet switch provides protection switching in less than 50 ms. 

The Mesh/Ring can be deployed with any of the following licensing options:

• Area License (i.e. 24 GHz DEMS, 28 GHz LMDS, 26 GHz LMDS)     
• Link-by-Link licensing (i.e. 11, 13, 15, 18, 23, 26 GHz)     
• 24 GHz Unlicensed 

In addition to the benefits discussed above, there are the following economic benefits of a Mesh/Ring configuration:

• Reduced antenna size due to shorter links     
• Reduced repeater requirements due to shorter links     
• Overall, a mesh/ring configuration enables lowest network cost, while providing 99.999% availability, and delivering high-speed native Ethernet services.