What is MANET (Mobile Ad Hoc Network)

Key characteristics of a MANET include Dynamic routing, Resilience, Scalability, Flexibility, and ease of Integration into the task fulfilment.​

• Dynamic routing enables the network of radios to automatically detect the best route at each moment in time and adapt to provide the best possible connectivity. This provides resilience to the network which will adapt to loss of a node or environmental disruptions to maintain the network.

• The MANET must also be Scalable to 100 or even 1000 nodes without crushing the network - and must remain flexible to external factors.

• It must be adaptable to mission requirements by providing different Talk Groups to communicate such as voice, location data, sensor data, or other relevant data being ingested by diverse platforms across the network.

• The MANET has to prioritize the network robustness in all environments to ensure the data gets to where it needs to go.​​

The WAVESWAY's MANET is highly flexible in its configuration, easily adaptable to a variety of conditions, and most importantly, cost-effective to scale.

It operates in the license-free band, and its devices have such low power that they can be used without licenses.

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• It is a decentralized type of wireless network where individual devices can connect and communicate with each other without the need for a centralized or pre-existing network infrastructure.

• It is a continuously self-configuring, self-organizing network where devices, also called nodes, can form connections and communicate on the go.

• It is a network where each node is ready to receive and forward data to other nodes, where each node acts as a host and a router, an endpoint and a relay.