By using OLSR to connect the access points together, we were able to quickly roll out as many APs as needed to effectively cover the huge conference area. There was simply no wired infrastructure present at the event, and running CAT5 throughout the space was impractical. Using OLSR meant that we could simply plug in a node wherever power was present, and the network would "figure itself out." People connected to the network using the traditional AP services that were provided on the second radio, and their traffic was automatically forwarded over the mesh all the way back to the uplink.
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