russ on Nostr: No, Meshtastic isn't the hardware. Both these things are more or less at the same ...
No, Meshtastic isn't the hardware.
Both these things are more or less at the same level within the stack, but have different goals, and Reticulum will work on the same kind of low power LoRa hardware as Meshtastic, but Reticulum can also can use other network bearers like WIFI, Ethernet, etc.
Here's an interesting brief write up (not mine) that does a comparison.
https://blog.erethon.com/blog/2024/01/31/comparing-reticulum-and-meshtastic/
Both these things are more or less at the same level within the stack, but have different goals, and Reticulum will work on the same kind of low power LoRa hardware as Meshtastic, but Reticulum can also can use other network bearers like WIFI, Ethernet, etc.
Here's an interesting brief write up (not mine) that does a comparison.
https://blog.erethon.com/blog/2024/01/31/comparing-reticulum-and-meshtastic/