[7][8] Mesh networking is a local network composed of devices (nodes) that was originally designed to communicate through radio waves, allowing for different types of devices.
Some types of computing doesn't scale well past a certain level of parallelism and the gains of superior hardware components, and thus is bottle-necked, such as by Very Large Scale Instruction Words.
By increasing the number of computers rather than the power of their components, these bottlenecks are overcome.
Situations where resource sharing becomes an issue, or where higher fault tolerance is needed also find aid in distributed networking.
[10] Enterprises with rapid growth and scaling needs may find it challenging to maintain their own distributed network under the traditional client/server computing model.