Systems and methods for building wireless mesh networks

A method comprising:

• identifying, from a pool of existing customers of a given type of service that is being provided by a given service provider, a set of existing customers residing in respective homes that are to serve as a set of candidate homes at which to deploy infrastructure nodes for a wireless mesh network that is to deliver a high-speed internet service in addition to the given type of service;
• performing a line-of-site (LOS) analysis for the set of candidate homes;
• based on the LOS analysis performed for the set of candidate homes, identifying a subset of candidate homes that each have a sufficient LOS path to at least one other candidate home so as to enable direct wireless communication with the at least one other candidate home via a wireless, millimeter wave (mmWave) communication link;
• and
• building the wireless mesh network based on the identified subset of candidate homes by:
• deploying infrastructure nodes for the wireless nesh network at the identified subset of candidate homes, wherein each infrastructure node comprises equipment for establishing one or more wireless, mmWave communication links with one or more other infrastructure nodes;
• and
• forming a respective direct wireless communication path between each candidate home in the identified subset of candidate homes and at least one other candidate home in the identified subset of candidate homes, wherein each respective direct wireless communication path between two given candidate homes in the identified subset of candidate homes is formed by establishing a respective wireless, mmWave communication link between the infrastructure nodes deployed at the two given candidate homes in the identified subset of candidate homes.