Modular communication housing unit providing integrated and automatic failover to a secondary meshed peer-to-peer communication network

A mesh radio extension unit comprising:

• a receiving sleeve configured to receive a communication device and including a data connector configured to provide a communicative coupling to the communication device;
• one or more antennas;
• a data link associated with a data link operating frequency and coupled to the one or more antennas, such that the data link provides bidirectional data connectivity between the data connector and a peer-to-peer meshed communication network by controlling the one or more antennas as a transceiver at the data link operating frequency;
• a power supply system configured to provide electrical power to one or more components of the mesh radio extension unit;
• and
• a control system configured to automatically route one or more data packets received or transmitted by the data link, wherein the control system includes a router and an addressing service for assigning and tracking addresses across the peer-to-peer meshed communication network,
• wherein the control system causes the communication device to communicatively couple to the data connector to failover to the peer-to-peer meshed communication network in response to determining that a primary network associated with the communication device is unavailable or has a signal strength below a threshold.