Does any softdevice support Mesh, per BLE5?

[Mitch996]

Hello, I'm pretty sure the new BLE 5 will come out soon and it will integrate the mesh. And if mesh needs to be done at a protocol level, it must be the softdevice.

So, any softdevice so far support mesh? Or at least, any plans?

I'm usre nrf52840 support BLE5.

[endnode]

Well there are people working on it for 3+ years as their core business and still these networks are barely usable for anything else then sending few bytes per day and having agility in the network in the range of dozens of seconds up to dozens of minutes. I've evaluated things like Wirepas PINO, CSR mesh, Nordic experimental BLE mesh and few more, none of them hold in larger scale and real environment (2.4GHz noise), packets were traveling minutes. So yes, it transports the data but I have completely different performance requirements so I wouldn't even call it "network" (sending a pigeon would be faster and more reliable). More people researching the better but let's not pretend that this problem was waiting for some big corp R&D guru who would suddenly make it working (also outside the lab and not only on his desk with 4 dev kits).