Meraki casts a wider net with help from Google
November 30th, 2006 by hubcapper
Although the Hubcap usually reports on Boston-based company, we think it’s fair to stretch our house rules to report on Mountain View based Meraki Networks. The wireless mesh networking company was launched to commercialize the technology developed in the MIT Roofnet project, and counts current and past MIT researchers among its founders and advisors.
Unstrung and GigaOm are reporting today that Google has invested in the firm alongside “a few silicon valley angels” in a sub-$1M round. Meraki produces wireless routers that operate in a peer-to-peer fashion to create wireless mesh networks, or to extend existing wireless network. Among other things, Google appears to be interested in using Meraki’s technology to complement the municipal network it’s building under contract for the city of San Francisco.
Meraki is reportedly also contributing its wireless mesh networking expertise to the One Laptop Per Child project, another MIT spinout aiming to distribute low-cost laptops to children in third world countries.
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