Meraki in the News
Free Public Wi-Fi in Harvard SquareThe Harvard Square Business Association (HSBA) has been working in collaboration with the City of Cambridge, Harvard University, and Harvard Square Business Association members to deploy a mesh network to provide Free, Outdoor Wifi Access to the public. 6/5/08
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The Hot Zone“Park bench or Barcalounger? For a while, it seemed as if that would soon be the biggest question for urban dwellers wanting a little Wi-Fi. Just a year ago, dozens of cities across the country” 3/21/08
Meraki Aims to Link Up a City“Meraki Inc. plans to offer free high-speed wireless Internet access throughout San Francisco this year, betting that low-cost technology and help from users will bring success where other municipal Wi-Fi projects have failed.” 1/4/08
A low-cost route to the Web“California start-up Meraki powers several thousand wireless networks across 70 countries, bringing the Internet to those who otherwise could never afford it.” 12/12/07
Meraki Mini Wins Popular Science Grand Award for Computing“With a simple $50 box, Meraki Networks hopes to spark a worldwide Wi-Fi revolution. The wireless router lets a city block, or even an entire village, share the same Internet connection.” 10/13/07
Community Wi-Fi Comes to San Francisco“This is really just a showcase to prove that grassroots groups can provide free Wi-Fi, And it’s an approach that gets a network up in a weekend rather than waiting months.” 8/14/07
Grassroots Wi-Fi Movement Spreads Around San Francisco“A grassroots movement is taking hold in San Francisco to do what the city hasn’t been able to do - provide free Wi-Fi internet connections to entire neighborhoods.” 8/15/07
MIT Technology Review A Free Mesh Network for San Francisco“Their mission is a good fit with the mission of our team: to promote competition in the Internet access space,” says Minnie Ingersoll, a product manager at Google’s Alternative Access Team. “It’s about getting more people online, giving them more choices.” 8/16/07
San Fran Finally Gets Free WiFi—But Not the Kind You’re Thinking“You can think of mesh networks as the next step after WiFi. Today, there are tens of thousands of WiFi hotspots around the world. But each one extends broadband Internet access no more than a few hundred feet. A mesh network ties these WiFi routers to each other to create a bigger network that can cover a neighborhood or even an entire city.” 06/2007
Meraki raises $5M to “connect the next billion people”“Want a dirt cheap Internet connection for everyone in your apartment building? Meraki Networks offers a way. 2/4/2007
Wireless Internet for All, Without the Towers“An intriguingly inexpensive alternative has appeared: a Wi-Fi network that is not top-down but rather ground-level, peer-to-peer. It relies not on $3,500 radio transmitters perched on street lamps by professional installers but instead on $50 boxes that serve, depending upon population density, more than one household and can be installed by anyone with the ease of plugging in a toaster.” 2/4/2007
