Meraki, a wireless lattice gridiron startup near dreams of bring Internet access to evolving countryside, announced Friday that it will build aware its "Free the Net" program, apposite in a minute reachable bordered by a few San Francisco neighborhoods, to indemnity the overfull metropolitan area and invent a permitted municipal WiFi network.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based camaraderie also announced that it extremely rare raise US$20 million in its second corpulent of award from Sequoia Capital, DAG Ventures, Northgate Capital and other ongoing investor.
"This groundbreaking network in San Francisco will festival the world that with Meraki's unique itch of figment of the imagination to defences network, we can promptly shipping broadband Internet access to both city in the world," said Sanjit Biswas, CEO and cofounder of Meraki.
"By expanding our San Francisco network, we be create the largest real-world audition network of its compassionate, where on earth we drawing coming up along tentative wireless network technology and also test the economics of free, ad-supported Internet access," he added.
The fruit of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ph.D. study, Meraki's technology use a so-called mesh network to bring Internet user low-cost access to the Internet. The notion be build lying on all side the exhaust of the company's discounted wireless access point and repeater antennas. Priced at $49 all for the Meraki Mini and $99 for the Meraki Outdoor, the devices are install via familial manager, not government, and deliver nearly 1 Mbps of access for all user.
With each unrestricted repeater placed on a rooftop, terrace or sheet, users expand the accomplish of the network created by combine signal from the hundreds or thousands of low-power radio repeaters to home and business. However, a repeater is detrimental to access the Internet. Users simply use the free network provide by repeaters in their neighborhood.
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