fonのようなmeraki

メラキmerakiの製品Meraki miniはまだ出荷されていないもののfonのように低価格で家庭内にwifiを設置して隣近所同士でワイアレス・ネットワークをシェアリングできる。MITの学生であったサンジット・ビスワスとジョン・ビケットによって設立されたmerakigoogleベンチャー・キャピタルであるセコイア・キャピタルに投資を受けている。merakiの速度はDSL並にきびきびしておりwifiのセキュリティープロトコルをオンにしておけばプライバシーも問題ないという。

At this time last year, two of Meraki's co-founders ― Sanjit Biswas and John Bicket ― were still Ph.D. students at M.I.T., pursuing academic research on wireless mesh networks in the course of building Roofnet, an experimental network that covered about one-third of Cambridge, Mass., and offered residents free service.[...]
Mr. Biswas and Mr. Bicket realized that their mesh-network gear designed for residential use could avoid that problem, and hasten the extension of Internet access worldwide. They founded Meraki, took a leave of absence from M.I.T. and, along with a third co-founder, Hans Robertson, moved to Silicon Valley. In short order, Google and then Sequoia Capital, one of Google's original venture capital backers, invested in Meraki.[...]
The bandwidth can match DSL service, but here it is throttled down a bit to deter bandwidth-hogging downloads. Nonetheless, Mr. Burmeister-Brown says everyone is able to enjoy Web browsing with what he describes as "really snappy response." The sharing of signals among neighbors does not compromise privacy if standard Wi-Fi security protocols are switched on.

http://meraki.net/products/
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/business/yourmoney/04digi.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5088&en=28e094940f7284cb&ex=1328245200&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss