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Meraki introduces plug-and-play WiFi mesh kit
WiFi mesh vendor Meraki introduced the Main Street WiFi Starter Pack, a product design to assist any town or business district to deploy a WiFi mesh network across a square mile for less than $10,000.
Meraki has always had a unique strategy to deploy wireless mesh technology. It makes WiFi equipment and sells its WiFi repeaters and network gateways to residents who volunteer to deploy the equipment on rooftops or on their windowsills to create a wireless mesh. Municipalities have been deploying the solution too, and now they can deploy the Main Street plug-and-play kit network themselves or use a Meraki certified partner to handle the roll out.
Typical mesh solutions that cover a square mile cost between $25,000 and $100,000, Meraki said.
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- read this release
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Posted by Wireless Worlds | November 6, 2008 - 5:01pm
have to say your new information is actually quite old. There have been groups including our own deploying kits all over the world creating over 600 Wireless service providers over the last several years. Our kits sells for $2500 and covers 1-3 square miles via laptop, and 7-18 miles via long range wireless client hardware (CPE) starting at $299. Visit www.wirelessworlds.com for our free community network and more information on how you to can create your own part of the worlds largest global mbilemesh(tm).
Posted by Lynnette Luna | November 6, 2008 - 5:03pm
I didn't say it was a new concept, just a new product from Meraki.--Lynnette
