Amazon acquires Eero, maker of mesh Wi-Fi routers
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Eero's routers could help Amazon connect its various Echo and Alexa devices.
Amazon has announced that it will acquire Eero, one of the biggest players in the networking hardware space known for its easy-to-set-up mesh Wi-Fi solutions.
Bay Area-based Eero, named after Finnish industrial designer Eero Saarinen, has been in operation since early 2015. It has already shipped several products. Neither Amazon nor Eero revealed how much money the tech giant paid in the acquisition, but Eero had raised $90 million in venture capital since its founding
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Is wireless mesh the next big thing? Especially with the new 802.11 draft proposed this could be a serious contender against wired everywhere.
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Eero is one of the biggest players in the space? They are so new, and I certainly have never heard of them before. The article sounded like they had "just released" their first products. And talks about them in terms of investment size, not the size of the company. So calling them the biggest seems to go against the rest of the article where they seem like an "unrealized startup."
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@coliver said in Amazon acquires Eero, maker of mesh Wi-Fi routers:
Is wireless mesh the next big thing? Especially with the new 802.11 draft proposed this could be a serious contender against wired everywhere.
Maybe in mansions, but in a normal home? I have a 2,000 square foot awkwardly shaped house with external walls in the middle of the house and I don't even need new equipment, nor high end equipment, nor central placement, nor proper wall placement for my single AP to cover the entire house, yard, and street by the house!
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@scottalanmiller said in Amazon acquires Eero, maker of mesh Wi-Fi routers:
@coliver said in Amazon acquires Eero, maker of mesh Wi-Fi routers:
Is wireless mesh the next big thing? Especially with the new 802.11 draft proposed this could be a serious contender against wired everywhere.
Maybe in mansions, but in a normal home? I have a 2,000 square foot awkwardly shaped house with external walls in the middle of the house and I don't even need new equipment, nor high end equipment, nor central placement, nor proper wall placement for my single AP to cover the entire house, yard, and street by the house!
I can see that. It probably wouldn't fly in the enterprise space either. I could see if you needed to cover an outbuilding or a garage.... but point-to-point would cover that much better.
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@coliver said in Amazon acquires Eero, maker of mesh Wi-Fi routers:
@scottalanmiller said in Amazon acquires Eero, maker of mesh Wi-Fi routers:
@coliver said in Amazon acquires Eero, maker of mesh Wi-Fi routers:
Is wireless mesh the next big thing? Especially with the new 802.11 draft proposed this could be a serious contender against wired everywhere.
Maybe in mansions, but in a normal home? I have a 2,000 square foot awkwardly shaped house with external walls in the middle of the house and I don't even need new equipment, nor high end equipment, nor central placement, nor proper wall placement for my single AP to cover the entire house, yard, and street by the house!
I can see that. It probably wouldn't fly in the enterprise space either. I could see if you needed to cover an outbuilding or a garage.... but point-to-point would cover that much better.
Right, in the enterprise space you expect that nearly all deployments will be wired for performance.
Mesh is an interesting approach, but mostly used in outdoor spaces in the "serving consumer" it weird spaces, space.
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@scottalanmiller said in Amazon acquires Eero, maker of mesh Wi-Fi routers:
Eero is one of the biggest players in the space? They are so new, and I certainly have never heard of them before. The article sounded like they had "just released" their first products. And talks about them in terms of investment size, not the size of the company. So calling them the biggest seems to go against the rest of the article where they seem like an "unrealized startup."
Eero has been around for at least 2 years, but I think it's more like 3 or 4.
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@Dashrender said in Amazon acquires Eero, maker of mesh Wi-Fi routers:
@scottalanmiller said in Amazon acquires Eero, maker of mesh Wi-Fi routers:
Eero is one of the biggest players in the space? They are so new, and I certainly have never heard of them before. The article sounded like they had "just released" their first products. And talks about them in terms of investment size, not the size of the company. So calling them the biggest seems to go against the rest of the article where they seem like an "unrealized startup."
Eero has been around for at least 2 years, but I think it's more like 3 or 4.
2015, but that was start up mode. They've not been making products that you could buy for very long, they implied.
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@scottalanmiller said in Amazon acquires Eero, maker of mesh Wi-Fi routers:
@Dashrender said in Amazon acquires Eero, maker of mesh Wi-Fi routers:
@scottalanmiller said in Amazon acquires Eero, maker of mesh Wi-Fi routers:
Eero is one of the biggest players in the space? They are so new, and I certainly have never heard of them before. The article sounded like they had "just released" their first products. And talks about them in terms of investment size, not the size of the company. So calling them the biggest seems to go against the rest of the article where they seem like an "unrealized startup."
Eero has been around for at least 2 years, but I think it's more like 3 or 4.
2015, but that was start up mode. They've not been making products that you could buy for very long, they implied.
Pretty sure you've been able to buy them at Best Buy for the past 2 years.
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Eero's website claims to be the world's first home wifi system..... decades after all of us had home wifi systems.
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And it isn't a wifi system, its' an "all in one router / AP" like all the other consumer junk. So this can't be good stuff.
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Their website touts the "fastest setup in town" then talks about how it takes way longer than any normal consumer wifi system, certainly longer than Ubiquiti even when you have to update it manually.
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https://eero.com/shop/home-wifi-system
And it's not as cheap as the competitors.
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@coliver said in Amazon acquires Eero, maker of mesh Wi-Fi routers:
https://eero.com/shop/home-wifi-system
And it's not as cheap as the competitors.
It's hella expensive - just like the google mesh stuff.
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@Dashrender said in Amazon acquires Eero, maker of mesh Wi-Fi routers:
@coliver said in Amazon acquires Eero, maker of mesh Wi-Fi routers:
https://eero.com/shop/home-wifi-system
And it's not as cheap as the competitors.
It's hella expensive - just like the google mesh stuff.
Yeah, makes no sense.
