Tagged: wifi
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Cisco
The company that quietly wired the internet is now betting its next chapter on securing and connecting the machines that run artificial intelligence.
Sam Heidari
Dr. Sam Heidari is the CEO of Lumotive, a Redmond, Washington semiconductor company building programmable, all-silicon lidar chips based on its patented Light Control Metasurface technology. An electrical engineer with a PhD from USC and more than 40 patents, Heidari previously ran Wi-Fi chipmaker Quantenna Communications, taking it from zero revenue to a 2016 IPO and a roughly $1 billion sale to ON Semiconductor in 2019. He now serves on and chairs several technology boards and is turning Lumotive's software-defined optics from a lab breakthrough into mass-produced 3D sensing hardware.
Aerwave
Aerwave is a Texas-based proptech company that designs, deploys and operates next-generation managed Wi-Fi for multifamily residential communities. It delivers property-wide, gigabit-speed internet that is secure and always on, paired with 24/7 domestic support, an owner analytics dashboard, and a capital program that lets property owners deploy infrastructure with no upfront cost. Aerwave works exclusively with real estate owners, developers and operators across the multifamily, build-to-rent, single-family rental and student-housing markets.
Extreme Networks
Extreme Networks is a Nasdaq-listed enterprise networking company that designs wired and wireless infrastructure - switches, Wi-Fi access points and SD-WAN - and pairs it with cloud-managed, AI-driven software. Built around ExtremeCloud IQ and the newer Extreme Platform ONE, the company delivers cloud and increasingly AI-native networking to more than 50,000 customers worldwide, from NFL stadiums and hospitals to schools, factories and retailers. Headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina, it competes with Cisco, HPE Aruba, Juniper and Arista by pitching a single, simpler platform that unifies networking, security and analytics.
LinkSure Network
LinkSure Network is the mobile-internet company behind WiFi Master Key (now WiFi Master, at wifi.com), a peer-to-peer app that lets people find and connect to shared Wi-Fi hotspots for free. Founded in 2013 in Shanghai by serial entrepreneur Chen Danian and later headquartered with an overseas base in Singapore, the app grew into one of the world's most-used utilities, reaching roughly 800-900 million users at its peak. LinkSure layers cloud security detection, encrypted tunnels and machine-learning risk scoring on top of the connection experience, and monetizes primarily through in-app advertising and content.
Relay2 Inc.
Relay2 Inc. is a Milpitas, California networking company that builds Wi-Fi access points with computing and storage baked in. Its patented ServiceEdge Platform and Service Point devices let businesses and managed service providers run applications at the network edge - on-premises, close to where data is created - instead of shuttling everything to the cloud. Founded in 2011 by Eric Chen, Relay2 targets retail, education, manufacturing, transportation and MSPs that want to lower the total cost of deploying enterprise-class WLAN while unlocking new edge services.
KoreLock
KoreLock is a Denver-based IoT smart lock technology company that gives lock manufacturers and access control providers a turnkey, patented platform - embedded firmware, custom PCBAs, mobile and web apps, and cloud APIs - to turn ordinary offline locks into Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connected devices. Rather than competing with lock makers or software companies, KoreLock positions itself as the interoperability bridge between hardware and access control software, with technology already embedded in tens of thousands of devices across 65+ countries.
Plume
Plume is a Palo Alto-based software company that turns home and small-business WiFi into a managed, self-optimizing service. Its cloud platform - delivered through internet service providers rather than direct to consumers - uses machine learning to continuously tune connectivity, secure connected devices, and layer on consumer apps like parental controls, motion-sensing, and guest access. Built on the open-source OpenSync framework, Plume powers tens of millions of locations and more than a billion connected devices worldwide for operators including Comcast, Charter, Liberty Global, and Vodafone.
SIMO
SIMO is a San Francisco mobile-connectivity company whose patented virtual SIM (vSIM) lets devices roam across 300+ carriers in 140+ countries with no physical SIM card. Founded in 2009 as Skyroam, it now powers the Solis line of pocket hotspots for consumers and an embedded chipset/cloud platform used by enterprises, automakers and IoT fleets.
Ed Meyercord
Ed Meyercord is President, CEO, and Director of Extreme Networks (NASDAQ: EXTR), a publicly traded enterprise networking company with 2,700 employees and over $1.1 billion in annual revenue. He took the helm in April 2015 after serving as Chairman of the board since 2011, steering Extreme from a hardware-centric also-ran into a cloud-managed, AI-native networking platform. Under his watch the company now powers the wireless networks at Old Trafford, the Burj Khalifa, Taylor Swift concert tours, and Samsung's global operations, while its SaaS ARR has grown dramatically. Before Extreme, Meyercord ran Talk America (a publicly traded telco), Cavalier Telephone, and Critical Alert Systems, after starting his career as an investment banking VP at Salomon Brothers. He is also known for bringing improv comedy principles into corporate leadership and for his advocacy for people with intellectual disabilities through SKIT Programs.
Hannah Greenberg
Hannah Greenberg is the CEO of Eleven Software, the cloud-based Wi-Fi authentication platform powering connectivity for 25,000+ hotel properties across 140+ countries - processing over 10 billion authentications per year for brands like Hilton, Marriott, Accor, and Wyndham. She acquired Eleven in 2022 through a search fund she built after her MBA at UC Berkeley Haas, then led the 2023 acquisition of UK-based Airangel to create the world's leading hospitality Wi-Fi management company. A Cornell Hotel School alumna with roots in PwC consulting and $1 billion in hotel development at Seaview Investors, Greenberg brings the rare combination of an owner-operator's instinct and a technologist's ambition to one of hospitality's most infrastructure-critical categories.
Lihua Zhu
Lihua Zhu is the CEO of WiFi Master Key at LinkSure Network, a Singapore-headquartered mobile internet company serving hundreds of millions of users globally with free, secure Wi-Fi connectivity. With a career spanning Princeton research labs, Microsoft engineering, Alibaba's DingTalk, and Momo Technology, Zhu brings a rare combination of deep academic research and large-scale operational execution to one of the world's most widely used connectivity apps.
Nick Weaver
Nick Weaver is the co-founder and CEO of eero, the company that reimagined home Wi-Fi with the world's first whole-home mesh networking system. A Stanford-trained engineer turned McKinsey consultant turned venture capitalist, Weaver quit Menlo Ventures in 2014 to fix the router - a problem he'd been wrestling with since he was a kid setting up networks for neighbors in Chicago. He sold $2.5 million of product in two weeks, landed in 600 Best Buy stores within two years, and delivered eero to Amazon in a $97 million acquisition in 2019. He now leads eero as VP of Devices & Services under Amazon, where the mission is unchanged: make the technology in homes just work.