When setting out to build Meter, one thing was abundantly clear: the industry didn’t need another point solution. Instead, we wanted to build an incredibly performant, reliable, and secure networking solution, with zero upfront costs or licensing fees. This structure ensures our incentives are tightly aligned with our customers’ — because we’re taking on the capital risk, we’re on the hook for providing great products and services that continue to delight our customers and earn their business. We’re not looking to sell a box of hardware at a steep margin. We want to sell great networks that enable networking and IT professionals to uplevel their own workflows, and in turn, the operating capacity of their entire organization.
Why Meter?
As network engineers, we noticed that the networking industry had stagnated—great products were no longer being built. We founded Meter to address this stagnation, streamlining today’s disparate systems, product complexities, and poor user experience. We aimed to build a unified network stack of highly performant hardware, software, and operations for IT and networking teams.
As you all know well, IT teams are tasked with the increasingly difficult job of keeping every system and employee online and productive, and we didn’t feel that the networking products of the last decade were conducive to this growing responsibility. The full-stack architecture that we deliver—from ISP procurement and management, routing, switching, Wi-Fi, Cellular, and the applications and software layered on top—is purpose-built to give them ultimate control over their networks.
Hardware + Software + Operations = Great outcomes
Across our entire stack, we’re building around four core tenants: performance, reliability, scalability, and security. At the heart of it all lies our Network Operating System (NOS), which unifies our entire technical architecture across hardware, software, firmware, APIs, and security. Our latest iteration, NOS 10, allows us to achieve operational efficiency and rapid innovation.
NOS 10 is not just firmware for individual devices and hardware, it’s firmware for your networks, and it’s managed through a single pane of glass. This allows us to continuously deliver new software and purpose-built hardware, gain fast and effective feedback, deploy advanced automation, depreciate older technology, and finally, build powerful new tools like our generative UI, Meter Command. We launched Meter Command last year to enable teams to more efficiently work through routine operations and execute complex tasks, saving them time and resources.
Our vertical integration requires consistent and tightly integrated feedback loops across our hardware, software, and operations, and enables us to deliver great outcomes to our customers. We’re relentlessly focused on delivering a modern networking solution that’s consistent, accessible, and interconnected across the entire stack. We’re certainly not the first networking company, but with continued feedback and alignment from our customers, partners, internal teams, and community, we hope to be the last ever built.
If you have any feedback or thoughts on our products and services, we’d love to hear from you at hello@meter.com. Interested in hearing directly from our team? Watch our latest on-demand videos from our conference, MeterUp.
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