""We love moving packets," declared Anil Varanasi, CEO and co-founder of Meter, on a stage overlooking San Francisco Bay at the networking startup's annual networking event. He continued, "This crowd probably knows this intimately, but everything in the world is packets. Regardless of what type of work you do, it is just packets all the way down." It would only be a few minutes before a container ship traveled by, heading beneath the Bay Bridge."
"Networking is a matter of some concern for Varanasi, who warned that the number of networking engineers is declining even as the number of networks, devices, and the amount of data is rising. Meter aims to compensate with better networking, in part through AI, though the company wisely minimizes its use of that term. It's promising autonomous networks by 2026."
Meter is a decade-old privately held company offering a vertically integrated networking-as-a-service that spans hardware, firmware, an operating system, software, APIs, and AI models. The company focuses on automating the three core networking functions: designing networks, configuring networks, and managing networks, targeting autonomous networks by 2026. The company frames automation as a response to a declining number of networking engineers alongside rising numbers of networks, devices, and data. The company emphasizes measured use of AI, positions its full-stack approach against established vendors, and recently raised $170 million in Series C funding to expand its offering.
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