Earlier this year, our team received a thrilling piece of news: Meter was awarded the Red Dot Award for Best Networking Product Design.
The Red Dot is one of the world's most prestigious design awards, and it went to our first generation of hardware. We're a hardware company at our core, so this one means a lot.
When I started at Meter, we made a conscious choice to pivot away from the traditional hardware blueprints of legacy networking companies. Instead, we chose to design networking equipment for outcomes. Leaning into our unique business model and building devices that are always intended to work cohesively together.
From cradle to grave, we control every single aspect of the product. We sketch concepts by hand on 10-foot rolls of paper, prototype in-house, and own every layer down to the board layout, thermals, and airflow. Anyone on our hardware team can walk you through not just a device's specs, but the late nights and breakthroughs behind it.
Saman and I accepted the award in Essen, Germany, at the Red Dot Design Museum — our work on display alongside Apple, Lamborghini, and Ferrari. At one point we were standing beside roughly $10M in supercars, chatting with the head of a major European telecom carrier, and I realized this is exactly where Meter belongs.
This win is a massive milestone, but it is far from our endgame. We want to lead the industry and build beautiful hardware that changes the way we connect the world.