Meter named a Visionary in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN
Recognized for Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision
For the second consecutive year, Meter has been recognized as a Visionary in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN. We're 10 years into building Meter, and we're humbled by the recognition.
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Networking has been pieced together for so long that most IT leaders have stopped expecting anything different, and we're betting they will. In our view, this recognition tells us the market is ready for a different model.
A generational shift is underway
Enterprise networking is on the edge of a generational shift. Network usage has roughly doubled every few years, and it's set to grow even faster as AI workloads scale and more devices come online. With more than $90 billion of enterprise networks currently up for renewal, IT teams have a window to evaluate new operating models.
As Gartner noted in its report, “enterprise buyers increasingly evaluate LAN platforms as long-term operating environments rather than isolated infrastructure purchases.” The industry is moving toward solutions that are simpler to manage, easier to deploy, and built for the long term. This is the moment that defines the next decade of enterprise networking.
The legacy model is broken
For too long, IT teams have been stuck running their networks on fragmented systems. Hardware from one vendor, software from another, operations often duct-taped together, ISP connectivity bought and managed separately. When something breaks, somebody has to coordinate across vendors, installers, carriers, and support teams to put it back together, and that somebody is usually an IT or network engineer.
That legacy model is expensive to run and painful to operate. It leaves network engineers stuck in low-level troubleshooting, compatibility, and configuration issues instead of the work that actually moves the business forward.
Meter was built as a single, unified operating system
In the opening of the report, Gartner states, “The enterprise wired and wireless LAN market is increasingly defined by operational outcomes rather than features. Vendor innovation investments are focused on AI to deliver more secure and more autonomous networks that reduce operational effort and perform consistently over time.” In our view, Meter is a vertically integrated networking company designed to do exactly that. Hardware, software, services, ISP, and autonomous networks—designed together and delivered for one predictable price. Our 99.6% customer retention rate reflects the durability of our model.
Built for autonomous networks
The future of networking is autonomous networks: networks that detect problems early, correct them without human intervention, and continuously improve using real operational data. Getting there takes control of the entire stack, from hardware and software to AI and a single data pipeline.
This year alone, we shipped nine new hardware platforms: Wi-Fi 7 access points, multi-gig switches, firewalls (including a 50 Gbps WAN firewall), and an external 5G gateway—all designed, built, and tested by Meter. Together, they deliver over 3× the throughput of leading legacy options, 3× faster installation, and roughly half the total cost of ownership. Meter upgrades every customer to the latest generation at no additional cost.
On top of that hardware runs Command, our generative UI built specifically for networking. Command is integrated directly into Meter Support and Operations, trained on real telemetry from the networks we run, including tens of millions of square feet across the US, Canada, and Europe. When a ticket comes in, Command analyzes live network signals, recommends actions, and cuts time-to-resolution by up to 90%. It also designs and configures customer networks end-to-end, deploying roughly 2× faster than legacy vendors.
Hardware, software, AI, and the data they produce, built together, improving together. This is what makes autonomous networks possible, and what we believe is the foundation behind our placement in this year's Magic Quadrant.
We're just getting started
We've spent the past decade rethinking how networking should work. When you change how packets move through the world, you change what's possible for people to build.
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About Gartner and the Magic Quadrant
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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Wired and Wireless LAN, Mike Leibovitz, Christian Canales, Tim Zimmerman, May 18, 2026.
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