"Meraki, a Silicon Valley start-up company that has powered thousands of simple, inexpensive wireless networks around the world, began with a concept different from the single source 'hub-and-spoke' model of a network with a central source. Developed initially by students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States (US), it works on the theory of 'string[ing] together several small radios that bounce information from one to another. Instead of just radiating in a straight line, data can zigzag from box to box. That way, if one link breaks, the rest automatically reconfigure and find a different path for that e-mail or Web page to travel.'" Chris Gaylord, The Christian Science Monitor via the Communications Initiative iCT for Development portal, December 12, 2007.