Unstrung cites anonymous industry sources over Cisco's plans to enter the mesh market: If it's a big market in networking, we know Cisco will buy its way in. Their Airespace acquisition gave them a dominant position in switched and standalone enterprise WLANs; a mesh product from the Airespace team could be quite interesting. Unstrung notes that Metricom's Ricochet network architect works for Cisco by way of the acquisition.