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// ABOUT

The networking company
that grew up at the edge.

20 years of patented SD-WAN and broadband bonding. Now extended to AI traffic governance. Built by Mushroom Networks, San Diego.

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FOUNDED: 2004
ORIGIN: UC San Diego networking research spin-off
HQ: San Diego, California
TEAM_R&D: Many decades of combined experience
PATENTS: SD-WAN, broadband bonding
INDUSTRIES: broadcast, healthcare, government, enterprise, retail
PRODUCT: Caged AI — SD-WAN + AI API governance appliance

We started with a question: why does a business with four internet connections still lose connectivity when one ISP blinks?

In 2004, our founding team at UC San Diego turned that question into Mushroom Networks and a patented broadband bonding approach that treats every available link as part of a single self-healing fabric. Over two decades, that technology shipped into live broadcast trucks, hospital networks, retail chains, and government agencies.

Our engineering team carries decades of combined R&D experience in networking. We hold patents in SD-WAN and broadband bonding. We have earned the trust of organizations where downtime is measured in lost revenue and endangered lives.

Now we are launching Caged AI — the same networking expertise, now extended to route, audit, and govern AI API traffic. One box, one dashboard, one policy plane for your WAN and your LLMs.

// WHAT WE BELIEVE

Not slogans. Convictions.

The edge is the new perimeter
Security, performance, and AI governance all happen where traffic starts, not in a distant cloud.
Reliability is not a feature
It is the product. Everything else is marketing until the link stays up.
Complexity is a bug
One box should do what three vendors promise. If it needs a manual, we are not done.
Your AI works for someone else
Every cloud LLM is employed by another company. Govern what you send it the same way you'd govern what you email a third party.
// MILESTONES
2004
spin-off
Founded from UCSD networking research
2006
first patent
Broadband bonding prototype — record consumer speeds
2010
scale
Broadcast, healthcare, and government deployments
2016
sd-wan
Self-healing overlay tunnel platform
2026
caged ai
SD-WAN meets AI governance at the edge

20 years of trust.
Your network, next.

One appliance. One site. One month to see the difference.

// trusted by
ESPN
Marriott
Kaiser Permanente
Lockheed Martin
NASA
Cornell University
NASCAR
U.S. Army