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1. Overall-- this can, theoretically speaking, integrate all- WiFi IoT, Zigbee IoT, Thread IoT, Weave IoT. Whichever way the market picks-up, Google can.

2. On top of that, the specs are good enough to stream multiple IP cams.

3​. Shot in the dark, but with all the "six 2.4GHz antennas, six 5GHz antennas, and a congestion-sensing antenna"​ they're probably trying to fix the classical WiFi congestion and star-topology range issues that comes with WiFi IoT. Especially because it supports 128 devices in WiFi. ​ 4. Rumors are, it already runs Brillo, their IoT OS they showcased at IO.​ ​ 5. Its bridge mode support be something they can use to have "multiple BRs" as promised by Thread? ​

[4] http://nextmarket.co/blogs/smarthomeweekly/29309313-google-i... [5] https://support.google.com/onhub/answer/6275097?vid=1-635755...