This is OnHub. It's a cylinder.
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Google made a Wi-Fi router. "OnHub" is a $200 cylinder that promises a "new way to Wi-Fi" with control via an app, frequent software updates, and additional radios for smart home functionality. This is Google's smart home hub.
The device supports not only 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, but also Bluetooth 4.0, and a few smart home protocols. One is Weave, The Android team's Internet of Things(IoT) communications layer that it announced at Google I/O alongside Brillo, it's Android-derived OS for IoT. It also supports Thread, an IoT wireless protocol created by Google's Nest Labs and Samsung. It supports IEEE 802.15.4, the basis for Zigbee, another IoT protocal that is popular in many devices. Smart home communications are kind of a mess right now, so Google's plans with OnHub seems to be to include support for a bunch of them in the hopes that it will be prepared in the future.
The device supports 2.4 and 5GHz Wi-Fi with some pretty beefy specs. OnHub has a dual-core 1.4GHz Qualcomm Atheros IPQ8064 with 1GB of RAM and 4GB of storage. With specs like this, we wouldn't be surprised to hear that this runs the Android-based Brillo OS. There's one USB 3.0 port and, surprisingly, a speaker. The big downside is the port selection. There's one ethernet port for you modem, one for a computer, and that's it. Everything else needs to connect via Wi-Fi.
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