MERU NETWORKS AND INOC UNWIRE RADIOLOGICAL
SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA (RSNA) ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Vendors Provide Wireless Services for World's Largest Temporary
Network
Sunnyvale, CA — December 1, 2006
Meru Networks, the global innovation leader in wireless
infrastructure for the All-Wireless Enterprise, and INOC, a
global provider of Network Operations Center (NOC) services,
today announced they will team to deliver wireless LAN (WLAN)
services for the 92nd annual Scientific Assembly and Annual
Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
Scheduled for November 26 - December 1 at the McCormick Place
Convention Center in Chicago, IL, RSNA's annual gathering is the
world's largest international medical meeting with attendees
including radiologists, allied health scientists, hospital
executives and healthcare consultants, from around the world.
iNOC is responsible for designing, building and managing RSNA
network (RSNAnet), the high-speed communications network that
supports the conference. Meru's WLAN System enables wireless hot
spots across the show floor allowing conference attendees and
exhibitors to easily exchange research and medical images,
access the Internet, send and receive e-mail, and perform other
tasks while on the show floor. Meru's WLAN controller and
dual-mode access points will be deployed throughout the
McCormick Place Convention Center, spanning multiple exhibit
halls, across two million square feet.
"The 2005 RSNAnet using Meru Networks' Wireless LAN System was
very successful in this challenging, conference environment,"
said Dave Pede, director of IT at RSNA. "We were pleased with
the excellent Quality of Service, scalability and predictable
performance Meru's WLAN System demonstrated and are expecting
this year's exhibitors and attendees to have an equally positive
experience."
"Meru's WLAN System is a great choice for supporting the
challenging high user-density networking requirements of the
RSNA Conference," said Rick Smith, vice president of
engineering, iNOC. "Meru's Air Traffic Control technology
manages RF contention with sophisticated traffic controls to
deliver predictable and fair performance to a large number of
users."
"Our WLAN System delivers reliable, wired-quality voice and high
performance data in challenging, high density environments,"
said Lisa Schiltz, senior director of corporate marketing, Meru
Networks. "We're pleased to once again be part of this prominent
industry event and to have the opportunity to showcase our WLAN
System."
About iNOC
iNOC provides Network Operations Center (NOC) services for
Enterprises and Service Providers that need to reduce costly
downtime of their IT and Telecommunications Infrastructure.
iNOC's clients are concerned about lack of standard procedures
and processes, information security and disaster recovery and
look for a 24x7x365 monitoring and management solution that is
delivered by an experienced team. iNOC offers a reliable, secure
and cost-effective management solution by leveraging tightly
integrated proprietary software tools, processes and redundant
24x7x365 NOCs to help Enterprises and Service Providers
accomplish their strategic objectives and achieve industry
compliance. For more information, visit www.inoc.com or call
(847) 714-9909 x104.
About Meru Networks
Meru Networks is the global leader in wireless infrastructure
solutions that enable the All-Wireless Enterprise. Its industry
leading innovations deliver pervasive, wireless service fidelity
for business-critical applications to major Fortune 500
enterprises, universities, healthcare organizations and local,
state and federal government agencies. Meru's award-winning Air
Traffic Control technology brings the benefits of the cellular
world to the wireless LAN environment, and its WLAN System is
the only solution on the market that delivers predictable
bandwidth and over-the-air Quality of Service with the
reliability, scalability, and security necessary to deliver
converged voice and data services over a single WLAN
infrastructure. Founded in 2002, Meru is based in Sunnyvale,
California. For more information on Meru Networks and its
products, visit www.merunetworks.com or call (408) 215-5300.