Meru Networks Wins 'Red Herring 100 Global' Award

Wireless LAN Innovator Named to List of World's Top 100 Tech Startups

 

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-- January 17, 2008 - Meru Networks has been named as a winner of the Red Herring 100 Global Award, joining the ranks of past winners Google, Skype and YouTube on the magazine's annual list of the world's top 100 technology startups.

According to the Red Herring web site, the magazine's editorial team surveyed entrepreneurship in thousands of privately-held companies around the globe to arrive at the Red Herring 100, a list regarded by executives, investors and observers as "an invaluable instrument to discover and advocate the promising startups that will lead the next wave of disruption and innovation." Candidates were evaluated on criteria ranging from financial performance, innovation and management to global strategy and ecosystem integration.

"It is a true honor to be recognized by Red Herring as one of the top global startups," said Ihab Abu-Hakima, Meru CEO. "Our commitment to wireless innovation and excellence is reflected in a wide variety of offerings, including the market's first enterprise-grade 802.11n wireless LAN products."

Meru's award-winning Air Traffic Control™ technology provides the performance, reliability and security that are critical in the most demanding wireless environments. Unlike the "micro cell" approach of legacy wireless LAN designs – which assign different channels to adjacent cells of the network – Meru's unique "virtual cell" approach automatically selects a single channel for use enterprise-wide, maximizing network performance and quality of service while accelerating and simplifying deployments. With this zero-handoff technology, mobile devices need not switch channels when roaming, so users and applications have a guaranteed, uninterrupted connection.

About Red Herring
Red Herring is a global media company uniting the world's best high-technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine; an online daily technology news service; technology research; and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider's access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy. For more information, visit www.redherring.com.

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.