Meru Networks Wins Internet Telephony Magazine's Product Of The Year Award For Fourth Time

Meru's 802.11n Enterprise Wireless LAN Offerings Recognized For Outstanding Innovation

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 23, 2008 – Meru Networks has announced that Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC) Internet Telephony Magazine has named its IEEE 802.11n family of wireless LAN products as a recipient of its tenth annual 2007 Product of the Year Award.

Introduced in April 2007, Meru's wireless LAN product suite based on the high-performance IEEE 802.11n draft standard includes the AP300 dual-radio access points, the MC5000 modular five-blade chassis controller for up to 1,000 access points, and a three-tier Traffic Distribution System to handle the increased network load driven by 802.11n. The unique channel-layering capability of Meru's architecture allows the product family to deliver sustained high wireless capacity throughout a wireless LAN deployment.

"802.11n has been called the most significant advance in the history of wireless LANs," said Rachna Ahlawat, Meru's vice president of strategic marketing. "As the first vendor to introduce 802.11n products and have them deployed by customers, we believe we have taken an important step toward realizing the all-wireless enterprise, where the wireless infrastructure becomes the accepted delivery mechanism for business-critical applications."

"Meru has proven they are committed to quality and excellence while addressing real needs in the marketplace," said Rich Tehrani, TMP president and Internet Telephony editor-in-chief. "Internet Telephony is pleased to grant a 2007 Product of the Year award to the Meru 802.11n product family. We're proud to honor their hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from Meru in the future."

The 2007 award makes Meru Networks a four-time winner of Internet Telephony's Product of the Year award. The company also has twice won the magazine's Internet Telephony Excellence award.
A full list of Product of the Year winners will be published in the February 2008 issue of Internet Telephony magazine.

Meru's unique Air Traffic Control™ architecture enables toll-quality voice on the wireless LAN, providing assured service quality and traffic classification in converged voice, video and data networks. Architected to handle large-scale enterprise networks, the system is used in one of the world's largest VoWLAN deployments, Osaka Gas of Japan, which uses more than 6,000 dual-mode cellular-Wi-Fi phones. Meru technology supports a wide variety of voice over Wi-Fi client devices, including Vocera, Avaya, Polycom/Spectralink, Ascom, Cisco and Nokia phones.
 
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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.