Meru Networks Reaches 50th Customer Deployment Milestone for 802.11n Wireless

Wayne State University to Provide High-speed 802.11n Access, More Than Doubling Capacity to 1,000 APs on its Main Campus
 

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Mar. 24, 2008 – Meru Networks has reached a milestone of 50 customer deployments of its award-winning IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN, an achievement reflecting the fast-growing adoption rate of this emerging high-performance technology just six months after the industry's first products began shipping. Products based on 802.11n allow wireless access at more than five times the speed of the legacy 802.11a/b/g standards.

The fiftieth customer, Wayne State University, has launched a year-long project to expand its wireless network to all classrooms, research buildings and libraries campus-wide, with Meru 802.11n products providing increased access (from 453 to 1,000 access points) and improved performance to users.

Meru and Wayne State will co-host a webinar March 27 at 11:00 a.m. Pacific time on "Creating an 802.11n Strategy That Makes Sense," in which Daniel Eklund of Wayne State's Computing & Information Technology group will share the university's Wi-Fi network deployment experiences. See http://www.merunetworks.com/waynewebinar for more information.

Meru CEO Ihab Abu-Hakima said, "Enterprises of all types are seeing a burgeoning demand for 802.11n as more and more client devices offer built-in 11n capability. At the same time those enterprises are becoming increasingly comfortable deploying 11n, sometimes as the primary or only networking technology in certain locales, because for the first time it puts wireless networking on a par with wired in terms of access speed and reliability. This is a major step on the road to the all-wireless enterprise."

The 50 Meru customers using 802.11n span a broad range of markets, including educational institutions (University of Miami, Morrisville State College), healthcare facilities (Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center), government agencies (Wyoming Judicial Branch) and major transportation hubs (Denver International Airport). Morrisville State College in central New York boasts the first fully-deployed, large-scale 802.11n deployment, with 720 access points covering 44 buildings, several agricultural facilities and a satellite campus. Meru also installed the first 802.11n network in Europe, at the Espergærde School in Denmark.

Meru's AP300 four-member access point family, the industry's most comprehensive suite of 802.11n products, includes the first wireless access point that can be upgraded from 802.11a/b/g to 802.11n with only a software update, giving enterprises an easy and cost-effective migration path to higher performance. The AP300 family uses Meru's Air Traffic Control™ technology to deliver full 802.11n draft 2.0 performance at the highest possible wireless client densities while offering complete backward compatibility with 802.11a/b/g devices. Like all Meru access points, members of the AP300 family automatically select a single channel span for use enterprise- or campus-wide, layering additional channel spans only when more capacity is required. This approach minimizes the potential for co-channel interference and eliminates the need for costly and time-consuming channel planning.

The AP300 product family received the 2007 Product of the Year award from Internet Telephony Magazine, which cited Meru as "committed to quality and excellence while addressing real needs in the marketplace."

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.