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 develops and markets 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, Calif. For more information, visit www.merunetworks.com
or call (408) 215-5300.
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