| Website | merunetworks.com |
| Category | Mobile/Wireless |
| Phone | +1 (408) 215-5300 |
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| Founded | 2002 |
| Description | wireless infrastructure solutions |
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, California.
Since the first 802.11b standard products shipped in 1999, the market has evolved from standalone access points and NICs deployed by early adopters and company departments to support casual data applications like web and email. As usage grew, the industry was challenged to add enterprise-class security and better management, first using controllers of distributed networks of independent access points, and then giving way to a third-generation approach using thin APs and edge controllers. Most of today’s major vendors, including Meru Networks, offer customers these third generation solutions that work well for providing secure wireless access in casual data applications.
Going forward, however, usage models are shifting significantly from casual data application access for a few users, to high-density usage throughout companies or university lecture halls, and deployments involving mission-critical applications that combine high-capacity data with wireless VoIP, asset tracking or even video in retail, manufacturing, and healthcare environments. These pervasive mission-critical mobility applications spurred Meru to develop its fourth generation solution utilizing networks of coordinated APs, working together in virtual cells, operating on a single-channel span that may be layered to add capacity on demand. Meru’s solution was recognized by Gartner, which ranked the company as the most visionary infrastructure provider in its 2006 WLAN Magic Quadrant report. Any CIO considering an initial WLAN deployment, or an expansion of an existing one—even if initially for casual data usage—must look closely at their plans for mobile applications and user density, and match those requirements to the system in which they invest today.
