SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Meru Networks, Inc.
(Nasdaq: MERU), the leader in 802.11n virtualized wireless LAN
solutions for enterprise networking, today announced that it has
been awarded two new patents for its groundbreaking innovation
addressing Layer 2 network congestion collapse in 802.11n wireless
LANs (WLANs). Users that introduce iPads, iPhones and other
wireless devices in the enterprise expect an interactive experience
while accessing their latency-sensitive voice, high-bandwidth video
and data applications, regardless of the number of mobile devices
on the Wi-Fi network. However, existing rate adaptation
technologies often lead to significant reduction in the network
speed experienced by users. The rate adaptation frameworks and
methods covered in Meru's Patent no. 7,808,908 and Patent no.
7,756,059 enable the delivery of critical enterprise applications
at the optimal transmission rate for each device, taking into
account network congestion, loss rate of the channel, and the
distance and mobile or stationary state of the device. Solutions
that do not properly take these critical factors into account
typically force the network to operate at the wrong data rate;
which, as the number of mobile devices proliferates on the wireless
network, causes it to struggle with high-congestion, dropped
connections and potential network collapse. Incorporated into their
virtualized WLAN suite of solutions, Meru's innovative rate
adaptation technology addresses Layer 2 congestion collapse for
wireless networks by dynamically transmitting at the optimum data
rate, which results in higher throughput, providing enterprises
with a high performance solution that supports increasingly dense
environments and helps organizations avoid a Wi-Fi Meltdown™.
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Key Facts
- 802.11n implementations use rate adaptation to determine the
highest data rate at which a given device can transmit, based on
their position relative to an access point. However, this approach
is not effective in dense environments, mistaking network
congestion for distance and causing devices to take more time to
transmit the same amount of data, slashing network capacity to
fractions of what the network was designed to handle.
- These two new patent awards further validate Meru's leadership
in innovation. Meru's previously announced Patent no. 7,826,426,
which highlighted Meru's Virtual Port™ innovation, was invented to
address wireless network congestion. Specifically, its patented
Virtual Port technology provides wired switch-like bandwidth
optimization and security for enterprises that increasingly need to
manage environments with a growing density of iPads, iPhones and
similar next-generation Smartphone devices, such as Android-based
devices.
- Meru's core technology and virtualized architecture is
purpose-built to support the proliferation of wireless devices and
applications and, more critically, to help avoid Wi-Fi Meltdowns,
as demonstrated with Meru's WLAN 500™ demonstration. With over 500
wireless devices in a 500 square foot area, Meru's wireless network
solution streamed voice, video and data concurrently and delivered
full quality of service to all devices, whether mobile or
stationary.
Supporting Quotes
Zeus Kerravala, senior vice
president and research fellow, Yankee Group
"The mandate for today's CIO has changed more than any other
C-level executive over the past five years. Organizations are
looking to their IT departments to help make workers more
productive while lowering the cost of IT. The move to an
All-Wireless Enterprise™ is one current IT trend that can achieve
both goals. While this vision has been on the horizon for years,
the technology to support it has not been available until now. With
Meru, customers now have a virtualized WLAN technology solution to
achieve a competitive advantage."
Joe Epstein, senior director,
technology, Meru Networks
"Wi-Fi Meltdowns are caused in large part by wireless devices
doing the wrong things when the network gets congested, even if
they do the right things in lightly loaded environments. As the
number of wireless devices such as iPads and smartphones converge
on a given area, Meru's innovative signal-to-noise rate adaptation
intelligently restores airtime fairness – overcoming the flaws
associated with 802.11n implementations and avoiding a Wi-Fi
Meltdown. As the leader in 802.11n innovation, Meru again
demonstrates how our products are designed from the ground up to
avoid the problems of scale-out wireless networking that legacy
microcell technology has not been able to address."
About Meru Networks
Founded in 2002, Meru Networks provides a virtualized wireless
LAN solution that cost-effectively optimizes the enterprise network
to deliver the performance, reliability, predictability and
operational simplicity of a wired network, with the advantages of
mobility. Meru's solution represents an innovative approach to
wireless networking that utilizes virtualization technology to
create an intelligent and self-monitoring wireless network, and
enables enterprises to migrate their business-critical applications
from wired networks to wireless networks, and become all-wireless
enterprises. Meru's solutions have been adopted in major industry
vertical markets, including Fortune 500 enterprises, healthcare,
education, retail, manufacturing, hospitality and government. Meru
is headquartered in Sunnyvale,
Calif., and has operations in the Americas, Europe, the Middle
East and Asia Pacific. For
more information, visit www.merunetworks.com or call (408)
215-5300.
This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding
Meru Networks expectations, hopes, plans, intentions or strategies,
including, but not limited to statements regarding Meru's ability
to avoid a Wi-Fi meltdown, the rise in client density, the increase
demand for WLAN capacity and the inability for microcell users to
avoid Wi-Fi meltdowns. These forward-looking statements involve
risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they do
not fully materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results
to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties include
those described in Meru Networks' documents filed with or furnished
to the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking
statements in this press release are based on information available
to Meru Networks as of the date hereof, and Meru Networks assumes
no obligation to update these forward-looking statements.
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