SUNNYVALE, California,
March 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Meru
Networks Inc. (http://www.merunetworks.com/) (Nasdaq: MERU), a
leader in virtualized 802.11n enterprise wireless networking, today
announced a strategic partnership with Azlan, the Enterprise
Division of Tech Data Corporation (http://www.techdata.com/) and
the largest distributor of IT infrastructure reaching over 100,000
IT solution providers throughout Europe. Through this partnership, Azlan now
expands its IT portfolio with Meru's virtualized wireless LAN
(WLAN) solutions to deliver specialized value-added solutions to
its extensive base of resellers. This partnership enables Azlan's
value-added resellers (VARs) to differentiate themselves with
Meru's best-in-class virtualized WLAN solutions for their customers
to meet connectivity, mobility and density requirements and address
the growing demand fueled by the explosion of iPads, iPhones and
other mobile wireless devices throughout Europe to help enterprises avoid a Wi-Fi
Meltdown(TM)
(http://www.merunetworks.com/microsites/meltdown/index.php).
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Enterprises across Europe are
demanding higher service levels, and businesses are quickly
realizing that microcell wireless products are not reliable, secure
or scalable enough to meet their mission-critical needs.
Europe is now one of Meru's
fastest growing markets as organizations are modernizing legacy
WLAN implementations with Meru's reliable and complete virtualized
WLAN solutions to transform their organization to an All-Wireless
Enterprise(TM).
Key Facts
- Azlan now offers powerful 802.11n WLAN solutions, showcasing
Meru's award-winning high-performance AP300 Series
(http://www.merunetworks.com/ps/accesspoints/ap300.php)and entry-level
AP1000i (http://www.merunetworks.com/ps/accesspoints/ap1000i.php)
access points. The AP300 Series is ideally suited for highly dense
environments and bandwidth intensive applications where a large number
of client devices such as the iPad, iPhone and other mobile devices
converge on a given area. Meru's AP1000i entry-level WLAN solution is
designed to ease the deployment and management, while delivering
reliability and cost savings for extended enterprise and branch office
customers.
- In Spain, for example, the regional government of the Catalunya
region, Generalitat de Catalunya, launched Project EDUCAT 1X1, a one
child, one PC program for 3,200 schools. During the installation of the
first 177 schools, the legacy microcell solution could not handle the
density requirements. Severe contention between the 2-3 access points
per classroom resulted in failed connections as the students tried
to login simultaneously. Through Tech Data's reseller, LYNTEL, Meru
deployed its virtualized WLAN solution which virtualizes bandwidth,
then distributes dedicated bandwidth to each client device. After the
first installation, the Generalitat de Catalunya was amazed that
simultaneous logins just worked. The customer is now leading the
transformation of wireless across the Catalunya Region, rolling out
Meru at 170 schools thus far, with hundreds of additional schools
pending installation.
- Enhanced by Meru's unique Service Assurance Management Suite
(http://www.merunetworks.com/ps/ezrf/index.php), IT managers have the
management, security and diagnostic tools they need to predictively and
proactively manage and optimize the end-to-end performance of the
entire WLAN infrastructure. Azlan's resellers will have the ability to
offer users reliable and seamless mobility, despite the constant strain
that an increasing number of applications and devices have placed on
wireless environments.
- 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(TM) demonstration
(http://www.merunetworks.com/technology/resources/videos/index.php),
with over 500 wireless devices in a 500-square-foot area streaming
voice, video and data concurrently and delivering full quality of
service whether mobile or stationary.
Supporting Quotes
Steve Cant, European business
development director, Azlan (Tech Data's Enterprise Division)
"Meru brings an added dimension to Azlan's wireless networking
portfolio. It enables us to offer our reseller customers throughout
Europe an additional range of
options, especially in the growing field of virtualized wireless
solutions. Meru is one of the leading experts in this area and we
will be working closely with them to ensure that VARs and
integrators can meet the requirements of customers that operate in
the most bandwidth-intensive environments and need the very best
and most consistent performance available."
David Kelly, vice president,
international sales, Meru Networks
"This partnership enables organizations across Europe to experience the real performance,
security and reliability benefits that Meru's virtualized WLAN
technology can bring, offering reliable and seamless mobility, even
in wireless environments that have had a spike in mobile device
proliferation. Looking ahead with this new relationship, we will
continue to aggressively expand our partner program geographically
across Europe with plans to
further penetrate key vertical markets."
About Meru Networks
Founded in 2002, Meru Networks develops and markets 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 education, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing and
retail. Meru is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., and has operations in the
Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asia
Pacific. For more information, visit
http://www.merunetworks.com or call +1-408-215-5300.
About Azlan
Azlan, the Enterprise Division of Tech Data Corporation, is a
specialized value-added distributor of networking, communications,
midrange enterprise server, storage and software solutions in
Europe. We enable fast,
cost-effective pan-European distribution of products and solutions
for market leaders such as VMware, IBM, HP, VMware and Oracle.
Azlan provides a variety of other value creating services including
channel development, marketing and sales support, training and
certification, and finance programs designed to assist vendor and
reseller partners in developing their SME and mid market
opportunities at http://www.azlan.com. Azlan continues to build on
its 25 year history of excellence, now as part of Tech Data, which
acquired Azlan in March 2003. Tech
Data generated $24.1 billion in net
sales for its fiscal year ended January 31,
2009. Founded in 1974, Tech Data (Nasdaq: TECD) is a leading
distributor of IT products, with more than 100,000 customers in
over 100 countries. http://www.techdata.com
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, the inability for microcell users to
avoid Wi-Fi meltdowns, the ability to expand Meru's partner program
across Europe and penetrate key
vertical markets. 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
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to Meru Networks as of the date hereof, and Meru Networks assumes
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