SUNNYVALE, Calif. and
MELBOURNE, Australia, March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Meru Networks
(NASDAQ: MERU) and its Australian distributor Wavelink today
announced expansion plans in the Australian region with the
addition of a dedicated team of Meru technical sales professionals
comprising territory account managers and sales engineers. Meru and
Wavelink will bring Meru's advanced wireless solutions, easy to
deploy and manage, to enterprises that are attempting to support
the thousands of devices that are flooding their enterprises.
The team will focus on target markets including education,
healthcare, enterprise, government and hospitality.
The team will work with end-customers in the design and
implementation of Meru virtualized wireless WLANs that give IT
managers an important degree of choice in deploying their mobility
infrastructure. Wavelink's existing resellers located in
Melbourne and Sydney will co-sell Meru WLAN solutions and
lead network implementations in the K-12, healthcare, hospitality
and enterprise markets. In addition, Wavelink will extend
engineering and inside sales support out of the Sydney office.
These sales and engineering support capabilities are being added
in the Australian market during a period of high growth for
wireless network technology in the region. Since forming the
initial partnership with Meru in 2009, Wavelink's sales of Meru's
products have grown dramatically and the company is on track to
increase its sales of Meru solutions by more than 50 percent
year-over-year. Customers from a variety of vertical industries
have turned to Wavelink and Meru for WLAN solutions, including:
James Cook University, the leading independent school in
Haileybury; Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), Australia's largest stadium and the world's
largest cricket arena; Langham Hotels in Melbourne and Auckland, recognized as two of the Top 25
Luxury Hotels in the South Pacific; Regis, one of Australia's largest providers of aged care
services; and Beca Engineering.
David Kelly, vice president of
international sales for Meru Networks, said, "Meru and Wavelink
have achieved fantastic results over the last two years as they
have helped customers address the challenge of accommodating of the
influx of Wi-Fi devices entering their environment daily. Working
together we will jointly deliver solutions across the key vertical
industries in Australia."
Meru's industry-leading integrated WLAN solutions are designed
to deliver the scale, capacity, security and manageability
necessitated by the BYOD phenomenon. Meru solutions are engineered
from the ground up to be simple to use, easy to manage and provide
a rapid return on investment as enterprises build out their
wireless networks.
Secure BYOD Access with Minimal IT Overhead
In addition to other products, Meru and Wavelink will bring
Meru's guest management solutions to Australian companies, greatly
simplifying network access and management for wired and wireless
environments. Meru Smart Connect, an optional feature for Identity
Manager, is designed for the most dense and diverse environments
where guest access is stressing the capacity of IT departments.
Smart Connect enables automatic detection of devices as they
connect to the wireless LAN and provides simple configuration for
secure guest access across all operating systems including Windows,
iOS, Android and Mac OS. It features one-click self-provisioning of
devices in accordance with IT security policies. Identity Manager
provides common functionality across wired and wireless
environments, and supports multi-vendor wireless LAN
environments.
"Our products provide best-in-class wireless connectivity for
large-scale environments where BYOD is the norm," continued Kelly.
"Our solutions are designed specifically for the rigors of BYOD,
simplifying WLAN management and minimizing IT overhead. We're
thrilled to be working with such a great partner as we bring these
solutions to this market."
To learn more, take a tour of our WLAN solutions at Meru.
Additional resources can be found at Access Point, the Meru blog,
and Twitter.
About Meru Networks
Meru Networks (NASDAQ: MERU) sells virtualized wireless LAN
solutions that provide enterprises with the performance,
reliability, predictability and operational simplicity of a wired
network with the advantages of mobility. Meru's innovative
network-in-control architecture virtualizes wireless access and
produces an intelligent, self-monitoring WLAN. Moving to Meru lets
enterprises migrate business-critical applications from wired
networks to an all-wireless network able to handle the diversity
and density of mobile communication devices. Meru's unique
"network-in-control" wireless architecture is used by all major
vertical industries including Fortune 500 businesses, health care,
education, retail, manufacturing, hospitality, and government.
Founded in 2002, Meru is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., and operates worldwide.
Visit www.merunetworks.com or call (408) 215-5300 for more
information.
About Wavelink
Wavelink (www.wavelink.com.au) specialises in the supply,
marketing and support of a range of leading edge business IP,
wireless, communication and network security and access solutions.
Wavelink distributes a range of products from Meru Networks,
Polycom, Digium, Cisco, AirTight, Nomadix and Bradford Networks.
For more information please contact Wavelink on 1300 147 000.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward Looking
Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements and
information. All statements other than statements of historical
facts that address activities, events or developments that we
expect, believe or anticipate will or may occur in the future are
forward-looking statements. Such statements include, but are
not limited to those statements regarding Meru's ability to bring
advanced wireless solutions to Australian enterprises, the ability
to design and implement wireless LANs to give IT managers a degree
of choice in deploying their mobility infrastructure, and the
ability to jointly deliver solutions across key vertical industries
in Australia. We have identified some of these
forward-looking statements with words like "believe," "may,"
"will," "should," "expect," "intend," "plan," "predict,"
"anticipate," "estimate" or "continue" and other words and terms of
similar meaning. These forward-looking statements involve risks and
uncertainties, including the risk that the market for Meru's
solutions may not grow as the company expects; risks related to a
lengthening customer approval processes, including lengthening of
budget approval processes and funding uncertainty for domestic
education customers; the risk that continuing investment in sales
and marketing coverage and capacity will fail to diversify the
company's customer mix or mitigate against the uncertainty of
governmental funding; and the other risks and uncertainties
described under the caption "Risk Factors" in Meru Networks'
quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, or the SEC, on November
8, 2011, as well as additional reports filed with the SEC.
These forward-looking statements also involve 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. We have based these
forward-looking statements largely on our current expectations and
projections about future events and financial trends that we
believe may affect our financial conditions, results of operations,
business strategy and financial needs. All forward-looking
statements in this press release are based on information available
to us as of the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to update
or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of
new information, new developments or otherwise.
SOURCE Meru Networks, Inc.