[July 01, 2004] Meru Provides High-Performance Wireless Internet Access to Conference Attendees at Networld+Interop, Tokyo CHIBA, Japan --(Business Wire)-- July 1, 2004 -- Attendees Experience Predictable Wireless Service in Highly Dense User Environment Meru Networks, the leader in predictable enterprise-scale wireless LAN (WLAN) infrastructure, has deployed its equipment for providing wireless Internet access at the International Conference Hall at the 2004 Networld+Interop Tokyo conference and exhibition. From June 28 to July 2, a wireless network installed and operated by Nissho Electronics, a strategic partner for Meru in Japan, is enabling conference attendees to get predictable wireless access and experience the benefits of the Meru WLAN solution. Attendees from enterprise, government, and academic organizations are expected to number 160,000. "With support for five times more number of users per Access Point than other industry solutions, the Meru WLAN System is ideally suited for the dense user environment of a conference," said Kamal Anand, VP of Marketing for Meru Networks. "It is a privilege to have the opportunity to demonstrate our innovative technology and value proposition at the premier networking conference in Japan." The Meru Wireless LAN System provides application-specific over-the-air Quality of Service (QoS), and supports loss-less handoff and the high client density required in pervasive, enterprise-scale wireless LAN deployments. The patent-pending Air Traffic Control architecture leverages a set of distributed algorithms and three key embedded, standards-compliant mechanisms found nowhere else in the industry: -- Wireless Contention Management, overcoming the dramatic reduction in throughput that access points otherwise experience when multiple active clients contend for the shared wireless medium. Without degradation in peak throughput, Meru's Access Points support five times the number of active clients as compared to today's access points. -- Over-the-Air QoS, providing fine-grained QoS per application, user, and flow, both up- and downlink between the client and the access points. This enables the same wireless LAN to be used for data and voice and results in a five-fold increase in voice-carrying capacity over today's wireless LAN systems. -- Virtual Access Point, ensuring no loss of traffic as users roam in and out of the range of various physical access points. Multiple physical Meru Access Points collaborate to form one virtual access point, creating a highly reliable, self-healing and easy-to-administer network. About Meru Networks, Inc. Meru Networks designs and develops the standards-compliant, highly secure and scalable Wireless LAN System delivering enterprise-grade voice and data. The Meru solution is deployed in major Fortune 500 accounts, universities, and healthcare organizations. Meru's Air Traffic Control architecture minimizes contention-based throughput loss over the shared wireless medium to provide predictable bandwidth and over-the-air application-specific QoS. The Meru solution reduces security risk through strong authentication, encryption and continuous monitoring of the air. Meru, founded in 2002, is based in Sunnyvale, California. For more information on Meru Networks and its products, visit www.merunetworks.com or call (408) 215-5300. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]