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Wavelink announces Meru Networks ranks second in worldwide market share for 802.11n enterprise wireless LANs

Announcement posted by Wavelink 24 Jul 2009

Companies worldwide increasingly rely on Meru's virtualised 802.11n WLANs for business-critical communication

Melbourne, July 1, 2009 – Wavelink Communications, a value added distributor of business IP telephony and wireless solutions, has announced that one of its suppliers, Meru Networks has ranked number two in the worldwide enterprise 802.11n wireless LAN market by market research firm Dell’Oro.

According to Dell'Oro's "First Quarter 2009 Wireless LAN Report" (see http://delloro.com), Meru logged 12 percent of total vendor revenue, second only to Cisco and ahead of third-place Aruba, for equipment based on 802.11n, the high-performance standard that represents the fastest-growing segment of the WLAN market.

Ilan Rubin, director, Wavelink said, “802.11n is recognised as the future of wireless networks and is the only meaningful measure of success for WLAN vendors today.

"Meru has created a full line of plug-and-play 802.11n solutions that outperform the legacy 'micro-cell' products of other WLAN vendors yet cost less through the pioneering use of wireless virtualisation techniques.

Enterprises across all major industry segments are adopting Meru's 802.11n–based virtualised WLANs."

According to the Dell'Oro Group report, the position of 802.11n access points as a percentage of all 11a/b/g/n access points has tripled over the past year, from six to 18 percent.

The enterprise WLAN market is expected to grow to US$1.9 billion by the end of 2010, with 802.11n accounting for the majority of total access point shipments.

Enterprises now considering wireless as primary communication medium
Since Meru brought the first enterprise 802.11n products to market in 2007, 802.11n technology has gained broad-based acceptance, with more than 600 client devices now certified for interoperability by the Wi-Fi Alliance.

With its greater range and performance akin to fast ethernet, 802.11n is letting enterprises for the first time consider wireless LAN as their primary communication medium.

Organisations that previously deployed legacy 'micro cell' WLAN architectures, which mandate that all access points be replaced on different non-overlapping channels, are realising that adaptive channel-planning techniques make networks too unreliable for critical business communication.

Many are taking advantage of the current technology upgrade cycle to migrate to Meru's 'virtual cell' architecture, which lets them derive strategic competitive value from their wireless LAN and concentrate on their business rather than the stability of their infrastructure.

In a Novarum 802.11n benchmark test earlier this year (http://novarum.com/publications.php), Meru 802.11n APs outperformed equipment from both Cisco and Aruba, consistently exceeding 170 Mbps throughput, and maintained high performance under heavy data and voice traffic loads that made other vendors' APs suffer "performance collapse.

Meru 802.11n solutions incorporate WLAN virtualisation techniques
Products based on 802.11n enable wireless access at more than five times the speed of the legacy 802.11a/b/g standards.

Meru's 802.11n solutions use WLAN virtualisation techniques to let organisations deliver information, applications and business processes in a personalised way to individuals, while enabling network managers to roll out large-scale secure WLANs at a fraction of the cost of legacy solutions.

Using Meru's Air Traffic Control™ technology, the company's products deliver full 802.11n draft 2.0 performance at the highest possible wireless client densities while offering full backward compatibility with 802.11a/b/g devices.

All Meru access points automatically select a single channel for use enterprise- or campus-wide, layering additional channels when more capacity is required.

This approach provides network stability and predictability, minimises co-channel interference and eliminates the need for both time-intensive initial channel planning and ongoing channel adjustments following deployment.

About Wavelink
Wavelink Communications (www.wavelink.com.au) specialises in the supply, marketing and support of a range of leading edge IP telephony and wireless solutions.

Wavelink distributes a range of products from Polycom, Digium and Meru Networks.

About Meru Networks
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 organisations 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, Calif. For more information, visit www.merunetworks.com.