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Meru Networks Announces New Solution to Accelerate Smooth Migration of Enterprise Networks from the Wired Ethernet to the New Mobile Edge

- Innovative AP400 Mobile Edge access point platform designed to deliver IT comprehensive and flexible multi-function capabilities to securely scale, manage and assure service levels while reducing costs


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04 May, 2011, 10:00 GMT

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SUNNYVALE, California, May 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Meru Networks Inc. (http://www.merunetworks.com), (NASDAQ: MERU), the leader in virtualized 802.11n enterprise wireless networking, today announced the AP400 Mobile Edge access point (AP) platform (http://www.merunetworks.com/ps/accesspoints/ap400.php), the industry's first three-stream 802.11n quad-radio AP platform. Based on a new hardware architecture, the platform is designed specifically to help IT organizations manage a smooth and accelerated transformation of their enterprise edge network from a wired Ethernet switch architecture to the new Mobile Edge. With a maximum total data rate of 1.8Gbps(1) the AP400 Mobile Edge includes Meru's patented virtualized wireless LAN (WLAN) technology to deliver a flexible, software-configurable mobile edge architecture purpose-built for high-performance enterprise mobility, supporting indoor and outdoor use. The platform is optimized to service the new generation of mobile devices such as iPads, iPhones, Android-based smartphones and tablets, and supports the user's need to access high definition (HD) video, wireless VoIP and other multi-media applications. The AP400 Mobile Edge platform also leverages Meru's patent-pending Orthogonal Array Beam Forming(TM) technology and next generation sub-carrier level beam forming to deliver Adaptive Optimization(TM). This new innovative capability is designed to deliver the highest performance and consistent quality-of-service (QoS) for low-power multi-media mobile devices. The AP400 platform also includes an onboard USB port for adding an additional WLAN radio to provide cellular WAN backhaul capabilities.

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Similar to that of a wired switch, the AP400 Mobile Edge software-configurable platform provides IT organizations a portfolio of multi-function power tools to readily provision, secure and manage their new mobile edge wireless network. A "WLAN 500" mode can be invoked to optimize the wireless network for maximum capacity, client-density and QoS. Applications that are mission-critical or require highly-secure access can have dedicated spectrum allocated for those purposes. Air Traffic service mode enables predictive network analytics, proactive spectrum analysis and maximum wireless network security. Multiple AP400s can be combined to create a pervasive and seamless mobile edge fabric, simultaneously making available all the spectrum channels over every square inch of the enterprise's facilities that are covered by the APs.

With users' increasing reliance on mobile devices for access to applications, the Ethernet switches used at the access layer are becoming obsolete. Yet many are still demanding costly upgrades, expensive support contracts and time from already constrained IT resources to serve a diminishing subset of their enterprise users. With a full line of models built on Meru's mobile edge platform, the AP400 platform is designed to drastically reduce unnecessary additional investments in Ethernet switching. The AP400 platform enables IT organizations to rapidly plan and deliver a smooth and seamless migration to a mobile edge for their users, while exploiting their existing investment in installed wired switches through their normal decommissioning lifecycle.

Key Facts

    
    - The AP400 platform includes an onboard USB port for adding the optional
      WLAN radio to provide cellular WAN backhaul capabilities. The platform
      when combined with Meru's channel layering architecture delivers
      gigabit bandwidth at every square inch of access point coverage and
      uniquely makes every channel available throughout the enterprise.
    - The AP400 Mobile Edge software-configurable platform provides IT
      organizations a portfolio of multi-function power tools to readily
      provision, secure, optimize and manage their new mobile edge wireless
      network. The AP400 platform also offers Meru's optional Proactive
      Spectrum Analysis
      (http://www.merunetworks.com/ps/ezrf/spectrum.php) (PSM) functionality.
      Air Traffic service mode enables predictive network analytics,
      proactive spectrum analysis and maximum wireless network security.
      Applications that are mission-critical or require highly, uninterrupted
      and secure access can have dedicated spectrum allocated for those
      purposes.
    - Meru's WLAN 500(TM)
      (http://www.merunetworks.com/technology/resources/videos/index.php) was
      implemented to demonstrate Meru's competitive advantages in supporting
      very high densities of mobile devices accessing multi-media
      applications. Meru's AP400 Mobile Edge platform takes the experience of
      successfully providing interactive service simultaneously to 500 mobile
      voice, video, and data clients in 500 square feet of space, and brings
      it to the average enterprise. Device density situations can destroy
      network fidelity long before they reach 500 clients in 500 square feet.
      When deployed to solve density problems, i.e. WLAN 500(TM) Networking
      Mode, all radios are enabled with Meru's unique coordination, load
      balancing and band-steering algorithms across all APs in the network to
      optimize throughput so the enterprise can avoid a Wi-Fi Meltdown(TM)
      (http://www.merunetworks.com/microsites/meltdown/index.php).
    - With the introduction of the AP400 Mobile Edge platform, Meru is
      introducing the concept of Mobile Application Segregation. By
      dedicating a single, virtualized channel to a specific application or
      applications, Meru's AP400 platform allows enterprises to provision and
      limit specific applications to designated channels for secure limited
      access for authorized users for certain emergency use, or for peak
      access overload situations. This provides IT organizations with
      additional flexibility for mobile network security and optimization.
    - By eliminating Ethernet switches and transitioning to Meru's AP400
      Mobile Edge platform, enterprises can significantly reduce their wired
      LAN and switch closet costs with fewer management points, no switches
      to upgrade in the future and less power consumption.

Supporting Quotes

Zeus Kerravala, senior vice president and distinguished research fellow, Yankee Group

"Enterprises are becoming more mobile by the day. The workforce is no longer attached to their desks accessing applications via a wired connection. Optimizing mobile devices and providing a flexible and reliable network from anywhere will be the next challenge on the IT horizon, forcing enterprises to rethink the way the network edge is designed. Meru is offering enterprises a clear migration path to a new wireless edge with the introduction of the AP400 platform, while enabling much needed cost savings and a more efficient workforce."

Ihab Abu-Hakima, president and CEO, Meru Networks

"With the number of mobile devices having no wired Ethernet port capability about to exceed those devices with Ethernet ports, the paradigm shift from traditional wired switch LANs to the new mobile edge is coming at the enterprise faster than expected. Enterprises need a migration path and the tools to help them reach the end goal. The AP400 Mobile Edge platform was designed for exactly this transformation; with the added advantage of eliminating businesses' dependence on what we believe are soon to be obsolete, expensive wired switches. By architecting an all-wireless edge based on the AP400, enterprises can address a wide variety of network challenges from managing the accelerating growth in numbers of mobile devices, to optimizing secure mobile application access and performance − all while easing management complexities and significantly reducing their wired LAN costs."

Availability

The AP400 Mobile Edge AP platform is scheduled to be available in the second half of 2011. To learn more about the AP400 platform and the future of enterprise networking, join our webinar on Thursday, May 5 (https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/196988185) to learn more about this exciting new technology.

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.

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 help IT organization manage a smooth and accelerated transformation from a wired Ethernet switch architecture to the Mobile Edge, service the new generation of mobile devices, deliver the highest performance and consistent quality of service for mobile devices, and reduce investment in Ethernet switching and wired LAN costs with less management points. 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.

Meru Networks is a registered trademark of Meru Networks, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

(1) Based on maximum data rate of 450Mbps per radio, on all four radios.

    
    Media Contact:                     Investors Contact:
    Neila Matheny                      Ingrid Ebeling/Elaine Chen
    Engage PR                          Market Street Partners
    +1-510-748-8200, ext. 215          +1-408-215-5658
    nmatheny@engagepr.com              ir@merunetworks.com

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