Meru Networks Migrate Enterprise Networks to Mobile Edge

Meru Networks Inc., (NASDAQ: MERU), Sunnyvale, Calif., a leader in virtualized 802.11n enterprise wireless networking, has announced the AP400 Mobile Edge access point (AP) platform, 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 technology and next generation sub-carrier level beam forming to deliver Adaptive Optimization. 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. 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.