White Papers

Technology

• Wireless Without Compromise: Delivering the promise of IEEE 802.11n
  802.11n has proven that wireless can offer higher performance than most wired Ethernet connections. As such, 802.11n will rapidly lead to Wi-Fi becoming the dominant mode of access. This white paper explains how Meru's solution can help overcome 802.11n challenges and maximize technology's potential.
• Air Traffic Control - The Foundation for Wireless Without Compromise™
  Meru's Air Traffic Control technology provides the foundation for what the Gartner Group has identified as the industry's visionary 4th generation WLAN solution enabling companies to fully take advantage of the applications and devices that make them more competitive. The differences over legacy solutions are clear: application delivery is assured; performance and capacity are maximized; and deployment complexity and operations costs are minimized. The key to a more competitive and mobile world is here: enterprise mobility without compromise, only from Meru.
• Meru AirShield Security Suite: A Framework for Assured Mobile Application Delivery
  Wireless web access is pervasive and rapidly becoming an integral part of everyday life. Expectations are that organizations will provide wireless LAN access and extend it to their business partners for access to key business applications. Meru Networks offers the only fourth generation wireless LAN solution to enable the assured delivery of mobile Enterprise applications with Meru's AirShield Security Suite, a wireless LAN (WLAN) security solution providing application-based security for ALL classes of applications-traditional, end-to-end, encrypted, and new peer-to-peer in converged voice and data networks.
• Fulfilling the Promise of 802.11n without Compromise
  This paper offers an overview of the major benefits of 802.11n, while examining a few important deployment considerations that enterprise customers will encounter when planning migration or greenfield deployments. The effectiveness of conventional industry approaches and alternatives like Meru’s Mobile SCALE solution is also explored.
• Virtual Cells: The Only Scalable Multi-Channel Deployment
  As wireless LAN deployments and usage has increased, coupled with the near ubiquity of embedded Wi-Fi in laptops and smart phones, many enterprises are experiencing complaints from their users of slow or even dropped connections.
• MicroCell Deployments: Making a Bad Problem Worse
  Pervasive wireless LAN deployments require much larger, broader deployment of Wi-Fi access points than hot spots, cafes or isolated guest access in the enterprise. Clearly new solutions and deployment methodologies should be considered to make pervasive wireless LAN deployments feasible and economical.
• Revolutionizing Wireless LAN Deployment Economics with the Meru Networks Radio Switch
  For the enterprise IT administrator tasked with deploying a wireless LAN (WLAN) of any scale, the significant investment in equipment, time and resources to properly plan and install the deployment is daunting.

Solutions

• Are You Ready for the All-Wireless Enterprise?
  Enterprises of all types, including universities, K-12, hospitals, utilities, manufacturers, and government agencies are finding the need to deploy an All-Wireless Enterprise — a network with wireless as a primary infrastructure.
• The Enterprise Is Ready for Voice Over WLAN. Is Voice Over WLAN Ready for the Enterprise?
  Explains the numerous places where VoWLAN can go to work, why most offerings fail to make it work, and how only Meru Networks' standard-based solution puts the power of VoWLAN to work at enterprise-scale.

Healthcare

• Connected Care...Communication, Collaboration, Compassion - Wirelessly Enabled.
  Healthcare Information Technology (HCIT) is undergoing a renaissance fueled in large part by a surge in clinician need for easy-to-use tools that promote efficient, cost-effective, high-quality patient care.

Education

• Enabling the Wireless School: Challenges & Benefits of Wireless LANs in K-12
  Many K-12 schools are seeking new technological solutions that help optimize learning and collaboration among their students, faculty and administrative staff. Following on the success of Wireless LANs (WLANs or Wi-Fi) in higher education, an increasing number of K-12 schools are also integrating wireless and mobile technologies to better meet instructional demands and provide more users with on-line resources.

• World Without Wires - A 'Virtual' Roundtable by Campus Technology (207 kb pdf)
  Campus Technology speaks with Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Northern Michigan University and University of Miami Medical Center about how wireless computing is helping to enhance learning and attract students.

• Wireless LANs in Higher Education
  Universities and colleges are among the most aggressive adopters of Wi-Fi technology. The trend toward more collaborative and open learning environments, fueled by the explosive adoption of mobile devices among students and faculty, makes higher education campuses fertile ground for wireless LANs.