Showing posts with label wireless. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wireless. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Meru Networks

As we all know, IT technology is growing rapidly. And in this business world, there is a huge competition between companies. We all know about big network system manufacturers like Cisco Systems, Extreme networks, Avaya, Alcatel Lucent, 3Com and so on, but when I was going to setup a new enterprise wireless network, I encountered a new name and a new technology. I'm talking about Meru Networks. I was impressed by their innovation and technology. They use a new approach a new wireless network architecture that brings advantages over traditional wireless networks. I tell you briefly some of them, but if you like to know more use the bottom links.
  • No need to channel planning anymore
  • No recognizable hand shaking in moving from one zone to another
  • Using virtual cell technology
  • Up to 2-3 times faster than microcell raw capacity in 2.4Ghz and even more in 5Ghz
  • Good bandwidth with even more users
  • Better performance in transferring  voice and data simultaneously.
  • Centralized management
  • Easy troubleshooting
  • More scalable 
  • and much more ...  
I ain't gonna go through details here, but here is a clip for quick overview. In this clip Dr. Bharghavan (CTO and Founder of Meru's networks) gives a simple explanation behind Meru's unique approach to managing APs and wireless clients. This is the core of Meru's technology enabling the concept of a virtual cell and flowing on to a virtual port for every wireless client, which delivers switch-like, fair and predictable performance to the wireless lan (as compared to hub-like performance of traditional legacy micro-cell vendors such as Cisco, Aruba, HP etc)



And hey it's really interesting, take a look at the link below. It's about a head to head wireless network and product review and test between Cisco Systems and Meru Networks.
http://www.networkcomputing.com/wireless/cisco-vs-meru-the-vendors-speak.php

And here is the official Meru networks website:
www.merunetworks.com/

If you are up to deploy a new enterprise wireless network, so take a look at Meru to see what they have to offer.