Application Slides 17 October 2006

Applications of Meru Networks’ Wireless LAN Platform

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SchoolsSchulenÉcole 学校

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Mona Shores School District K-12 district-wide all-wireless network

Profile K-12 school district, 4,300 students, 225

teachers and 550 employees, across 6 schools Challenge

Provide cost-effective, high-speed Internet access, e-mail, streaming media, testing/learning applications

Future proof for voice over WLAN, easy to deploy and manage

Solution Meru Access Points and MC 3000 Controllers Eliminates co-channel interference and complex

RF planning, provides easy deployment and management across the district, includes Meru’s over-the-air Quality of Service

Future proof for high quality voice over wireless LAN service

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Northern Michigan University

Profile Public university with >9,600 students on one campus with multiple building

Challenge Provide cost-effective network access to 800+ simultaneous users with

802.11b/g clients in an 82,000 sq. ft. building with five ultra high density lecture halls (190-500 seat) and 29 classrooms (30-50 seat)

Solution 250+ Meru Access Points and three MC 3150 Controllers on a single ESSID Provides upwards of 100 clients per Access Point in dense environments with

fair time-based access to both 802.11b and 802.11g clients Lowered TCO by minimizing the number of Access Points

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Northern Michigan University Highest density deployment in the world

• 1st floor• 5 lecture halls with up to 500 users

per hall, 3-channel Virtual Cell deployment with 14 Access Points

800 ActiveUsers

• 2nd floor• 29 classrooms with up to 50 users

per room, 3-channel Virtual Cell deployment with 17 Access Points

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Philadelphia School District: School of the Future

Profile Top 10 national K-12 school district with 273

schools and > 217,000 students Challenge

Establish a next generation “School of the Future” with 100% mobile teaching and learning environment

High-performance, high density universal connectivity

Support secure, converged data, voice, and video

Centralized configuration and control Solution

Meru RS 4000 Radio Switches and MC 3000 Controllers provide the maximum bandwidth and highest density available

Application fairness - over-the air QoS Centralized configuration and management

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Rush-Henrietta School District K-12 district-wide all-wireless network

Profile 450 classrooms, 6,000 students, 650 faculty and 550

staff, four administrative buildings Challenge

Use technology to increase staff productivity, improve the overall learning environment, support fast-growing user base, and run sophisticated new applications

Solve existing co-channel interference and performance issues

Solution Meru’s WLAN Access Points and Controllers

eliminate co-channel interference and complex RF channel planning

Meru’s over-the-air Quality of Service ensures high quality data service in high-density environments and fair access for both 802.11b and 802.11g clients

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School of the Future: Full redundancy and spectrum utilization

Network can tolerate the failure of any component without loss of coverage

Switch redundancy: each Controller is connected to a different Ethernet Switch

Controller redundancy: every Radio Switch is backhauled to two different Controllers

Radio Switch redundancy: each location is served on each band by at least two different Radio Switches

11 channels per classroom Every classroom is served by three

802.11b/g channels and eight 802.11a channels

Meru RS 4000

Radio Switch

Meru Controller

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State University of New York Stony Brook

Profile 123 buildings, 1,100 acres, 22,000 students

Challenge Easy to deploy WLAN in buildings across

campus, centrally managed over an IP routed network with different security policies for different classes of users

Solution Meru’s WLAN includes Access Points and

Controllers eliminates co-channel interference and complex RF planning

Plug-and-play deployment model with centralized policies and control

Access Points can be deployed anywhere on campus across IP subnets

Supports 64 different ESSIDs each with different security policies

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Profile 35,000+ students,1,458-acre campus,

technologically cutting-edge institution Challenge

Growing student population, increasing demand for bandwidth-intensive wireless applications including VoIP

Large scale, very high density 802.11b/g clients in classrooms and lecture halls with no degradation

Solution Meru’s WLAN includes Access Points and

MC 3000 Controllers Over-the-air QoS ensures high quality data

service in high-density environments Air Traffic Control technology eliminates

handoff delays and creates seamless access

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University of Texas - Dallas

Profile 46 building campus, 14,000 students, 2,500

employees, clinical facility, doctors, students and staff with real-time patient information

Challenge 24x7 access to critical data applications,

coursework, testing materials, and patient information; ensuring future support for VoIP; integrating with “always-on” WebCT courseware

Solution Campus-wide deployment of Meru’s WLAN Access

Points and Controllers eliminates co-channel interference and complex RF planning

Meru’s over-the-air Quality of Service ensures high quality data service in high-density environments

Meru’s Air Traffic Control technology eliminates handoff delays and creates seamless access

HospitalsKrankenhäuser Hôpitaux 病院

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LifeSphere Maple Knoll Village

Typical Floor Layout

Profile Assisted living and retirement community in Cincinnati, Ohio. 700 members,

57 cottages, 97 apartments, 60 assisted living apartments, 174-bed nursing home

Challenge Simultaneously support mixed 802.11b and 802.11g clients including

wireless PDA clients run patient charting applications Solution

150+ Meru Access Points and 2 MC3150 Controllers operating in single channel Virtual Cell with multiple ESSIDs, encrypted VLAN

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St. Agnes Hospital

Profile Founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 1823, 308 bed

hospital with 3,000+ staff members Challenge

12 floors, 1000 users, very dense voice and data environment, data intensive physician applications,

Nurses equipped with 500+ Vocera badges, VoWLAN SpectraLink phones used by doctors and pharmacists

Mobile carts support laptops running clinical and other applications

QoS and deployment problems experienced with Cisco APs

Solution Meru Access Points and Controllers used to meet

mobility, performance, density requirements Full hospital coverage without extensive site survey No 802.11g client degradation in mixed 802.11b/g

environment Toll quality voice – even in dense environments

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St. John’s Hospital

Profile 700 bed facility is one of the largest in Illinois

Challenge Integrated voice and data network with no contention

between 802.11b and 802.11g clients and guaranteed QoS for Sip and Vocera devices

Required centralized administration, simple deployment, ad hoc rogue Access Point and client detection, and guest network with accounting capabilities

Solution 250+ Meru Access points and MC 3150 Controllers

operating on a single channel Virtual Cell with multiple ESSIDs

Vocera badges and SIP phones with VLAN support Encrypted data with VLAN support Guest network using Captive Portal and Radius

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University of Miami Hospital

Profile Largest healthcare system in the southeastern U.S. with 6000 members

Challenge Network data, voice, PDA, medical cart, and laptop applications while lowering

costs, simplifying deployment, offering reliable service with voice QoS, and seamlessly integrating with the existing backend infrastructure and security processes

Solution Meru Controllers and 2700+ Meru Access Points operate on a single channel Simple to deploy, low TCO, reliable and predictable voice service

- Saved $500,000 by eliminating RF channel planning

Old Micro Cell Architecture Was Complex to Plan and Deploy

Meru’s Virtual Cell Architecture Is A Model of Simplicity

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Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

Profile An integrated health care system that

operates 1,298 acute care, rehabilitation and long-term care beds, outpatient services, and community health and information centers

Challenge Simultaneously support 802.11b voice

clients, 802.11a and 802.11g data clients medical carts, tablet PCs, and PDAs

Solution Meru Access Points and Controllers

provide converged voice and data in single channel Virtual Cell

Simple to deploy

EnterpriseUnternehmen Entreprise 企業

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Hong Kong International Terminals

Profile One of the world’s busiest shipping terminals -

handles over 50% of Kwai Chung’s container port traffic

Challenge Required comprehensive wireless coverage in a

harsh environment with and multipath issues Needed to co-exist with an existing wireless

network that had one available channel Solution

Meru’s WLAN Access Points and Controllers were located throughout the terminal area, on buildings, and on towers

Provided 200% overlapping coverage and near zero handoff time

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Hong Kong International Terminals

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Meru APs

Meru AP Controller

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Media Converter

Firewall

WIN WIN RADIUS & CA RADIUS & CA ServersServers

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Profile 28 floor hotel and conference center

Challenge Wireless data access

for guests, VoWLAN handsets for internal staff communications

VoIP carrier services Solution

Meru Access Points and Controller operating on a single channel using a Virtual Cell

Hyatt Osaka Hotel

Managed IP Centrex Service Provided By VoIP Service Provider

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Data CenterData Center

WiFiPhones

PDAs

Conference FloorConference Floor

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Osaka GasLargest dual-mode phone and data deployment

Profile $9B public utility, 15k employees,

49 offices nationwide Challenge

Campus-wide mobility for business-critical communications to 6000 dual-mode WiFi/cellular phones, 3000 WiFi-only phones, 1000s of laptops

Truly mobile offices – moveable desks, limited phone/data wiring

Service Provider

Network

VoIP

Network

IP Network

Ethernet Backbone

Fujitsu SIP Servers

PBX

Meru MC1000

Meru AP208

SwitchRouter

Router

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Osaka Gas

Solution Meru’s Access Points and Controller deliver toll-quality voice and high

performance data “Address-free” office—voice and data connectivity anywhere True one-number access: voice calls running over WLAN indoors, cellular

service outdoors Total savings ≈$4M per year