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The Meru Difference Putting the Wi-Fi® Network in Control Changes Everything!

Powering the All-Wireless Enterprise™. The Meru Difference Putting the Wi-Fi® Network in Control Changes Everything!. Rob Klouda, Area Director, rklouda@merunetworks.com 203-376-0710. Meru Networks Company Overview. Founded in 2002, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

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The Meru Difference Putting the Wi-Fi® Network in Control Changes Everything!

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  1. Powering the All-Wireless Enterprise™ The Meru DifferencePutting the Wi-Fi® Network in Control Changes Everything! Rob Klouda, Area Director, rklouda@merunetworks.com 203-376-0710

  2. Meru Networks Company Overview • Founded in 2002, Sunnyvale, CA, USA • Operations in North America, APAC, EMEA • NASDAQ Listed – “MERU” • Mission: Deliver Wireless like Wire™ experience to the enterprise • Virtualized Wireless LAN innovation • 2011 Acquisition of Identity Networks • Secure Client Provisioning, Quest Access • 5,500+ customers in 38 countries worldwide • Category Leadership • Enterprise 802.11n • Focused on the Wireless of Wi-Fi • WLAN Virtualization- High Density – Explosion of devices • Security and Management

  3. Did you know? Wi-Fi is built around fighting for bandwidth. Devices fight each other and Devices fight their own AP

  4. Hubs have collisions and they affect performance Legacy Microcell Hub

  5. The fight for bandwidth!

  6. Did you know? Wi-Fi is built around fighting for bandwidth. Access Points fight each other

  7. How does this keep the APs from fighting?

  8. Oh and those pretty little blobs… not reality any more. Meet 11n!

  9. Did you know? Clients must disconnect from the network as they TRY to pick the best Access Point.

  10. Is this really “mobility”? • MicroCellProvides Poor Connectivity, • All Meru Competitors use MicroCell • Why use a disconnects as a means for better connectivity???? • Client devices Choose wrong AP = Poor performance • Client devices have Hard Handoff = Service disrupted; Security restart • Test took 240 seconds to complete AP1 AP2 AP3 AP4 AP5 Client stays connected to AP3; Skips AP4 Client stays connected to AP1; Skips AP2 150 300 450 600 (feet)

  11. Did you know? Adding APs doesn’t scale.

  12. How do you scale Wi-Fi?

  13. Is this enough capacity?

  14. What about this?

  15. Did you know… These are the most common reasons for Wi-Fi Meltdown In schools, In hospitals, In Factories and Warehouses, On Airplanes, And more……

  16. THE MERU DIFFERENCE

  17. That’s just not fair…. Meru was designed from the ground up MOST PREDICTABLE and MOST SCALABLE Wi-Fi platform in the world and it’s still easier and has a lower TCO!

  18. The Meru Difference Put the network in control of Who talks when.

  19. Would you buy the hub or the switch? Meru delivers switch-like predictability and performance Microcell functions as hub • Predictable throughput • Supports more clients • ‘Wire like’ predictability • High quality Voice and Video • Delivers greater throughput

  20. The Meru Difference With the network in control of “who talks when” Everything gets easier. APs don’t have to fight!

  21. We all just get along… How do you design or troubleshoot a network that is always changing?

  22. The Meru Difference With the network in control of client connectivity Everything gets easier. Clients don’t have to disconnect... …just to be mobile. …just to be on a better AP. …just to avoid interference.

  23. Meru means mobility and mobility means staying connected AP1 AP2 AP3 AP4 AP5 150 300 450 600 (feet)

  24. The Meru DifferenceScaleWhere you need it whenever you need it! • Difficult to scale to higher density • Can’t share the load across many cells • Bandwidth isolated by physical location • Easy to design/deploy and scale. • Share the load across any channel anytime • Bandwidth available anywhere for any user

  25. The Meru Difference Scale you can sink your teeth into… The Meru WLAN500™ challenge!

  26. Now that wireless is easy to design, and predictable for any app at any scale… Let’s make it Easy to Secure Easy to Access Easy to Manage

  27. AP + Virtual Client Only with Meru, can management see into the future!  RADIUS Server Switch   Services Appliance DNS Server  • End-to-end visibility of the service levels of the network • Detects failures or degradation in quality on the important network paths for the application, wired or wireless • Not just detection, but diagnosis: full E(z)RF integration Controller  AP AP AP 

  28. Management and troubleshooting live, in English, only with Meru! RADIUS server unreachable DHCP server unreachable

  29. … and a Network that is also insightful beyond WiFi! • Spectrum Analysis • Unblinded by channels or clients • Always on ALWAYS secure

  30. ENTERPRISE NETWORK ACCESSIS CHANGING… • Users want to connect more than just PC’s • Both Corporate and Personally Owned Devices Business Critical Diversity of Devices WLAN for Casual Use Diversity of Users • Collaboration requires access for • Employees • Guests • Contractors • Consultants

  31. …AND THATBRINGS NEW IT CHALLENGES • How Do You Provision Secure Network Access For Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) • Under IT policies/control • Efficient / Cost-effective • Reduce reliance on IT • How Do You Provision Secure Network Access For New Types of User • Efficiently - requiring no IT interaction • Flexibly – Get users on the network quickly • Traceable – Be able to fully audit network use

  32. INTRODUCING IDENTITY MANAGER – SOLVING THE KEY PROBLEMS • Smart Connect • Solves the greatest to barrier to secure connectivity adoption • Automatically provision client devices for secure 802.1x or PSK access to the network • Guest Management • Delivers secure, scalable wireless network access for guests, employees and their mobile devices. • Less reliance on IT while enforcing the policies set forth by IT

  33. AUTOMATED CLIENT CONFIGURATION Access Point Encrypted 1. Authenticate using web authentication 2. Download an applet to configure 802.1x 3. Automatically connect with 802.1x Identity Manager automates the configuration through a downloadable agent from the guest portal Supported Today: More to Come… Windows iPad/iPhone Apple Mac Android

  34. INTRODUCING GUEST MANAGEMENT WITH IDENTITY MANAGER

  35. That’s the Meru Difference Provisions client security automatically Provides secure visitor management Can test your network before your users do Has RF to core redundancy Eliminates roaming problems Can make full use of limited spectrum Eliminates Co-Channel Interference

  36. The Meru Product Suite Controllers Range from 1-30 APs, up to 1500 Aps 1x Gig Ethernet, 4x Gig Ethernet, 2x 10Gb Ethernet Up to 5000 users Max throughput with ANY encryption APs Single, Dual, Triple, and Quad Radio options Two and Three Stream 11n options Indoor or Outdoor Options Full, resilient, Mesh options including wired downlinks Management with historical logging, reporting alerting Proactive AP testing with “virtual” clients Spectrum Analysis and Classification Visitor Management Client Provisioning Software

  37. Take it from thousands of people like you… in NY/MA/CT alone!

  38. Or From thousands more from around the world!

  39. Share your passion, share your success!Visit www.youtube.com/merunetworksRob Kloudarklouda@MeruNetworks.com203-376-0710

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