Cost-effective. Not Complicated. Meru Wireless LAN Management Most wireless LANs are not trusted with mission-critical applications today precisely because they require too many scarce IT resources and too much precious time. We don’t think that mission-critical availability should come at the expense of operational efficiency. At Meru, we build reliability and simplicity into our virtualized wireless LAN solutions from the start. And then we make them so easy to manage that almost anyone can—even from a smart phone halfway around the world. It’s Time for a New Approach Industry studies show that in 2009, best-in-class enterprises experienced management cost increases of 63% for their wireless LANs and a 69% increase in management employees. Why so high? Largely because management systems for legacy wireless LANs are based on wired network management techniques—and they are not adequate for today’s dynamic wireless environments. Meru believes it’s time for change. Our virtualized wireless LANs and innovative management capabilities completely change the way that enterprises view wireless LAN management. Meru E(z)RF Application Suite The MeruE(z)RF™ Application Suite provides a comprehensive, lifecycle system for managing Meru virtualized wireless LANs. By taking advantage of the innovative technology built into every Meru wireless network, the E(z)RF Application Suite greatly simplifies network management while delivering vital data for network administration, helpdesk troubleshooting, and long-term planning. Automated. Intelligent. (Figure 1) Meru centralizes and automates wireless LAN management. Diagnostic agents on the Meru access points and controller continuously capture over-the-air events and client state transitions. Events are logged into a database for retrieval at any time or use by other applications. The inference engine analyzes data, generates inferences, and raises alarms or notifications if necessary. Using MeruE(z) RFOnTheGo, relevant data and events can even be delivered to managers’ smart phones. A graphical interface enables you to drill down from global dashboards to specific client data or recreate the network state for a specific time to get exactly the view that you need. Increase Efficiency Automated inferences and detailed event histories can reduce troubleshooting time from days to minutes. Comprehensive visibility at your fingertips can reduce the number of staff needed to manage your Meru virtualized wireless LAN and also makes data immediately available to the helpdesk. Many Meru customers manage large virtualized wireless LANs with only one person. Reduce Costs A highly reliable network reduces the number of incidents that the network experiences. With detailed visibility into network and device activity, the E(z)RFApplication Suite also accelerates troubleshooting to significantly reduce overall downtime. Automated event correlation and rewind-and-replay features help you get to the root of issues so that you can prevent them from becoming problems again. For example, a Meru customer with a network of 1,000 access points documented a 75% reduction in costs associated with downtime and reduced actual hours of downtime by 80 percent. See Everything Reporting and monitoring flexibility allows you to tailor reports and dashboards to track the metrics that are most important to you. Visualize real-time or historical performance. Optional real-time location tracking also lets you track devices and assets from the centralized dashboard. Anywhere, Anytime Access Bring the network to an IT administrator using a smart phone. Network health and other information can be delivered over cellular links in a format designed for small screens and fast access. a single interface. View activity details at each level of the infrastructure and gain real-time and cumulative performance metrics: :: Comprehensive dashboards deliver over-the-air performance metrics :: Rapid troubleshooting is further simplified with a view of network trends :: Recreate a wireless station state for helpdesk support :: Context-aware search makes the management dashboards easy to use E(z)RF Service Assurance Manager (Figure 3) E(z)RF Service Assurance Manager is designed to deliver end-to-end service assurance for the entire Meru wireless LAN and its applications. By creating virtual devices on existing access points that actively inject traffic over the air, Service Assurance Manager tests and verifies network performance without impact to users. You can quickly isolate faults or potential issues—in the wireless network or back-end wired infrastructure—and take action before users experience performance impact. :: 24x7 monitoring of entire wireless network :: Live traffic injected to proactively verify service levels :: End-to-end testing using virtual clients in a “neighborhood watch” :: Automated reports on latency, throughput, and loss The E(z)RF Application Suite :: Integrated with network diagnostics E(z)RF Network Manager (Figure 2) This comprehensive wireless management and troubleshooting system provides network visualization, configuration, wireless performance dashboards, and fault management capabilities through :: Leverages unique Meru wireless LAN virtualization technologies Figure 1 | Comprehensive monitoring and management made easy. :: No additional sensors or access points are needed Figure 2 | Rewind and replay events to create a station state for accelerating troubleshooting and providing helpdesk support. Figure 3 | Quickly isolate faults and take action before users experience performance impact. Meru Makes Mission-Critical Easier Managing your Meru wireless LAN is like managing no other wireless network. We can help you deliver on your enterprise’s mobility initiatives efficiently, effectively, and flexibly. E(z)RF Location Manager Automatically track the physical location of thousands of wireless devices, including laptops, PDAs, wireless VoIP handsets, and unauthorized access points. You can also create wireless security policies based on enterprise-defined parameters, and integrate location tracking capabilities with other business applications, such as asset tracking. E(z)RF OnTheGo Meru also enables you to provide customized management dashboards on mobile devices, such as smart phones, so that IT personnel can monitor and manage the network from anywhere with a Wi-Fi or cellular connection. For More Information For more information about Meru wireless LAN products, visit WWW.Merunetworks.com or Contact us at +1.408.215.5300 About Meru Networks | Founded in 2002, Meru Networks provides a virtualized wireless LAN solution that cost-effectively optimizes the enterprise network to deliver the performance, reliability, predictability and operational simplicity of a wired network, with the advantages of mobility. Meru’s solution represents an innovative approach to wireless networking that utilizes virtualization technology to create an intelligent and self-monitoring wireless network, and enables enterprises to migrate their business-critical applications from wired networks to wireless networks, and become all-wireless enterprises. Meru’s solutions have been adopted in all major industry vertical markets, including Fortune 500 enterprises, healthcare, education, retail, manufacturing, hospitality and government. 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