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Meru Networks

Product Name

Meru Wireless LAN System

Market Segment

Enterprise hardware

Funding

First round: $13.7M; Series B: $17M, Clearstone Venture Partners, NeoCarta Ventures, Evercore Ventures, BrainHeart Capital, JumpStartUp Venture, Fund Monitor Ventures, Dot Edu Ventures, Bluestream Ventures, Sierra Ventures

Competitors

Cisco Systems, Airespace, Aruba Networks, Trapeze Networks

Product Description

The Meru Wireless LAN solution features three major components: Meru Access Point, Meru Controller, and the Meru System Director. All three components feature the patent-pending Air Traffic Control Technology, which addresses the critical elements for deploying enterprise-class wireless LANs. Meru Wireless LANs centralize security and management and distribute air intelligence to achieve a wireless network with unprecedented reliability, security, quality of service and scalability. The Meru solution creates a wireless network that allows enterprises to leverage their existing investment in wired infrastructure.

Market Opportunity

The use of wireless LANs will continue to grow in the enterprise through 2006, with voice over WLAN (VoWLAN) a particularly promising area of growth, as use skyrockets from 6% currently to 27% by August 2006 (Infonetics Research). Although e-mail and Web browsing continue to be the most popular WLAN applications, Infonetics reports that enterprises are showing interest in more complex applications.

Demo Says

“Meru Networks is reducing the cost and complexity of WiFi networks while improving mobility in the extended enterprise. Moreover, the Meru Networks enable enterprise customers to reap the savings of VoIP over wireless networks relative to cellular networks for campus-wide communications by offering the only platform, today, that insures the quality of service these telephony systems demand. Meru Wireless LAN System provides a Wi-Fi infrastructure solution for large corporations designed to solve the problems of large-scale wireless VoIP and data services by using a brand new model for standard Wi-Fi access – the Cellular Telephone network.”