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You know it's coming. There's simply no stopping it. A massive new flood of Wi-Fi devices is headed straight for your wireless network. Gone are the days of sporadic, casual wireless use, when a few hundred users in a lecture hall or conference room had a few dozen laptops between them. Today, everyone there could easily have two, three, four devices each, together carrying thousands of smartphones, tablets, and netbooks, all in constant need of business essential information and all expecting a steadfast connection in every square inch of your enterprise.
But it's not just what users bring in. Everything from office equipment to air conditioners will soon be making wireless machine-to-machine communications, sucking up shared resources, overwhelming your network, grinding it to a halt.
And while there's some comfort in the old way, there's also a lingering anxiety, a voice in your head that says facing this onslaught is like bailing out the ocean with a five-gallon bucket. It's time to listen to that voice, because no matter how hard they try, traditional Wi-Fi network vendors simply can't prepare you. By letting devices choose how and where to connect, they can't effectively manage the dynamic nature of radio frequency. And when the flood of Wi-Fi hungry devices and applications hits, their flaws will be too big to ignore.
It's time for a new way forward, a way in which physical networks become virtual environments, wireless operation becomes simple and reliable, and the transfer of critical intelligence over the air becomes as constant and unnoticed as the air itself.
That's the Meru difference.
Imagine your office was like the sky outside and each Wi-Fi device was an airplane. Years ago, you'd only see a few planes, and then they could easily manage take-offs, landings, and flight paths on their own. Now, imagine that sky full of today's commercial airliners, business jets, and prop planes, all flying at different speeds, and all choosing when and where to land on their own, without any help from the ground.
That's exactly how traditional Wi-Fi networks are designed. When devices come into the network, they choose how and where to connect, no matter what speed they're running at. Each device chooses differently, with no regard for others, and as they move through the network, they decide when to break a connection and make another - chaos.
For nearly a decade, Meru has been offering thousands of customers around the world a better way, engineering single channel, virtualized wireless networks built for mobility from day one. Meru creates the only wireless environment that allows your network to manage the transmissions devices send and receive. It's a breakthrough we call air traffic control.
This system-wide awareness of device transmissions has important security implications. Since a Meru wireless environment coordinates activities across all access points and controllers, and knows what all devices are doing in the entire area, it can recognize and alert you to bad actors before they do damage.
Meru also offers a new way to allow each device access based on how much time it takes to communicate. Picture a three-lane highway, where the slowest vehicles block the fastest ones. This is how traditional Wi-Fi networks operate. By not recognizing the difference in devices, they give equal priority to all transmissions, blocking fair access and congesting the network with traffic and delays.
Meru's time-based approach ensures true airtime fairness. On this new highway, all vehicles travel at their maximum speeds, even those carrying the most cargo, because each type of vehicle has its own lane. Everyone gets on. The slowest devices don't get in the way, and bandwidth hungry applications like video perform at their peak.
By unlocking the full potential of 802.11n standards, the Meru wireless environment delivers benefits that multiply quickly, unlike traditional Wi- Fi networks where devices see dozens or even hundreds of access points all operating on different channels. Clients now see only one virtualized point of access for the entire network, a virtual cell.
The virtualization allows devices to continue to think they're in control, while allowing the network to manage connections with the optimal access points. The result is a single seamless layer of coverage that eliminates the boundaries created by a hub-like patchwork of access points. Users and their devices move freely, without disruptive hand-offs, because every access point shares a single channel, and all appear as one.
