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Meru’s Mobile SCALE solution consisting of Meru Controllers and Meru Access Points (APs) provides a scalable WLAN solution along with centralized intelligence necessary to easily deploy and manage an enterprise’s growing WLAN needs.

Meru’s Controller family of products is designed to meet the scale and performance needs of small to large enterprises. All Meru Controllers include a common software foundation, System Director™, offering a set of standards-based and extensible services for ease of RF deployment, comprehensive security, over the air quality of service (QoS) with zero-loss handoff mobility for converged data, voice, and video networks using unique Air Traffic Control™ technology. Meru Controllers support 1+1 and N+1 redundancy, with fail over for high availability deployment. Meru Mobile SCALE solution, deployed as a wireless overlay network, leverages existing Layer 2/3 infrastructure of an enterprise and provides assured application delivery services to all 802.11 standards-based wireless client devices.


Key Benefits:

* Simple deployment with automatic discovery and configuration of APs without the need for channel planning or complex site surveys
* Easy to deploy and manage with centralized configuration and management
* Air Traffic Control technology eliminates the need for complex channel planning and delivers intelligence contention management while significantly reducing co-channel interference problems
* Scalable solution with platforms for large enterprises or branch offices
* Integrates easily with existing infrastructure and provides intelligent application aware call admission control and load balancing. Toll quality voice even in dense client environments with upstream and downstream QoS
* Multi-layered security including WPA, WPA2, 802.1x, automatic rogue access point detection, and mitigation without degradation of client performance
* Supports location based per user and group access policies to comply with and enforce corporate security requirements

Controller Product Family At-A-Glance

 


Product
Application
Features and Benefits

MC5000MCS5000

• Large Scale Enterprise
• Support for up to 1000 APs

Air Traffic Control delivers intelligent contention management for the highest possible wireless client density

Unique QoS traffic prioritization delivers toll quality voice over wireless LAN

Multi-layer security and standard WPA2 and 802.11i enable industry leading security policies that follow users as they roam

Rogue access points detection and prevention automatically shields the network from attack

MC3000MC3000
• Midsize Enterprise
• Support for up to 150 APs

MC1000MC1000

• Branch Office
• Support for up to 30 APs
MC500MC500
• Remote Office/Small Office
• Support for up to 5 APs

Large Scale Deployment

Large Scale Deployment


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