Corporate Brochure - Meru Networks

Corporate Fact Sheet
In Brief
Ticker: NASDAQ:MERU
Market: Wireless LANs
Founded: January 2002
IPO: March 2010
Headquarters: Sunnyvale, CA
Offices: 22 countries
2012 revenue: US $97.5 million
Employees: 391
Leadership Team
Dr. Bami Bastani
President and CEO
Brian McDonald
Chief Financial & Administrative
Officer
Mark Liu
General Counsel
Ajay Malik
Senior Vice President, Worldwide
Engineering & Quality Assurance
Keith Matasci
Senior Vice President, Worldwide
Operations
Manish Rai
Vice President Marketing
Kishore Reddy
Vice President & Managing Director,
India
Larry Vaughan
Senior Vice President, Worldwide
Sales & Field Operations
Sarosh Vesuna
Vice President and General Manager,
Business Units
Overview
Almost overnight, mobile devices and
applications have changed the way all
kinds of organizations operate, creating
new challenges for IT departments. In
response to the demands of device
users and the cost and efficiency
benefits mobility offers, large
enterprises are rapidly transitioning
from wired to wireless communication. And their IT organizations are suddenly
confronted with stressful new challenges.
This is the need Meru Networks meets, and the problem we solve. Meru delivers
virtualized wireless LAN solutions—based on the industry’s most advanced
architecture, MobileFLEX, that deliver reliable, easily managed, secure, costeffective
wireless connectivity to handle the density and device diversity of
today’s bring-your-own-device (BYOD) networks.
Meru’s technology is designed for mobility, not just reengineered to accommodate
devices that won’t stay put for wired networks. We hold patents for innovations in:
• Data transmission
• Multiuser detection and interference suppression
• Signal-to-noise-ratio-based rate adaptation
• Wireless rate adaptation
• Seamless mobility
• Flow inspection
• Power-over-Ethernet access points
• Wireless security
Fully and seamlessly integrated, our architecture enables us to do things
differently, freeing the 802.11 standard to deliver more than ever before.
Meru-designed wireless LANs offer single-channel operation, centralized control
of all wireless traffic, and smooth handoffs—all features that are now standard
in cellular networks. Meru’s early innovations led directly to virtualized wireless
LANs that are recognized by Gartner as the first fourth-generation wireless
systems—and that threaten to end wired Ethernet’s dominance at the network edge.
Ninety percent of Meru installations replace legacy systems that let each
device choose how and where to connect from among many options, without
regard for the needs of other devices. As more devices connect, disconnect,
and reconnect, these legacy networks can’t maintain consistent, high-quality
service because they can’t manage resources effectively.

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With Meru, intelligent network control manages traffic more
effectively, each device sees a single point of access and
all wireless traffic is orchestrated to deliver an excellent user
experience.
And now, with new virtualized editions of our controller
software, IT departments can opt for the flexibility of
deploying their mobility solution in their data centers or
private clouds.
Industries and Customers
Our virtualized wireless LAN solution is at work today in
healthcare, hospitality, higher education, K–12, retail and
other enterprises where wireless connectivity plays a critical
part in the mission.
Our customers include the Chicago Mercantile Exchange;
Nurminen Logistics in Helsinki, Finland; Carnival Cruise Lines;
Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines; The Westin Boston Waterfront,
The Langham, Melbourne; Miller School of Medicine; Park
Forest Health; Faxton-St. Luke’s Healthcare; Catholic Health
System; the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham,
England; Utah State University; Villanova; University of Illinois;
Vrije Universiteit Brussel/Universite Libre de Bruxelles; Thor
Heyerdahl High School in Larvik, Norway; Clark County School
District; Philadelphia Public Schools—and dozens of other
enterprises around the world.
Go to Market
Resellers and technology partners play a key role in our
business model and are integral parts of the Meru team.
The channel partners who resell our solutions are
dedicated to the development and promotion of Meru
wireless products and services and committed to enabling
the all-wireless enterprise and supporting diverse BYOD
environments. We support their efforts with sales and
technical training and support.
organizations are trained on partner products.
Solution Portfolio
A range of Meru products makes up the Meru Virtualized
Wireless LAN—an integrated solution developed specifically for
midsized to large organizations where high volumes of traffic
and essential applications depend on wireless networks.
Operating system: Meru System Director gives you
intelligent network control for reliable, scalable, predictable
Wi-Fi access.
Management software: Meru offers a complete range
of management tools for virtualized wireless LANs, from
advanced network management applications for predicting
and simplifying WLAN operations to complete security
management to a guest management solution for automating
onboarding devices in BYOD networks.
Controllers: Meru controllers deliver five times the capacity
of other controllers, without taking up more data center
space and power.
Virtual controllers: Meru virtual mobility controllers and
appliances give customers flexibility and choice in how
they deploy their wireless network. These VMware-based
virtual components operate on x86 computing platforms
in a VMware environment and can operate alongside other
enterprise applications on the same platform.
Access points: Meru access points are built specifically
with mobility in mind and engineered to avoid the costly and
complex overlay networks other architectures require.
Appliances: The Meru Services Appliance family delivers
comprehensive management of 802.11 networks and the
highest level of security.
Our technology partners—many of them specialists in specific
verticals or applications—give our customers
a variety of ways to enhance end-user experience with
products that interoperate seamlessly with the Meru Virtualized
WLAN solution. Partner products are tested for interoperability
with Meru solutions, and our field engineering and support
Meru Networks US Corporate
894 Ross Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
Tel: +1 (408) 215-5300
Fax: +1 (408) 215-5301
Email: meruinfo@merunetworks.com
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