Manage Your Wireless LAN with Meru Service ... - Meru Networks

Predict, Simplify, Scale, and Save
Meru provides the most comprehensive – and easy to use – integrated operations center for managing
mobile workflows. The Meru Service Assurance Management Suite provides a single point of visibility
into the application, RF virtualization, and hardware layers of the virtualized wireless network. With deep
visibility into every aspect of wireless communications, the ability for the access points to test each
other with live application data, and the resulting rich data available instantly, you CAN predict the user
experience, simplify management, and scale wireless network without overburdening already stretched
network operations staffing.
Meru Service Assurance Management Suite takes this user-centric view and understands both wireless
and wired environments without requiring network overlays or multiple hardware systems.
Predict
Traditional wireless environments keep IT staff on the defensive, but
Meru Service Assurance Management Suite helps you identify and
eliminate or mitigate issues before users experience their applicationdisrupting
affects significantly reducing calls to the helpdesk by
dissatisfied end users and lowering network operational costs.
Virtual clients sweep through the network, testing elements with
live application data and provide the results to the executive level
network health dashboard to highlight areas where users are most
likely to complain and enable you to direct your efforts to the most
critical areas first! You can see exactly what a client would experience
and immediately focus troubleshooting in the right place before you
ever receive a help desk call. Meru Service Assurance Management
Suite is the only system capable of using this integrated, user-centric,
predictive capability to reduce user downtime while also reducing the
number of calls to your help desk.
With Meru Service Assurance Management Suite you can easily
track statistics for predictive planning and quality monitoring. You
can forecast when quality will pass the service-affecting threshold
and alert IT before users experience issues. You can also automate
network tests, even in areas with no active users, to ensure that
users will have an optimal experience everywhere they go.
Simplify
Reduce or even eliminate the need to add staff for wireless LAN
management by leaving nothing to chance. In any wireless network
the vast majority of communication is done by users (clients) - in a
crowded network there can be 20-30 times more user traffic than
access point traffic. Since the virtualized WLAN is in control of the
communications of everything on the network and doesn’t leave
decision making to unpredictable clients, the Service Assurance
Management Suite can use all that information to provide unique
visibility down to a level that other systems simply miss out on - the
user. Other systems can’t correlate network issues to wireless user
events because they don’t understand or control the user state,
hence losing out on a vast majority of critical information needed
to accelerate root-cause analysis. Service Assurance Management
Suite leverages the visibility provided by virtualization into a range
of rich, integrated wireless services to greatly simplify network
operations:
:: Wireless Time Machine: Rewind and replay the history of the
entire network state, anytime, in any location, for any user or
device.
:: Client State Information: View details of client associations,
mobility, traffic, and station events.
:: Packet-level detail: See a detailed packet-level history of every
connection
:: Automated Correlation: Meru provides automatic correlation
between user and network events with automatic root-cause
inference.
:: Expert Systems: Meru provides answers, not more cryptic data
by performing heuristic analysis for identifying potential client and
infrastructure issues.
Scale
Meru Service Assurance Management Suite enables you to scale
the network and your staff with previously unimaginable ease.
Because Meru Service Assurance Management Suite and the Meru
virtualized wireless LAN together form a wireless application delivery
platform, you can add business critical applications to every location
– from headquarters to remote offices and branch locations – and
validate the applications’ performance without lifting a finger. The
global interface provides access to all wireless services and lets you
manage up to 25,000 access points per Service Assurance appliance,
regardless of where they are located. Manage from a desktop, laptop,
iPhone, or iPod Touch with customized dashboards, and leverage
virtual clients with remote diagnostic capabilities.
With Meru, the system manages the RF and puts you back in control
of your network.
Save
Meru customers find that a highly reliable network and detailed
visibility through Meru Service Assurance Management Suite
greatly reduces the number of network incidents and accelerates
troubleshooting to significantly reduce overall downtime. For
example, one Meru customer with a network of 1,000 access
points documented a 75 percent reduction in costs associated with
downtime and reduced actual hours of downtime by 80 percent.