Meru Mobile SCALE Single-Cell Architecture
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Meru’s unique architecture allows for a single-channel span, eliminating the need for complex coverage and channel planning and re-planning when deploying an 802.11n solution. It also allows administrators to more easily compensate for coverage holes and delivers predictable, higher performance in the face of fluctuating data rates that are created by the Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) technology used by 802.11n networks. With the unique channel-layering capability, Meru’s Mobile SCALE solution delivers the industry’s highest wireless capacity throughout a pervasive wireless LAN deployment.
With applications like wireless VoIP deployed alongside high density data, the network must provide mobile SCALE - Secure Converged Applications for Leading Enterprises. Meru’s mobile SCALE architecture is recognized by Gartner as the industry visionary solution.
Secure - Meru provides security in multiple dimensions. Customers can be secure in the knowledge that the network is based on industry standards and certified compliant, by the Wi-fi Alliance. Meru also takes network and information security as seriously as customers, providing multiple layers of security with AirShield 2.0, with support for every major industry security standard, such as WPA2, 802.11i, 802.1x. and provides additional innovations like Air Firewall, that allow customers to not only detect rogue AP’s once they are connected, but also to stop rogue users from connecting at all.
Converged Applications - Data, voice, and video; all running together with large numbers of clients over the wireless infrastructure with wired-like quality. Now these applications can finally catch up to the needs of the mobile workforce. With a wireless VoIP handset, there’s no longer a choice between being tethered to a desk or racking up big mobile phone bills. With smart phones and other intelligent handhelds, there is instant access to business applications anywhere, anytime.
Leading Enterprises - Going mobile with assured delivery of business-critical applications means staying one step ahead of the competition. Companies do not achieve success by making the same choices as everyone else. Meru’s Mobile SCALE Architecture is designed with leaders in mind.
How is Meru's Mobile SCALE Delivered?
- Air Traffic Control
Meru’s unique core technologies include inter-cell coordination, over-the-air QoS, and contention management for density, all designed to yield the following capabilities and benefits:
Virtual cells with Inter-cell coordination:
- No channel planning and re-planning ensures fast deployment and lower operational costs
- APs can be deployed at full power reducing equipment and installation costs
- Infrastructure-controlled assignment of clients to APs increases performance and reliability
- Zero handoff across APs maintains high-quality VoIP connections and increased reliability for business critical applications
Channel Layering:
- Add capacity on demand
- 2-3X the throughput in 802.11n deployments
- Seamless migration to 802.11n with no performance tradeoffs
Application-Aware Optimization:
- Over-the-air quality of service– both upstream and downstream
- Toll-quality voice, even in the presence of data.
- Air-time fairness for diverse 802.11abgn clients ensures optimal performance for mixed-mode environments
Wireless Backbone System:
- Enterprise wireless mesh
- APs may go anywhere there is power
- Enables the all wireless enterprise
- Three Tier Traffic Distribution System (3TDS)
The Meru 3 Tier Traffic Distribution System (3TDS), a flexible and immensely scalable system that is independent of underlying network backbone topology, will be available later this year as a software option to the Meru System Director operating system. 3TDS is an innovative new architecture for 802.11n-based Wi-Fi networks that eliminates the conflict between mobility and scale, by completely separating the control and data traffic, network wide. This will significantly reduce costs of a 802.11n migration by enabling enterprises to meet the heavy throughput demands of 802.11n without making expensive upgrades to the wired Ethernet switching backbone.
Features and Benefits:
- Enables wired networks to accommodate the increased load of 802.11n while protecting expensive investments in existing switching infrastructure
- Keep legacy bg clients on 1-3 2.4Ghz channel spans
- Option to deploy n clients on 1x 40Mhz @ 2.4Ghz and 3x 40Mhz @5Ghz
- Infrastructure-controlled, automated client assignment to best AP
- Zero channel planning, initial deployment on a single 40Mhz channel
- Coverage holes easily plugged with additional APs on same channel span w/ no impact on coverage plan
- Zero penalty for coverage errors
- Highly flexible 3-Tier Traffic Distribution System provides incremental throughput addressed by separating control and data planes, allowing central control with distributed data forwarding
- Investments in existing wireless controllers protected
- Investments in existing switched Ethernet infrastructure protected
- Incremental data throughput added with each new Distribution Point
- Immensely scalable and flexible system may be customized to meet the management and traffic processing requirements of any network
- Air Shield Security (3TDS)
Multiple Lines of Defense Against Wireless Threats (Meru Security), including:
- Over-the-air security
- Back-end integration
- Application and user-aware firewalling
- Location-based security
- Management & Deployment Application
Comprehensive network management, coverage planning tools and location management for the planning, monitoring, securing, and administration of Meru Networks systems (E(z)RF Application Suite).
