Meru Networks Wins Landmark Enterprise Wireless Voice Over IP Network Deal
Osaka Gas to Deploy Meru's Wireless LAN System for World's Largest Fixed Mobile Convergence Deployment SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 26 Meru Networks, the global leader in wireless VoIP infrastructure, today announced that Osaka Gas, one of Japan's largest national utilities, has selected Meru's Wireless LAN (WLAN) System for a pervasive wireless Voice over IP (VoIP) network that will serve the organization's 50 offices, including its headquarters in Osaka, Japan. Using Meru's innovative WLAN System -- the only WLAN solution purpose-built to handle voice over wireless -- and NTT DoCoMo's dual- mode Cellular/Wi-Fi service and handsets, Osaka Gas will provide converged, wireless data and voice services to employees across the organization. With the combined Meru and NTT DoCoMo solution, Osaka Gas employees can have true one-number access, with voice calls running over the corporate wireless LAN indoors, and handing off to NTT DoCoMo's cellular service when roaming outdoors. After a thorough evaluation of WLAN vendors including Cisco, NEC/Airespace and Aruba Networks, Osaka Gas selected Meru's WLAN System because of its key wireless VoIP technical advantages. Among these is its patented, award-winning Air Traffic Control technology that brings the benefits of the cellular world to the wireless LAN environment and offers the manageability, reliability, scalability, and security necessary to deliver converged voice and data services over a single WLAN infrastructure. Specifically, Osaka Gas was impressed with Air Traffic Control technology because it makes deployment much simpler, enables the highest calls per access point, and seamlessly hands off across APs while preserving dial-tone quality even during the hand-off. In addition, Meru's new Voice Service Module (VSM) (announced today) that enables advanced call admission control and load balancing of calls based on the resources available, was key in giving Osaka's users a wireline voice quality experience. "Our solution has been widely received in Japan where enterprises are aggressively adopting and deploying wireless VoIP," said Meru's President and CEO, Ihab Abu-Hakima. "For enterprises like Osaka Gas that are rolling out pervasive wireless LANs for wireless VoIP, Meru's WLAN System stands head and shoulders above the competition as the only solution that can meet their requirements for scalability, manageability, reliability and quality." In March of 2005, Meru announced partnerships with three of the four top VoIP systems manufacturers and solution providers in Japan: Oki Electric, Hitachi High-Technologies and Fujitsu I-Networks. With these strong partnerships and Meru's technical leadership, the company has emerged as market leader for wireless VoIP, winning a number of large, enterprise customers including Itoki, a major retailer that runs wireless VoIP. The activity in Japan is indicative of worldwide growth in the wireless VoIP market. According to a recently-issued report from Infonetics Research entitled WiFi Phones Biannual Worldwide Market Size and Forecast, the total market for Wi-Fi handsets is expected to grow 224% between CY2004 and CY2005 and predicts total revenues of over $3 billion by CY2009. Infonetics cites steady adoption of VoIP and WLAN as major factors in this growth and believes that 2004 was a breakthrough year for voice over IP adoption, particularly in North America. About Meru Networks Meru Networks is a global leader in Wireless Voice over IP (VoIP) infrastructure solutions. With its innovative, award-winning Air Traffic Control technology that brings the benefits of the cellular world to the wireless LAN environment, Meru's WLAN System is the only solution on the market that offers the reliability, scalability, and security necessary to deliver converged voice and data services over a single WLAN infrastructure. Meru's Wireless LAN System provides major Fortune 500 enterprises, universities, and healthcare organizations with the predictable bandwidth and over-the- air Quality of Service required to support a wide range of current and future wireless applications. Founded in 2002, Meru is based in Sunnyvale, California. For more information on Meru Networks and its products, visit www.merunetworks.com or call 408-215-5300. --------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- Source: Meru Networks http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wirelesslan/ http://www.wlanforum.com/ http://www.wireless--lan.com/ http://www.mail-archive.com/wirelesslan@yahoogroups.com/maillist.html http://www.mail-archive.com/wirelesslan@yahoogroups.com/index.html Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wirelesslan/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
