MERU NETWORKS RECEIVES 2006 INTERNET TELEPHONY® EXCELLENCE AWARD

Meru's Wireless Backbone System Honored for Delivering Exceptional Wireless Voice over IP (VoIP) Solutions
 

Sunnyvale, CA — October 3, 2006
Meru Networks, the global innovation leader in wireless infrastructure for the All-Wireless Enterprise, today announced that Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC®) INTERNET TELEPHONY® magazin (www.itmag.com) has named Meru's Wireless Backbone System a recipient of a 2006 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award. INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the VoIP Authority Since 1998™.

The Meru Wireless Backbone System is the first wireless solution in the industry to address the emerging All-Wireless Enterprise. This is evidenced by a growing need amongst enterprises of all types, including universities, K-12 school districts, hospitals, utilities, retailers, manufacturers and government agencies, to deploy wireless networking as a primary infrastructure. With Meru's Wireless Backbone System, enterprises can pervasively extend wireless networks that may have been installed initially for convenience, to transform entire remote, branch or headquarter office networks into high performance, all-wireless environments. Comprised of Meru Radio Switches, Access Points, Controllers and Meru's Wireless Backbone Software, the Wireless Backbone System can replace a wired backbone entirely with a completely wireless 802.11 backbone, while providing comparable levels of throughput, QoS and service fidelity.

"For the second year in a row, INTERNET TELEPHONY has selected Meru as a recipient of its prestigious Excellence Award, recognizing our continued technological innovation," said Lisa Schiltz, Senior Director of Corporate Marketing, Meru Networks. "More importantly, this award acknowledges the enthusiastic response we've had from customers and the growing trend within these enterprises towards deploying All-Wireless environments."

"The editorial staff of Internet Telephony magazine is proud to announce the winners of the second annual INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Awards. These companies are as varied as there are products that fit under the IP telephony umbrella, but they have all achieved delivering winning solutions for their customers' needs," indicated Rich Tehrani, Editor-in-Chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY.

Since the first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been providing unbiased views of the complicated converged communications space. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs and Minacom. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has a circulation of 55,000.

The 2006 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award winners will be published in the October 2006 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONYmagazine, www.itmag.com, or can be found directly online at http://www.tmcnet.com/awards/it-excellence-award-winners-2006.htm. For more information, please visit www.tmcnet.com.

About TMC® Technology Marketing Corporation
(TMC) publishes four print publications:Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, SIP Magazine and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 2,100 sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves more than one million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, The VoIP Developer Conference, VoIP Demo, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference. TMCnet.com publishes more than 15 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com. (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.)

About Meru Networks
Meru Networks is the global leader in wireless infrastructure solutions that enable the All-Wireless Enterprise. Its industry leading innovations deliver pervasive, wireless service fidelity for business-critical applications to major Fortune 500 enterprises, universities, healthcare organizations and local, state and federal government agencies. Meru's award-winning Air Traffic Control technology brings the benefits of the cellular world to the wireless LAN environment, and its WLAN System is the only solution on the market that delivers predictable bandwidth and over-the-air Quality of Service with the reliability, scalability, and security necessary to deliver converged voice and data services over a single WLAN infrastructure. 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.