MERU NETWORKS POSITIONED IN VISIONARIES
QUADRANT OF LATEST WIRELESS LAN MAGIC QUADRANT
Global WLAN Solutions Provider Credits Success to Innovative
Technologies that Meet Customer Needs
Sunnyvale, CA — October 24, 2006
Meru Networks, the global innovation leader in wireless
infrastructure for the All-Wireless Enterprise, today announced
that it has been listed in the Visionaries Quadrant in the
Wireless LAN version of Gartner's well-known industry report,
the Gartner Magic Quadrant1. The new report, released October 6,
2006, evaluates wireless LAN vendors based on their completeness
of vision and ability to execute. According to Gartner, a
Visionary demonstrates an ability to increase features in its
offering to provide a unique and differentiated approach to the
market. A Visionary will have innovated in one or more of the
key areas of WLAN technologies (convergence, security,
management or operational efficiency).
According to Gartner's 2005 technology-adoption survey,
published on March 23, 20062, "Wireless e-mail and campus-wide
wireless LAN have migrated to mainstream deployment and are
rated as having high organizational value by most that have used
them." The report also stated, "Organizations that are not yet
using these technologies should immediately evaluate their
potential."
"Wireless LAN (WLAN) technologies have matured…WLANs are
becoming a standard part of enterprise networks. They are no
longer confined to meeting rooms or visitors areas; they are now
being deployed to cover entire facilities," states the Gartner,
Inc. October 6 Magic Quadrant for Wireless LAN Infrastructure
report.
"It is very gratifying to have both Meru's vision and execution
strategy validated, in our opinion, by Gartner, an organization
long recognized for its IT vision," said Ihab-Abu Hakima,
President and CEO of Meru Networks. "Meru is fully committed to
driving innovative solutions into this market in response to
customer needs. Customers worldwide have enthusiastically
embraced Meru's wireless LAN platform and reaped the ROI and
productivity benefits of our innovative architecture. The result
has been a dramatic increase in customer deployments of Meru's
infrastructure solutions for the All-Wireless Enterprise – a
trend that we believe is accurately captured by Gartner's latest
Magic Quadrant."
About The Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted October 2006 by Gartner, Inc.
and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical
representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time
period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors
measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by
Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service
depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology
users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders"
quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research
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this research, including any warranties of merchantability or
fitness for a particular purpose.
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.
1. Magic Quadrant for Wireless LAN Infrastructure, 2006, Rachna
Ahlawat and Ken Dulaney, October 6, 2006.
2. Survey Shows Adoption and Value of Emerging Technologies,
Jackie Fenn, March 23, 2006.
