MERU NETWORKS TO SHOWCASE THE BENEFITS OF WIRELESS NETWORKING AT THE AVAYA NATIONAL PUBLIC SERVICE SUMMIT

Sixth Annual Avaya Event Focused on Solutions for Education, Healthcare and State and Local Governments
 

Sunnyvale, CA — December 4, 2006
Meru Networks, the global innovation leader in wireless infrastructure for the All-Wireless Enterprise, will demonstrate the benefits of a converged wireless network for delivering mobility solutions that keep workers connected in educational environments and healthcare organizations at the 2007 Avaya National Public Service Summit, being held this week in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Meru is a premier member of the Avaya DeveloperConnection program, which certified the interoperability of Meru's Wireless LAN System with Avaya's Internet protocol (IP) telephony solutions. Together, Meru's innovative, standards-based WLAN technology and Avaya's leadership in global IP telephony provide customers with converged voice, data and video applications over wireless LAN networks that extend intelligent business communications capabilities to mobile workers. Public services organizations can obtain Meru's complete wireless LAN (WLAN) portfolio through Avaya direct and indirect channels.

Healthcare and Education Customers Benefit from WLAN Applications
St. John's Hospital in Springfield, Illinois, successfully deployed a campus mobility solution that includes both Avaya IP telephony solutions and Meru's Wireless LAN system to improve patient point-of-care and deliver improved ROI to its organization.

"The system is working so well, we are regularly receiving unsolicited requests to expand it to additional areas and applications," said Gretchen Niehaus, director of IT and Telecommunications, St. John's Hospital. "We expect it to save us $2 million dollars in just its first year."

The School District of Philadelphia, the seventh largest school district in the country, servicing over 210,000 students across 278 schools, is using Meru's wireless LAN System to deliver mobile Internet access, educational applications and instructional management tools to students, administrators and faculty in its School of the Future.

"Meru's WLAN System is able to handle high density environments, such as auditoriums, libraries, cafeterias and classrooms," said Bob Westall, executive director for Information Technology, School District of Philadelphia. "We were impressed with Meru's QoS capabilities which will enable the School of the Future to handle converged voice, data and video over the wireless network as we expand our applications in the future to include media rich content delivery and remote classroom training and to facility communication between instructors, students and administrators."

Avaya National Public Service Summit
Meru Networks is a Platinum sponsor of the Avaya National Public Service Summit, now in its sixth consecutive year.

"Our annual Public Services Summit helps us keep a sharp focus on the unique needs of public organizations," said Kevin Cook, vice president, North America, Avaya. "We're able to collaborate with partner companies to share tools and strategies and to drive a new generation of solutions that can help organizations improve service to their constituents and get more out of their communications investment."

Nearly three dozen Avaya partner companies are speaking and exhibiting at the event, which is attended by Avaya executives, the company's public services sales and support teams, industry consultants, Avaya BusinessPartners, Global AlliancePartners and members of the Avaya DeveloperConnection program, an initiative to develop, market and sell innovative third-party products that interoperate with Avaya technology.

About Avaya
Avaya Inc. designs, builds and manages communications networks for more than 1 million businesses worldwide, including over 90 percent of the FORTUNE 500®. Focused on businesses large to small, Avaya is a world leader in secure and reliable Internet protocol (IP) telephony systems and communications software applications and services.
Driving the convergence of voice and data communications with business applications - and distinguished by comprehensive worldwide services - Avaya helps customers leverage existing and new networks to achieve superior business results. For more information visit the Avaya website:
www.avaya.com.

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.