VODA ONE STRENGTHENS GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS PORTFOLIO WITH AWARD-WINNING MERU NETWORKS WIRELESS LAN SYSTEM

Voda One Resellers Can Now Offer the Meru WLAN System and Security Services Module to Federal, State and Local Government Agencies

Sunnyvale, CA — August 23, 2006

Westcon Group, Inc., a multi-national distributor of convergence and IT security solutions, announced that Meru Networks the global innovation leader in wireless infrastructure for the All-Wireless Enterprise, has been added to its Comstor divisions’ GSA schedule 70, the country’s 9th largest by volume. This enables Westcon Group’s Voda One division to offer Meru’s award-winning wireless solutions to the government market via its Federal Edge program, while giving Meru a key contractual vehicle to access this rapidly expanding market.

Voda One can now offer the fast-growing government market the entire Meru Networks portfolio, including its ground-breaking Security Services Module (SSM), which delivers the industry’s only RF signal level security. The SSM module can be used in conjunction with Meru Access Points or Meru Radio Switches, and enables critical features for government agencies including continuous micro-scanning, radio jamming and transmission scrambling.

Steve Bernard, vice president and general manager of Voda One, commented: “Voda One, through its impressive Avaya-centric VoIP solutions portfolio and its Federal Edge program, is in a unique position to offer wireless solutions to the government that can boost efficiency and security. When combined with an Avaya convergence infrastructure, the Meru WLAN System represents an attractive growth opportunity in this market for both Meru and Voda One.”

“There is an ever-increasing demand for wireless security in U.S. government agency IT infrastructure,” commented Rachna Ahlawat, research director, enterprise networking, for Gartner Research. “Secure wireless transmissions are a pre-requisite for WLANs, and a mandatory requirement in most federal, state and local agencies. We see this trend increasing over time.”

Michael Tennefoss, Vice President of Marketing for Meru Networks, added, “The combination of Voda One’s convergence expertise, Comstor’s GSA contracting experience, and Meru’s best-in-class wireless LAN voice, data, and video solutions will allow Meru to expand significantly its presence in the federal, state and local government markets. Meru’s field-proven, secure wireless LAN solutions are ideal for a wide range of government applications, from economical voice, data, and/or video solutions that are overlayed on top of existing wired networks, to all-wireless implementations in green-field or retrofit applications, to tactical systems that can be deployed rapidly.”

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.

About Westcon Group
Westcon Group, Inc. is a global specialty distributor of networking and communications equipment for leading technology vendors, including Cisco Systems, Inc., Nortel Networks Corporation and Avaya, Inc. Through its Westcon, Comstor and Voda One divisions, Westcon Group sells products and services to resellers, systems integrators and service providers. Westcon Group has particular expertise in the convergence of voice, data and video applications and technologies, including voice-over Internet protocol, or VoIP, security for networking and communications systems, remote access, Internet and e-business, virtual private networks, videoconferencing and wireless connectivity. For more information, visit www.westcongroup.com.