UNIVERSITIES AND K-12 SCHOOLS MOVE TO THE ALL-WIRELESS CAMPUS WITH MERU NETWORKS

Innovator in Wireless Infrastructure Leads National Trend with 70+ Education Deployments in Past 12 Months

Sunnyvale, CA — September 18, 2006

Meru Networks, the global innovation leader in wireless infrastructure for the All-Wireless Enterprise, today announced that with more than 70 educational institutions deploying its Wireless LAN System pervasively throughout their campuses, the company is leading the emerging trend towards the All-Wireless Campus. Meru has delivered its WLAN solutions to 42 universities and colleges and 28 K-12 school districts, which are using their Wireless LAN as the primary connectivity mode for Internet access, educational applications, and instructional management tools for students, administrators and faculty.

With landmark deployments like the School of the Future, a partnership between the School District of Philadelphia, the nation's 7th largest school district, and Microsoft (announced in a separate release last week), Northern Michigan University (NMU), the wireless network with the world's highest WLAN user density at 100+ active users per Access Point, and the University of Texas at Dallas' campus-wide, converged mobile VoIP and data wireless LAN, Meru has become the platform of choice for the Education sector's next-generation wireless networks.

Educational institutions are looking to reengineer education using technology to address teacher/student ratio, changing curriculum and administrative processes. Meru's wireless network infrastructure plays a critical role in this initiative, as it uniquely delivers the seamless mobility and fast, easy access to multimedia learning applications, online curriculum and instructional content, necessary for an "anytime, anywhere" learning environment.

At universities, wireless is increasingly the primary means of communication for students, administrators and faculty and is quickly becoming the most productive, efficient and cost-effective means of accessing critical applications daily. K-12 school districts are now following suit and adopting innovative, next-generation wireless-enabled IT infrastructure strategies. Funded largely through government subsidies and private grants, an increasing number of K-12 schools are integrating wireless and mobile technologies to better meet instructional demands and provide their users with greater convenience and more resources. Wireless also has the added benefit of eliminating many of the costs associated with traditional wired networks throughout the schools.

"Although other WLAN vendors have touted deployments in the education sector, this is the first time we've seen such a significant number of K-12 districts, universities and colleges moving to an All-Wireless environment," said Richard Webb, Directing Analyst, Wireless Broadband and Mobile for Infonetics Research. "With deployments such as the Philadelphia School District's School of the Future, educational institutions now have a model to follow – one that demonstrates the productivity and ROI benefits that can be achieved with this kind of wireless infrastructure. The Meru Networks next-generation platform is optimized for pervasive, campus-wide deployments of converged voice, data and video, and this has enabled Meru to position itself as a leading wireless infrastructure vendor within the education market."

Amongst the many K-12 institutions that have adopted Meru technology over the past 12 months are Philadelphia School District's School of the Future, Mona Shores School District, Hilton Central School District, Rush-Henrietta School District, The Presentation School, New Castle Schools and Victor Central School District.

One such customer, Mona Shores, a K-12 school district in Muskegon, Michigan, has deployed Meru's Wireless LAN System across its entire district. Serving approximately 4,300 students, 225 teachers and 550 employees, the WLAN will serve as the primary access network for these users, providing cost-effective, high-speed Internet access, email, streaming media, standards-based testing, grading, web-page authoring and a variety of database applications. After evaluating several WLAN solutions, including Cisco's, Mona Shores, partnering with Arialink Broadband out of Lansing Michigan, determined that Meru's WLAN System, with its coordinated, cellular-like architecture, was the most advantageous for its deployment. Said Lane White, Director of Technology, Mona Shores School District, "Meru's unique single channel approach dramatically simplified deployment and management of our wireless network. With Meru's WLAN System, we are saving time and money from both the administrative perspective, as well as saving teachers and students valuable time in the classroom. This translates into a better learning environment for the students in our district."

Meru has also won a number of higher education deployments including State University of New York (SUNY) Farmingdale, Cedarville University, Truckee Meadows Community College, Boise State University, College of Engineering, Washington State University, St. Louis, and Nazareth College. These sites add to the extensive list of higher education institutions already using Meru equipment including: Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Northern Michigan University, University of Illinois, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Stonybrook University and University of Texas at Dallas.

Hobart and William Smith Colleges (HWS), a coordinate, private, liberal arts institution in Geneva, N.Y., experienced growing demand for wireless connectivity from its 2,300 member community of students and faculty since an initial WLAN installation in 2002. HWS deployed Meru's WLAN System in 2005 to solve many of the problems they experienced with traditional WLAN solutions including co-channel interference that resulted when neighboring WLAN access points overlapped their coverage areas, and the performance degradation that occurred in classrooms when an increasing number of users quickly overwhelmed the legacy wireless equipments' ability to maintain quality connections.

"Our Wireless LAN has become a fundamental part of our overall IT Strategy," said Mike Ruiz, network and systems engineer at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. "It is a key factor in delivering a technology enriched social and academic learning environment; it is also a very useful supplement to our wired network for business needs. Meru's WLAN System was absolutely the only platform on which we could build this kind of pervasive wireless network, serving both the current and future needs of our Colleges."

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.