MERU NETWORKS AND INNERWIRELESS TEAM TO
BRING COMPREHENSIVE WIRELESS NETWORKING SOLUTIONS TO THE
HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY
Announce Foote Hospital as First Integrated Deployment
Sunnyvale, CA – February 26, 2007
Meru Networks, the global leader in wireless infrastructure
solutions that enable the All-Wireless Enterprise, and
InnerWireless, the leading provider of in-building wireless
solutions, today announced that InnerWireless has joined the
Meru Networks VoIP Unplugged Program. InnerWireless and Meru
have completed extensive interoperability testing between their
products, have begun to jointly market and sell their solutions
and have secured their first joint customer, Foote Hospital in
Jackson, Michigan.
Meru's patented virtual cell-based wireless IP technology and
seamless single channel architecture is setting the benchmark
for interoperability, high-performance converged voice and data
and geographical coverage within the enterprise. When teamed
with the InnerWireless unified wireless platform, which provides
continuous, reliable in-building coverage for a full range of
wireless services, devices and applications, the resulting
solution is ideal for environments with high density and a wide
variety of mission critical devices and applications, such as in
hospitals and other clinical settings.
This combined solution offers healthcare organizations
unprecedented quality and reliability of service, enabling
predictable performance for life-critical applications and
allowing the organization to improve patient care. The solution
is also cost-effective and lets organizations lower
administrative costs, meet regulatory requirements and
effectively respond to government mandates.
The first shared deployment from Meru and InnerWireless is Foote
Hospital. "In the hospital we have a large number of disparate
devices that all need to work with our wireless network," said
Rick Warren, vice president and CIO for Foote Hospital "These
include cellphones, wireless badges, Wi-Fi enabled phones,
mobile carts, infusion pumps and much more. With the Meru
Wireless LAN (WLAN) and the InnerWireless unified wireless
platform, we have the various frequencies we need everywhere in
the hospital for all of these devices. Other solutions weren't
able to provide us with the guaranteed coverage and wireless
network stability we needed for this environment."
"Meru has established itself as a leader in the new generation
of pervasive, converged voice and data wireless LANs that
healthcare organizations are rapidly adopting," said Chris
Click, vice president of marketing, InnerWireless. "Combining
Meru's single channel WLAN System with our unified broadband
wireless distribution platform gives hospitals and healthcare
facilities a powerful, wireless networking solution, with
guaranteed coverage that can greatly enhance their productivity,
improve patient care and reduce costs."
"The partnership with InnerWireless combines our two companies'
core competencies, allowing us to deliver the best wireless
solutions to healthcare organizations and expand upon the
success Meru has already achieved in this market," said Ken
Creager, senior director of strategic markets, Meru Networks. "Meru's
ability to deliver a seamless, single channel architecture that
provides capacity, performance and quality of service, combined
with the InnerWireless platform's guarantee of coverage provides
a high value proposition for the healthcare enterprise."
Meru's partnership with Innerwireless is part of a best in class
approach to supply seamless communications and collaboration
solutions to the healthcare enterprise. Meru's products are
synergistic with the InnerWireless "Layered Architecture," both
built for pervasive coverage, network optimization and
performance as well as ease-of-use.
InnerWireless joins an already impressive list of Meru VoIP
Unplugged Partners, including Fujitsu, Juniper Networks, Ascom,
SpectraLink and Vocera, among many others.
About Meru Networks
Meru Networks is the global leader in wireless mobility
infrastructure solutions for Fortune 500 educational,
healthcare, enterprise, and government markets. Its
industry-leading innovations deliver pervasive, robust wireless
service for business-critical applications. Meru's award-winning
Air Traffic Control technology brings the benefits of the
cellular world to the WLAN environment, and it offers the only
solution on the market that delivers the reliability,
scalability, and security necessary for 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 +1-408-215-5300.
About InnerWireless
InnerWireless, Inc. guarantees wireless coverage inside
hospitals and healthcare-related facilities with Horizon, its
Medical-grade Wireless Utility, a unified, broadband wireless
distribution platform. Engineered to support a full range of
wireless services and applications, Horizon enables wireless
systems essential for interpersonal communications, clinical
operations, and building operations. In addition, InnerWireless
has launched Spot to provide wireless, high-assurance location
tracking for hospital assets, clinical staff and patients. For
more information about InnerWireless, visit
www.InnerWireless.com.