The Most Advanced WLAN Operations Center: Delivering Wireless like Wired™ Reliability


Predict
Traditional wireless environments keep IT staff on the defensive, but Meru Service Assurance Management Suite helps you identify and eliminate or mitigate issues before users experience their application-disrupting affects significantly reducing calls to the helpdesk by dissatisfied users and lowering operational costs.

Simplify
Reduce or even eliminate the need to add staff for wireless LAN management by leaving nothing to chance. Service Assurance Management Suite uses information provided by Meru's virtualized wireless LAN architecture to provide the ability to review what has happened, what is happening, and what may happen over the air and on your wired network.

Scale
Meru Service Assurance Management Suite enables you to scale the network and your existing network operations staff by allowing them to tackle problems on the network anywhere and at anytime with previously unimaginable ease. Because Meru Service Assurance Management Suite and the Meru virtualized wireless LAN together form a wireless application delivery platform, you can add business critical applications to every location -from headquarters to remote offices and branch locations - and validate the applications performance without lifting a finger.


Features include:

Advanced trouble-prevention Service Assurance Manager (SAM) is WLAN industry's unique advanced trouble-prevention application that leverages the existing Meru WLAN infrastructure to perform end-to-end system tests either on-demand or automatically at periodic configurable intervals.

OnTheGo management. Meru is the only wireless LAN vendor to enable network management through an iPhone. E(z)RF OnTheGo is not simply a way for network managers to receive status updates. It is a full-featured management application that allows many problems to be diagnosed and fixed without touching a PC, whether the iPhone is connected through a cellular link or the wireless LAN itself.

Complete event history. E(z)RF Network Manager includes a relational database that tracks and stores important network events such as state changes. This makes it easy to recreate the conditions that lead to an issue. Troubleshooting that takes days with a competitors’ system can take only minutes.

Context-preserving navigation. The Web 2.0 user interface of E(z)RF Network Manager makes it easy to move from a birds-eye view of a global network to a fish-eye view of an individual client, preserving context while doing so.

Automated diagnostic inferences. Where other management tools force IT staff to perform manual troubleshooting, E(z)RF Network Manager automatically diagnoses. more than 100 common issues.

No channel planning. Competitors offer management suites that try to automate the complex process of channel planning. Meru does not, as its Virtual Cell architecture makes channel planning unnecessary. There is no need for software that tries to recalculate channel and power settings in response to each new access point or interference source.

Accurate positioning. Most location systems rely on triangulation alone. Meru uses RF Fingerprinting, a more accurate technique that compares the received signal strength at each AP to an RF map of the building. Meru’s single-channel architecture also improves location-tracking accuracy, as each client’s signal is picked up by more access points than in a microcell network.