Case Studies

Enterprise

• Meru Networks Enables the World's Largest All-Wireless Enterprise
  Osaka Gas had a vision to create the ultimate "address-free" office environment, where employeescould work anytime, anywhere with their wireless laptops. Osaka Gas realized, however, that true organization-wide efficiency could not be achieved through data access alone. To truly impact the speed of business communications, employees also needed telephony on-the-go.

Healthcare

• Meru Networks Leads the Industry in Providing Wireless Access to Mission
  Critical Applications in High-Density Healthcare Environments at the Sun Health Healthcare Network
  Based in Phoenix, Arizona, the Sun Health Healthcare Network provides care through two hospitals, a nursing school and a rehabilitation facility. Faced with outdated systems, a crucial need for reliable communication for doctors and staff, and a goal to deploy emerging technology to better serve its patients, Sun Health needed to upgrade it's wireless system to a next-generation, pervasive Wireless LAN (WLAN).
• St. John's Hospital Implements Wireless VoIP and Reaps Positive ROI in Less than 1 Year
  St. John's Hospital realized the advantages wireless mobility could provide to caregivers and other hospital staff many years ago. An early investment in 802.11b allowed case managers to enter patient information into the electronic medical record system. Using laptops, patient information could be entered directly, providing immediate updates to the patient record for other medical staff as well as reducing errors formerly due to transcription of written records. After seeing the dramatic improvement in just this one area, the IT administrators realized that a more pervasive wireless LAN that could support not just data, but also voice applications would provide even greater benefits.
• St. John's Hospital Enhances Patient Care With an Avaya and Meru Wireless Communications System
• St. Agnes Hospital Puts the Patient First by Combining the Most Advanced Medicine with the Most Advanced Wireless LAN
  St. Agnes has a long history of leadership in wireless network deployment to improve patient care. Even before the availability of Wi-Fi and the ratification of the IEEE 802.11 standard, they were one of the first hospitals to implement a wireless LAN. The vision for the St. Agnes IT and networking infrastructure has been driven by William Greskovich, VP and CIO. "It began almost 9 years ago when we decided to move to a Microsoft Windows based client server architecture. What was really driving that decision was the value of the internet and a ubiquitous approach to computing."
• University of Miami Medical Center Takes Patient Care to the Next Level with the Meru WLAN System
  As the only academic medical center in South Florida, the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami serves more than five million people, and it has earned international acclaim for research, clinical care, and biomedical innovations. The UM Miller School of Medicine has 770 faculty physicians and a total of 6,000 employees. In addition to the 76- acre complex of the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center in Miami, the school operates clinical facilities at the Miami Veterans Administration Medical Center, five primary care centers throughout Miami-Dade County, and a half-dozen area hospitals and clinics in cities like West Palm Beach, Naples, and Deerfield Beach.

Higher Education

• Meru Deploys the World's Fastest Wireless LAN at Morrisville State College
  With its legacy wireless infrastructure reaching end-of-life, Morrisville State College faced a major decision—deploy an 802.11a/b/g network or leap-frog legacy standards to deploy the latest Wi-Fi solution based on 802.11n.
• WISE Campus Relies on Meru Networks Wireless Technology
  Filton College in Bristol is among the United Kingdom’s fastest growing scholastic institutions, with more than 2,000 full-time academic and vocational students and an additional 10,000 part-time adult and 250 international learners. A key component of the College's approach to education is revealed in its mission statement: "to provide excellent teaching and learning and deliver a range of education and training opportunities designed to meet the needs of learners, communities and employers."
• Meru Networks Delivers Belgium's Largest Campus-Wide Wireless Network
  Wireless networks that are also VoIP-enabled are increasingly popular in dense user environments. Leveraging the WLAN infrastructure solution by Meru Networks, the Brussels Regional Informatics Centre (BRIC) on behalf of the Brussels-Capital region is now providing WLAN services across the entire Belgium's Vrije Universiteit Brussel/Universite Libre de Bruxelles campus.
• Northern Michigan University Deploys World's Highest Density Wireless Network
  Northern Michigan University has a long history of delivering academic excellence to the upper Midwest.Originally founded as Northern State Normal School in 1899 with a focus on educating teachers, it grew substantially in the 50's and 60's and was granted University status by the state of Michigan in 1963. The University now serves over 9600 students.
• Hobart and William Smith Colleges Achieve High-Performance Wireless Connectivity
  Hobart and William Smith Colleges (HWS) are coordinate, private, liberal arts institutionslocated in Geneva, N.Y. The Colleges have one of the nation's top study abroad programs and are noted for their dedication to community service. Home to three Rhodes Scholars, Hobartand William Smith provide an interdisciplinary education where learning is reinforced through on-campus academic centers and initiatives such as the Finger Lakes Institute, the Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men, and the President's Forum Lecture Series.
• State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook Unwires Hundreds with Confidence
  Established in 1957, Stony Brook is the largest university in the State University of New York (SUNY) educational system. Stony Brook is one of the leading public research institutions in the U.S. and one of only 10 universities awarded a National Science Foundation recognition award for integrating research and education.

K-12 Education

• Cohoes City Schools Deploys Innovative Wireless Security and Mobile Education System
  Although the Cohoes City School District is relatively small, size hasn't stopped it from deploying one of the nation's most advanced wireless educational networks. Located in upstate New York just north of Albany, Cohoes is a former manufacturing center that prides itself on the quality of life it provides its 15,000 residents and the education the city's 2,150 students receive.
• St. Agnes Academy Supports One-to-One Laptop Education with Meru Wireless Networking
  Founded in 1906, St. Agnes Academy is a four-year high school for young women located in the southwest corner of Houston, Texas. Rooted in the Dominican tradition, St. Agnes Academy provides a Catholic college preparatory education that encourages young women to develop intellectual curiosity, to work for social justice and to act with integrity and compassion.
• Wireless Upgrade Enables High-Performance Mobile Computing without the Hassle at One of the Nation's
  Largest Lutheran Schools
  Now in its 28th academic year, Faith Lutheran Jr. / Sr. High School has a long tradition of providing quality education through a rigorous curriculum that is effective in equipping students with skills in technology, social interactions, citizenship, and the traditional academic disciplines. In keeping with the school's mission, Faith Lutheran integrates educational computing technologies to deliver the greatest academic benefits and to enhance the overall learning experience of its learning community of 1250-students and 90-teacher and staff.

Retail & Hospitality
 

• Distributor Banks on Meru to Assure No Missed Phone Calls
  The lifeblood of fast-paced businesses like Anthony Marano Company in Chicago is real-time voice communications. In fact, a single missed phone call guarantees missed revenue for the 58-year-old fruits and vegetables distributor. The company deployed Meru's Wireless LAN for Enterprise Fixed Mobile Convergence and T-Mobile's Unified Mobile Access (UMA)-based dual-mode Wi-Fi/cellular service. The Meru single-channel virtual cell architecture allows employees to now reliably receive and generate calls while in motion, which hadn't been possible before. Also, with the Meru WLAN architecture, the smartphone's battery life now lasts an entire workday.
   
• Hyatt Regency Osaka Deploys Hotel-Wide Wireless VoIP System: New System Rivals Wired Dial-Tone Quality
  Hyatt faced two problems that required a solution. First, Internet access from guest rooms needed to be improved from the slow dial-up only access. Second, Hotel staff needed a better communication device than the pocket pagers they had been carrying. Initially, Hyatt considered installing a wired broadband service to each room and installing a Handy System (PHS) for its hotel staff. Deploying two independent solutions, however, was not economically feasible.
   
• Retailer's Wireless Growth Requires Contention Solution
  When Pacific Sunwear moved to new offices in Anaheim, Calif., in 2001 because of continued company growth, the company decided to implement wireless LANs in both the 180,000-square-foot corporate offices and in the adjoining 360,000-square-foot distribution center. Ron Ehlers, the retailer's vice president of information services, went with what were then state-of-the-art wireless LANs, one with about 16 access points from Cisco Systems in the corporate offices and one with 23 access points from Symbol Technologies in the distribution center.