Case Studies

Enterprise

Want to manage a LAN from your iPhone? There's an application for that...
Edifice Communications finds E(z)RF OnTheGo the right tool for their customers, with customisable real-time intuitive dashboards making the most of the limited screen area on mobile devices. The interface provides an at-a-glance view of essential performance metrics covering a global wireless LAN from anywhere, allowing network staff to easily navigate from the global dashboard to a local view of a specific controller in monitoring network health.

TechnoPark Pardubice (Czech Republic) Delivers Business-Class Telephony with Meru
TechnoPark Pardubice, an incubator business park for high-tech start-ups in the Czech Republic, needed a network to provide voice and data services to its technology companies.

Wireless networking with Meru using 802.11n for data and voice is better by design for leading European architects BDP
BDP, one of the largest interdisciplinary design practices in Europe, wanted a wireless LAN for its stunning new 33,000 square foot northern England headquarters overlooking the Piccadilly Canal Basin in Manchester.

Healthcare

Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare
Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare has been consistently recognized as one of the nation's top hospitals. Comprised of two campus locations, St. Luke's Home Long Term Care, and eight primary care offices, the hospital provides 614 beds and spans 1.3 million square feet.

LibertyHealth System Assures 24x7 Wireless Wellness
LibertyHealth had a wireless network in the emergency department for patient registration but it lacked the 24x7 reliability and seamless roaming for new emergency care applications that doctors, nurses, and pharmacists depend on. Learn how LibertyHealth addressed their network to enable new applications reliably; 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Progressive Parkview Health System deploys pervasive WLAN across all seven hospitals
As a leader in developing and using technology, Parkview was looking to create a work environment that better matched the inherently mobile nature of delivering patient care. After a successful pilot, Parkview rolled out a new wireless network based on the Meru Virtual Cell architecture to all of its seven hospital facilities. Now they are able to provide improved network reliability that supports new applications such as robotic monitors and bedside prescription verification.

Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham, England Chooses Meru
Royal Orthopaedic Hospital therapists needed access to a new wireless system with broad coverage and deployed quickly.

Higher Education

James Cook University
James Cook University (JCU), Queensland's second oldest university, is a multi-campus university of 17,500 students, with main campuses located in Townsville and Cairns, an international campus in Singapore, JCU Brisbane, and smaller study centres in Mount Isa, Thursday Island, and Mackay.

Meru Networks Delivers Belgium's Largest Campus-Wide Wireless Network
The campus of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel/Universite Libre de Bruxelles (VUB/ULB) features one of the largest green parks in the area–quite popular with students and the general public, many of whom enjoy the park's cafes and pubs during their lunch break. With this in mind, the VUB/ULB wanted to provide an innovative high-bandwidth WLAN network for voice and data–for students and visitors alike.

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.

Nicolaus Copernicus University (UMK), Poland Selects Meru for Seamless Roaming
Founded in 1945, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland is the largest university in Northwest Poland with 40,000 students.

K-12 Education

Bialik College
Bialik College, a K-12 school located in Victoria, Australia, provides a rich, diverse education that encourages lifelong learning. They sought a campus-wide solution that would be simple to implement and manage.

Farmington Municipal Schools
Farmington Municipal Schools embraced wireless networking across its' 11 elementary schools, four middle schools, and three high schools for years and wanted the ability to centrally manage a flexible wireless network.

Mentone Girls Grammar School
Mentone Girls Grammar School encourages students to be Internet-savvy, incorporating the use of online resources in relevant classes. Some of the applications of the school's multi-modal approach to technology include creating web pages, learning languages, displaying concepts in science and programming in non-traditional areas such as robotics.

Melbourne Girls School
From year five onwards at the 1,200 student school, every student is given a laptop that forms the basis of their education. The program gives students the opportunity to navigate, construct, publish and collaborate with others on a worldwide basis. With educational software, students are provided problem-solving opportunities, can create and display artwork and animations, facilitate multimedia presentations and share musical compositions.

Christian College extends it's tradition of excellence to wireless
Christian College, with 1800 students across six campuses, ensures that each child's learning experience is challenging and successful. They looked to Meru to reduce costs, complexity and IT support issues.

Meru Networks delivers next generation 802.11n wireless systems to next generation workforce.
For Thor Heyerdahl High School in Larvik, Norway - Meru Networks delivers a wireless network solution with the best roaming and capable of handling a large number of simultaneous clients in a challenging building structure. Dell had the overall responsibility for the deployment in close cooperation with Umoe IKT.

New Line Learning: Building wireless schools for the future
Working with Meru Networks and Pinnacle Partner Building Zones, New Line Learning deployed a wireless LAN based on a single-channel virtual cell architecture. Meru was chosen for its distinctive virtual cell wireless LAN set-up, which makes it capable of running 802.11n at full speed in both spectrums, whilst simultaneously supporting a constant high density of users without any dropouts, disconnections or other interruptions to service.

Meru's 802.11n System Gets an "A+" from Greene County Public Schools
Using their state-of-the-art Meru wireless network, students and school personnel alike are reaping the benefits of being able to successfully run applications over the air, including web-based assessments, instructional videos and presentations, along with internet-based learning and staff training.

Meru Networks makes the wireless grade with deployment at Heathland School
The Meru Networks solution gave 2000+ users the required access to the network at Heathland School, UK

Meru Goes Back to School, Blackfen School for Girls
Blackfen School for Girls, in Sidcup, Kent, is a fast-expanding school with more than 1200 pupils, including a thriving mixed sixth form. It has more than 200 full time staff.

Meru's 4th Generation Pervasive WiFi Teaches a Valuable Lesson
Varndean School is one of the largest and highest performing secondary modern comprehensive schools in Brighton & Hove, East Sussex. Sitting in a prominent position amongst three other educational institutions, the school campus is home to over 1,240, 11-16 year olds and some 200+ full and part time teaching and learning support staff.

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.

Hospitality

LOVE Stockholm
The Royal wedding between the HRH the Crown Princess Victoria and Mr Daniel Westling was celebrated with national and regional events in Sweden and the Nordics. Attended by over 700 of the world's media, as well as many visitors, the City of Stockholm built an entirely new media centre and created over fifty hotspots across the city to provide internet access for all of its guests.

The Langham
The Langham, lauded among five-star luxury Melbourne hotels for its 'service with poise' and natural sense of sophisication, ensures all guests can access high speed Internet anywhere in the hotel.

Meru Networks delivers carefully tailored grades of service differentiation
Norway Trade Fairs upgraded their Meru WLAN-solution to the next generation 802.11n standard to sure that their employees, exhibitors and visitors could rely on the wireless network throughout the entire 38,000 square meters exhibition area. The exhibitors have now a total area access to over 64,000 square meters fully covered by VoIP-enabled high speed wireless LAN and hot-spots provided by Meru Networks via their integrator Datek Installasjon.

Copperhill Mountain Lodge Uses Meru Networks for First-Class Conference Services
Copperhill Mountain Lodge has suites and rooms providing 420 beds, two restaurants and bars, a health spa, and a 600 seat conference center.

Meru Networks installed in a 800-year-old Dragsholm Castle
Dragsholm Castle is among Denmark's oldest functioning secular buildings. The original Dragsholm was built around 1215 by the Bishop of Roskilde and fortified during the Middle Ages which made for a uniquely challenging environment for wireless networking.

Retail

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.

Logistics

Nurminien Logistics Streamlines Commodities Flow at Busy Cargo Port
Nurminien Logistics, located in Finland's largest and most modern cargo port, needed a high-speed wireless network to support all their business-critical data links in the main facility which spans three terminals, one with a rail connection. It was essential that the WLAN covers a lot of ground, penetrating many obstructions, without the hassle and expense of a detailed site survey. Most importantly, the network had to be rock-solid reliable.