Meet Ernest Lehmann, Bryant & Stratton CIO.  Have a listen as he walks you through his experience with Meru’s virtualized wireless LAN solution.

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Response to the Marketing Guy…

by Joel on August 17, 2010

Well Meru fans, it seems that Dave Callisch and team is back at it with the keyboard muscles again. They posted a response to my 60 seconds on Hole 196 (of course, no name was left on this comment, he just called himself “black hole” e.g. keyboard muscles) asking what you’d expect a competitor to ask – questioning the capabilities of virtualization and the different operating modes and furthering his rant in a blog post; pretending to be authority on our company and technology and propagating misinformation in that role. That’s all fine. Nearly a decade has gone by and we’ve been fielding the same questions from the same folks for almost that whole time (regardless of the competitor – same story). But lets see if someone as simple minded as the me, a marketing guy, can address this highly technical reasoning; because all evidence to the contrary, they still think we will fail, virtualization can’t scale, and some other things I don’t bother remembering off the top of my head.

OK, first up… [click to continue…]

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Hey, I’m Joel – the Marketing Guy.  And I’m making myself a target for your benefit.  Now, we all know marketing guys aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed so I figure why not put a challenge out there.  Here it is:

Meru has spent the last decade innovating wireless LANs and has created virtualized wireless LANs for large companies.  That’s all cool and there are some really technical explanations as to what all is going on that my simple mind can’t handle.  But Meru’s main value proposition is pretty easy to understand – simplicity on a large scale.  So I’ve decided to explain some topics that seem really complicated or others try to make sound complicated (pretty typical for tech vendor marketing departments) but that Meru really makes simple an understandable.

Basically, I figure if I can explain it, being the simpleton marketing flack that I am, then it MUST be easy!

Get it?  OK.  Here we go.  First up – The Fix for Hole 196 with Meru’s virtualized wireless LAN.  Think I can do it?  Check it out:

 

Any questions?  Leave some comments for me and I’ll see if I can wrap my brain around them.

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“Hole 196″ – Hey Microcell…the wheels are coming off!

July 28, 2010 Industry Insights

Here’s the summary of the issue as described by industry security experts:
Security experts at AirTight Networks have discovered a hole in the WPA2 Wi-Fi security protocol. The security hole was named as Hole 196 after the number of the relevant page in the IEEE 802.11 (2007) standard document. At the bottom of page 196, the [...]

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Limits of “Adaptive” and “Dynamic” Wi-Fi(TM) – This is only the beginning…

July 27, 2010 Industry Insights

Universities are experiencing significant growth rates of Wi-Fi devices on their campus networks. Some estimate that students bring 3-4 Wi-Fi devices to campus with them. So it should be no surprise what the top priority is for prospective freshman selecting a college or university. Yep, you guessed it, Wi-Fi connectivity and performance. According to a [...]

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The iPhone 4’s Weakest Link: the Network

June 15, 2010 Behind the Lab Coats

Steve Jobs is a master at showmanship–not just in his presentations, but with the products his company, Apple, creates.  A goal that was seen in the original Macintosh but taken to near completion with the iPhone and iPad, Apple has sought to completely own the user experience, integrating various parts together into a seamless package [...]

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Airtime Fairness Part Duex: Finishing Up on Another Technological Remedy to Demo-bacle

June 11, 2010 Behind the Lab Coats

Airtime FairnessTM is a unique capability in Meru’s virtualized WLAN architecture that could’ve further supported what Jobs was trying to accomplish. 
Make no mistake about it, the ability to create true Airtime FairnessTM requires the system to have real-time awareness of the state of the network and react appropriately locally.  “Think Global, Act Local” as [...]

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iPhone’s Wi-Fi™ Meltdown: Wakeup Call for Your Enterprise

June 10, 2010 Industry Insights

We have all seen Steve Job’s disbelief when he unveiled the iPhone 4 Live Demo, and it didn’t work.  Can this happen to you in your enterprise?  Yes. We’re running a webinar that discusses the iPhone 4 Demo-bacle but we are not talking about Steve Job’s or the iPhone 4 “wifi meltdown”.  We’re talking about [...]

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Airtime Fairness: Another Way To Help Avoid the iPhone 4 Demo-bacle

June 10, 2010 Meru in the Wild

A couple days removed now, this story has gone from an interesting case study in “why does Meru do what we do?” to something that is sharing top billing with the BP Oil Disaster (in all fairness, that may be more a failing of the US news reporting than the significance of the iPhone 4 [...]

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Grading the WLAN Spectrum Analysis Architectures

June 9, 2010 Industry Insights

With the recent series of announcements by enterprise WLAN vendors about including spectrum analysis into their products, let’s dig a little deeper into spectrum analysis and see what matters and how things add up.
First off, the basics. Spectrum analyzers that are built into Wi-Fi networks are designed to detect the presence of—and identify—sources of [...]

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