802.11n: Importance of supporting legacy (802.11a/b/g) clients

August 27, 2009 Industry Insights

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WLAN selection and deployment considerations; Why legacy clients will exist for a long time?
802.11n standard includes several enhancements in PHY – MIMO (multiple-input, multiple-output), use of 20MHz or 40 MHz channels with multiple spatial streams per channel, more efficient OFDM and short guard interval (GI) – and MAC layers – [...]

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User Experience: The Times They Are A Changin’!

August 25, 2009 Industry Insights

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Is it just me, or have you also noticed just how pervasive Wi-Fi technology has become? Wi-Fi is everywhere and expanding at a significant rate. There is an expectation these days that no matter where you are, at home, at work, at school, at the coffee shop, at the airport, on a [...]

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Want To Save $$ – Hint: Silo busting is good!

August 24, 2009 Industry Insights

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We’ve all heard it, “I’m a “X-Y-Z”-Shop – won’t even consider anyone else. Well consider this. By introducing a second vendor into your network, the overall savings reach 30%, and even greater in some cases, according the Gartner Group. “Introducing a Second Network Vendor Saves [...]

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Even IT needs to Measure Twice, Cut Once

August 19, 2009 Industry Insights

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We all remember from shop class how important it is to measure twice and cut once. To do so ensures that the cut is right, and while it takes a bit more effort up front, could save so much time, frustration, and money from having to [...]

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802.11n on Hand Held Devices?

August 17, 2009 Behind the Lab Coats

Let me first say that eventually 802.11n will be as ubiquitous as 11b/g, but the question is whether hand held devices can use that type of bandwidth connectivity.
My personal experience is that performance/bandwidth is like a gas.  If you put a gas into a jar, it expands to fill the jar.  Give developers more performance [...]

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Smile! Meru is on candid camera at NECC 2009!

August 13, 2009 Behind the Lab Coats

Meru had a booth at the National Education Computing Conference in Washington, DC which was held at the end of June. NECC is the largest national education event and draws educators, school IT directors and technology coordinators from around the world.
The exhibit floor displayed an enormous amount of technology which is available to schools [...]

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802.11n and the all-wireless campus

August 13, 2009 Meru in the Wild

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Ilan Rubin, Director of Wavelink Communications, a Meru Networks reseller community leader.  In this article, Ilan highlights some of the challenges facing higher education institutions as they look to deliver campus-wide, high-performance, and cost-effective wireless infrastructures.
Australian Universities and high schools were early adopters of wireless LAN technology.  Many [...]

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Uptime: The Killer App for Green IT

August 10, 2009 Industry Insights

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Green IT was all the rage at last year’s Interop show, with lots of companies looking for ways to help reduce both a datacenter’s power bill and its impact on the planet.  But from a business perspective, the biggest reason for energy efficiency [...]

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Does more bandwidth solve Quality of Service Issues?

August 10, 2009 Industry Insights

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As the adjacent picture shows, even as highways increase in size, they become congested and speed and predictability decreases. Highway departments have added HOV lanes and emergency vehicles are supposed to have priority, but to a large extent, your experience on the highway is dictated by the traffic around you. Travel early in [...]

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Channel Layering: The only Architecture for 802.11n

August 10, 2009 Industry Insights

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The day is near where 802.11n is going to be ratified. All schools, hospitals, business – name a place with Wi-Fi and it would be 802.11n based. Deploying 802.11n is a challenge by itself because of its MIMO nature and multiple path of access to a Wireless Network. It is very important to [...]

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