1.9 Billion Wi-Fi Devices Will Hit Networks by 2014 - Are You Ready?

You know it's coming. There's simply no stopping it. A massive new flood of wi-fi devices headed straight for your wireless network. Gone are the days of sporadic, casual wireless use, when a few hundred users in a lecture or conference room had a few dozen laptops between them. Today everyone there could easily have two-three-four devices each.

Together carrying thousands of smartphones tablets and netbooks all in constant need of business essentials information and all expecting a steadfast connection in every square inch of your enterprise. But it's not just what users bring in, everything from office equipment to air conditioners will soon be making wireless machine to machine communications, sucking up shared resources, overwhelming your network, grinding it to a halt.

And while there's some comfort in the old way there's also a lingering anxiety a voice in your head that says facing this onslaught is like bailing out the ocean with five-gallon bucket. It's time to listen to that voice. Because no matter how hard they try traditional wifi network vendors simply can't prepare you.

By letting devices choose how and where to connect they can't effectively manage the dynamic nature of radio frequency, and when the flood of wi-fi hungry devices and applications hits, their flaws will be too big to ignore. It's time for a new way forward.

A way in which physical networks become virtual environments. Wireless operation become simple and reliable and the transfer of critical intelligence over the air becomes as constant and un-noticed as the air itself. That's the Meru difference.

Imagine your office was like the sky outside and each wifi device was an airplane. Years ago you'd only see a few planes and they could easily manage takeoffs landings and flight paths on their own.

Now imagine that sky full of today's commercial airliners business jets and prop planes all flying at different speeds and all choosing when and where to land on their own without any help from the ground.

That's exactly how traditional wifi networks are designed. When devices come into the network, they choose how and where to connect no matter what speed they're running at. Each device chooses differently with no regard for others and as they move through the network they decide when to break a connection and make another. Chaos.

For nearly a decade Meru has been offering thousands of customers around the world a better way. Engineering wireless networks built for mobility from day one by putting networks in control not devices.

Meru creates the only wireless environment that allows your network to manage the transmissions, devices, send and receive. It's a breakthrough we call air traffic control. This system wide awareness of device transmissions has important security implications.

Since a Meru wireless environment coordinates activities across all access points and controllers and knows what all devices are doing in the entire area, it can recognize an alert you to bad actors before they do damage. Meru also offers a new way to allow each device access based on how much time it takes to communicate.

Picture a three lane highway where the slowest vehicles block the fastest ones this is how traditional wifi networks operate. By not recognizing the differences in devices they give equal priority to all transmissions, blocking fair access and congesting the network with traffic and delays.

Merus time based approach ensures true airtime fairness. On this new highway all vehicles travel at their maximum speeds even those carrying the most cargo because each type of vehicle has its own lane. Everyone gets on.

The slowest devices don't get in the way and bandwidth hungry applications, like video, perform at their peak. By unlocking the full potential of 802.11n standards the Meru wireless environment delivers benefits that multiply quickly.

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this is brilliant