Meru Networks's video: Mount Staint Mary s College Deploys Meru Wi-Fi on 52 Acre Campus

Meru's single channel architecture will allow students and faculty to access the internet every where, all the time. Learn more at www.merunetworks.com Mt. St. Mary has been in this area since 1959. It's a medium size school, running around 2500 students, 400 to 500 faculty and staff. We are a liberal arts school, primary focus is education and nursing. Mobile devices are changing rapidly. It used to be you had a laptop; well now you have a laptop, a phone, a tablet. You have some kind of iPod or device that gives you music capabilities. Everything accesses the internet for information. And all of that is in motion. People are in motion. Teachers are using the flipped classroom. You're seeing the lecture and then doing the homework in class. Wireless gives you that capability of, I don't have to find a place with a port. I don't have to be tied to a location. I can do it just as easily in my dorm room as I can when I have a break, I'll just go in the lounge, sit down, open up my device, and be on. The concept of the Meru single channel architecture is, I'm going to flow in a wireless air space. There is no cell. One of the things that happens when you have multiple channels is you drop an AP, you pick up an AP. You are constantly being bounces around. And what that does is that causes drops and interference in some of the information that causes you to disconnect. EZRF can be used as, what my staff likes to call, the TiVo of wireless problem determination. Because everything is recorded, most of the time when someone comes to you with a problem, it didn't happen then. You'll get, 'This happened to me last night,' or last Tuesday, or, 'This happened to me once, a week ago. You don't have the real data to work with. Because my staff calls it a TiVo, they can go back in time. They can replay the events that occurred for that device because they can track the wireless mac address and see what was occurring to that device at that time in that place. One of the great things about EZRF is it keeps down your staffing costs. How? EZRF is a tool that helps us determine problems without having to do site surveys. So I don't have a bunch of people running around trying to get readings and measurements. We can do all of that with EZRF. EZRF becomes the tool that helps me reduce and maintain manpower. Most small and medium size colleges don't have the money for staff. This tool could easily save you one to two full time employees because it lets you do everything from your desk. So now instead of having four people on staff, even cutting it by 25 percent, I get three, I mean I get the work of five, because the tool, EZRF, is doing the work for me. One of the things that I see with 11 AC is more and more and more things will be ready to use wirelessly. What AC is going to do is it's going to take us from a three lane highway to a five lane super highway. Now you're going to see more applications for heavy lifters, like video, like photo editing, which is going to be done wirelessly.