Meru Networks has given the students of Farmingdale State College wireless access in their library, dormitories, and classrooms thanks to a campus-wide IEEE (News - Alert) 802.11n draft 2.0 wireless LAN.
According to TMCnet Farmingdale State College upgraded its existing Meru WLAN during 2008, from the 802.11a/b/g standards to 802.11n, letting its users have access to the Internet and share files at speeds that were five times faster than those supported by the previous standards. The WLAN's 200 access points have been installed in approximately 20 buildings on the 380-acre Long Island campus.
Jeff Borah, Farmingdale State College's assistant systems manager, said: “We’re the largest college of technology in the SUNY system, and we wanted to give our students the latest technology. We first installed a Meru 802.11a/b/g WLAN several years ago, and Meru's single-channel virtual-cell technology allowed students to move around campus as if they were on one big access point, without suffering disconnections.”
Farmingdale State College's 802.11n WLAN uses Meru's AP320 dual-radio 802.11a/b/g/n access points, that support creation of two full layers of wireless coverage network-wide; and MC3000 series controllers, which are used to provide the centralized intelligence to easily deploy and manage large-scale wireless WLANs. The college plans in the future to extend the Meru 802.11n WLAN to outdoor campus spaces, enabling its students to maintain their high-speed wireless connections while they walk between buildings, in plazas where they congregate and at all sporting events.
Meru Networks has been widely known as an engineering heavy company that is quickly establishing themselves as a player in the wireless space. They have focused on the security aspect more than many of their competitors and it seems to be paying off. Great work Meru.
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