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From K–12 to higher education, Meru helps schools transform the wireless network into a powerful learning enabler. Visit: www.merunetworks.com The University of Sussex information technology service is responsible for computing across the campus, PCs for the students to use, staff equipment, business systems, and it of course includes the data network. A very important part of our data network is our WiFi service. Our students were using a previously installed WiFi system, which we felt was getting a little bit long in the tooth and noticed and increase in possible complaints about WiFi and obviously we wanted to improve the WiFi system to keep our students happy. Wireless is one of those technologies that as soon as the latest standard comes out there’s a new one around the corner. The original wireless solutions that came out were not easily manageable on a large scale, certainly not a scale as large as the Uni of Sussex when you’re talking perhaps in the region of 1000, 1500 access points. There was no upgrade that was possible for that system. The Meru single-cell architecture meant that it was so easily manageable from that respect, so that you don’t have to channel planned APs, you can just pop an AP up wherever you want. It forms parts of the entire wireless LAN itself. We set Meru a challenge with it. We said “We want a new WiFi system. We haven’t got a huge amount of effort to install it. Bring it along and show us it working.” Meru brought down a complete …
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