Meru Networks Provides Wireless Network at Five Star Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc on French Riviera

A Scalable, Powerful and Secure Platform Ensures Seamless Roaming and High
Quality of Service at French Riviera Haven
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
The legendary Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc on the French Riviera, recognized as one of
the world's most beautiful hotels, is using virtualized high-speed wireless
networking technology from Meru Networks to add a new dimension to the
high-quality service it offers its guests.

The hotel, situated in a scenic park environment overlooking the Mediterranean
between Nice and Cannes, sought a wireless network to provide seamless,
high-speed multi-media network communications and Internet access to its guests.

The wireless network had to act as reliably as an online concierge to the
hotel's prestigious clientele, which includes executives and artists attending
the Cannes film and TV festivals. Meru was the only vendor that could assure the
service that Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc required.

"This project presented a double challenge," said Philippe Perd, director of the
Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc, "ensuring the peace and well-being of our customers
during installation, while offering them easy, reliable and secure Internet
access.

"Our customers expect the very highest standards of service at all levels and
choose our hotel because they know that we can guarantee their peace and quiet.
That said, they also need to be able to work, and therefore to reach the
Internet, easily and securely, no matter what device they are using," Philippe
Perd said.

"We wanted a durable Five Star answer to this wireless challenge. We studied
several offers, and Meru Networks proposed the best in terms of performance,
scalability, security and price. We were also attracted by the ease of
installation and implementation offered by Meru Networks' unique wireless LAN
technology."

The new wireless network, based on Meru Networks' virtual cell infrastructure,
was designed and deployed last year by Meru partner I2S. The ease with which a
Meru WLAN can be deployed - needing fewer APs and no site surveys as required by
other suppliers - allowed the deployment to proceed while remaining invisible to
guests.

The new network ensures that the hotel's guests can access the Internet easily
and safely wherever they are on the eight-hectare (17,000-square-meter) property
with the assurance that they won't drop off the network as they roam.

In addition, hotel staff needing mobile access can connect to the network
anywhere from the buildings or grounds, further ensuring the "always on" service
the hotel seeks to provide.

"The solution we implemented has already proved its efficiency. We plan to
rapidly enhance and expand our network to provide our customers with VoIP and
HDTV, and eventually switch to a wireless telephone network," said Philippe
Perd.

The network is configured to support future delivery of voice over IP (VoIP) and
HDTV. The Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc plans to eventually move its entire telephone
network to a wireless solution by connecting to the Meru Networks
infrastructure.

"Meru Networks' technology was the only technology on the market able to rise to
this challenge," said Stephan De Santis, project director at System Integrator
I2S. "As well as its high performance, the infrastructure supports all the
devices required by the hotel, and the highly evolutionary nature of this
solution made it possible to plan for VOIP, HDTV, and a wireless telephony
system, without having to modify the solution's infrastructure."

The Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc wireless deployment uses Meru AP200 802.11 a/b/g
access points and an MC3000 series controller, which provides centralized
intelligence to easily deploy and manage large-scale wireless LANs. Meru access
points deliver unsurpassed wireless performance and the very highest levels of
security, and can support up to 128 users. The controller will be able to manage
additional access points when they are added to expand the hotel's wireless
service to include voice over wireless IP and HDTV over wireless.

In Meru's virtualized WLAN architecture, a single channel is selected for use by
all access points enterprise-wide, and a dedicated "virtual port" is assigned to
each client device to maximize performance, reliability, and enterprise control
over wireless resources. Additional channels can be layered as more capacity is
required. In contrast, legacy WLAN systems from other vendors use a "micro cell"
approach, which assigns different radio channels to many small adjacent AP cells
to ensure that no two APs use the same channel in the same place. This requires
precise and time-consuming channel planning and AP power adjustments to work
well, making it difficult to load-balance in dense environments and limiting
future network expansion.

About Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc

The Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc is without a doubt one of the most beautiful
properties in Europe. Situated at the most Southern tip of the Cape of Antibes,
in a private 9-hectare park, the beautiful Napoleon III structure is a mythical
refuge where the light of the sun illuminates the great stars of this world.
Linking Cannes and Nice, the old fortified town of Antibes and the lively
neighbourhood of Juan-Les-Pins, this temple of elegance is where the rhythm of
the dazzling Riviera pulsates, and the golden memories of the past weave in with
those created in the present. Its pine wood, with heady aromas and a romantic
rose garden, leads a magnificent path to the Eden Roc Pavilion, built on a
terrace by the sea, where the spectacular overflowing swimming pool is alone
host to a volume of secret memories. For more information, visit
www.hotel-du-cap-eden-roc.com.

About Meru Networks

Founded in 2002, Meru Networks develops and markets wireless LAN infrastructure
solutions that use virtualization to deliver pervasive, high-fidelity wireless
service for business-critical voice, video and data applications. The company
first introduced its award-winning virtual cell wireless architecture in 2003,
and Meru products embody a complete departure from typical hub-based WLAN
approaches, offering a wireless solution with levels of performance,
reliability, security and cost-effectiveness previously found only in wired
networking environments. Meru's solutions have been adopted in all major
industry vertical markets, including Fortune 500 enterprises, healthcare,
education, retail, manufacturing, hospitality and government. Meru is
headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., and has operations in the Americas, Europe,
the Middle East and Asia Pacific. For more information, visit
www.merunetworks.com or call (408) 215-5300.

Meru Networks, Inc.
Jeff Knight, 408-215-5376
jknight@merunetworks.com
or
Ulevich & Orrange, Inc.
Janis Ulevich, 650-329-1590
ulevich@u-o.com

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