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WLAN 500TM
A dream for you... A nightmare for microcell WLANs
Density, scalability, predictability, airtime fairness: challenges enterprises face today
Meru's virtualized Wireless LANs make dreams come true!
Did you ever wonder how far you can push WLAN technology? Did you ever dream of putting 500 employees/students/journalists/visitors all together in one small room and still offer them high-speed access? Do you want to combine high-speed data, streaming video and high-quality voice calls over one network?
Did everyone tell you this was a dream?
Meet the WLAN 500TM
- 500 multimedia clients
- 500 square feet (45m²)
- 100Mbps of background data
- 45 multicast video streams
- 20 simultaneous voice calls
- zero dropped connections!
In a small space of 45m², 500 WiFi clients were put together. These clients consist out of 11a, 11g and 11n clients where the 11n clients are both single band 2.4GHz clients as well as dual band clients. These clients all connect to the only 7 AP (AP320 and AP320i) in the room configured as a multi-layer network (4x40MHz in 5GHz and 3x20MHz in 2.4GHz).
Meru's unique features like Virtual Port, Band Steering, Load Balancing and Multicast Group Management were enabled. 75% of the clients used WPA2-PSK and 25% used a clear profile.
The load on the network is more than any 'standard' network would have to deal with:
- All wireless clients loaded web pages every 45 seconds for a continuous load per client.
- 45 simultaneous multicast video streams
- 20 phones placing client-to-client G.711 calls
- 100Mbps Chariot data load
There are no dropped connections, all browsing works perfect and react fast and snappy, the 100Mbps passes flawlessly and all phone calls reach Toll quality! (MOS > 4.0)
To investigate the 'what if' scenario, all AP were rebooted at the same time to have all clients associate and start there 'work'. After 3 minutes, all clients reastablished the connection and were back at full speed operational!
It's not magic,
It's Meru!
Watch the demonstration:
http://www.merunetworks.com/technology/resources/videos/index.php
