The University of Huddersfield Deploys a Meru Education-Grade (MEG(TM)) 802.11ac Wi-Fi Network
07 April 2014 - 10:00PM
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The University of Huddersfield Deploys a Meru Education-Grade
(MEG(TM)) 802.11ac Wi-Fi Network
Times Higher Education University of the Year Rolls Out One of
the First Higher-Education Gigabit Wi-Fi Implementations in the
UK
LONDON--(Marketwired - Apr 7, 2014) - Meru Networks®
(NASDAQ: MERU) today announced that the University of Huddersfield
will replace Cisco with a campus-wide 802.11ac Meru Education-grade
(MEG™) Wi-Fi solution to support high densities of students
accessing voice and video applications over their mobile devices.
The first phase of the deployment was conducted in Huddersfield's
new £22.5 million Student Central building, which opened in January
2014. Phase two of the deployment, which began in March 2014, is
expected to extend the Gigabit Wi-Fi network to the entire campus
by the end of the year.
"Due to its age we were experiencing poor, patchy performance
with our previous network and had particular challenges with
roaming -- not ideal with a highly mobile student population armed
with multiple mobile devices," said Joanna Radley, manager of Data
Centre, Infrastructure and Network Services at the University of
Huddersfield. "We were finding that devices would connect to a
wireless access point, but then stick to it as people moved from
place to place, which affects performance by reducing the available
bandwidth to each client. Meru makes life a lot easier by putting
the network in control."
The Huddersfield Student Central building is the main gathering
place for students on the university campus, offering students
catering, a sports hall, a library, the student union and even a
mobile concierge team armed with Apple iPads®. The new network,
utilizing Meru AP832 802.11ac access points, was designed and
deployed by Meru partner Capita Managed IT Solutions, who will also
participate in the design aspects of phase two of the
deployment.
The University of Huddersfield was recently named Times Higher
Education (THE) University of the Year1. This follows a highly
successful 2013 in which the University was also awarded two
Queen's Awards for Enterprise and in 2012 was awarded the
prestigious Entrepreneurial University of the Year at the Times
Higher Education Awards. The University is also in the top 10 in
England for teaching excellence2 and is ranked in the top 10
nationally for undergraduate and postgraduate employability,
student placements in industry and the number of student and
graduate businesses supported.
"Huddersfield is absolutely committed to delivering the best
possible Wi-Fi experience to its large mobile student population,"
said Henry Batten, UK territory manager for Meru. "As a
forward-looking, visionary educational establishment, it needed a
mobility centric Wi-Fi solution that would perform in high density,
while meeting their requirements several years into the future.
We're delighted to have been chosen by the Times Higher Education
University of the Year to meet this need."
1
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/huddersfield-named-university-of-the-year-2013/2009464.article
22011 Sunday Times University Guide
Notes for editors: Meru's Education-grade (MEG) wireless
solution is designed to solve educational institutions' BYOD (Bring
your own device) issues and support their learning-essential
applications. MEG starts with three simple steps:
http://www.merunetworks.com/collateral/solution-briefs/2012-brief-higher-education-wireless-lan-solutions-solve-byod-challenges.pdf
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1. |
On-board quickly with BYOD
provisioning and secure wireless access mapped to IT policies. |
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2. |
Connect all BYOD devices reliably
anywhere on campus. |
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Learn by deploying validated
learning and teaching applications on BYOD devices over the MEG
wireless solution. |
About Meru Networks Meru Networks (NASDAQ: MERU) is a leader in
intelligent 802.11ac Wi-Fi solutions, delivering uninterrupted user
experience for education, healthcare, hospitality and enterprise.
The Meru MobileFLEX architecture is designed to enable
seamless roaming with traffic separation for critical applications,
providing top performance and high capacity in high-density
environments. Visit www.merunetworks.com or call (408) 215-5300 for
more information.
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