Meru's E(Z)RF Network Manager Brings Event-Based Forensics To Wireless LANS

(Product News, 22 Jun 2009)

E(z)RF Network Manager 2.0, the first wireless LAN management system to record every client-network wireless protocol interaction, rather than merely gathering aggregate statistics, has been introduced by Meru Networks. Meru's E(z)RF Network Manager 2.0 represents a fundamentally new approach to WLAN management, using continuous event recording, data mining and a knowledge-based inference engine to reduce troubleshooting time – and user downtime – from days to minutes.

With knowledge of every past RF event, the system allows network managers to "rewind" the WLAN, recreating past event sequences to quickly pinpoint the causes of client problems – even long after those problems have occurred. The system also automatically correlates across all recorded events to make highly accurate inferences about problems that may not yet have even been reported.

Highly scalable to accommodate growing enterprise requirements, E(z)RF Network Manager 2.0 allows management of up to 25,000 access points and hundreds of controllers across multiple geographic regions. From a single console, users can rapidly drill down and view activity details at each level of the infrastructure: controllers, access points (APs) and individual wireless client devices.