Meru’s enterprise wireless LAN equipment scored higher than Cisco’s gear in a test commissioned by Meru and conducted by the Tolly Group.
According to a Meru press release issued today, “Meru’s WLAN system delivers over three times more bi-directional data throughput than the Cisco WLAN solution tested.” A copy of the test summary is here.
Kevin Tolly, president, CEO and founder of The Tolly Group is quoted as saying:
“This test illustrates that Meru’s over-the-air Quality of Service can manage VoIP and data traffic in such a way as to deliver toll-quality voice in a multi-user high density enterprise environment while Cisco’s solution fails to deliver acceptable quality for any of the VoIP users.”
The release adds:
The Tolly Group completed performance testing with Meru’s WLAN enterprise-class controller, the MC3000, and Meru’s dual-radio, 802.11g WLAN AP 208 and Cisco’s 4402 WLAN controller and AP1242 AG. The test measured the voice quality and aggregate throughput for several dozen live and simulated simultaneous VoIP over WLAN sessions, along with high volume of traditional data applications. Meru WLAN system demonstrated that it can deliver toll-quality VoIP while handling 28 VoIP users and eight data users communicating simultaneously across a single AP. The Meru solution received a mean opinion score (MOS) of 4.07, while the Cisco solution received a MOS of 1.65. A score of 1.0 represents the lowest possible MOS value, so 1.65 is not suitable for communications. Meru WLAN also demonstrated fairness for balanced upstream and downstream data traffic, while Cisco supports 40% fewer transactions with unbalanced upstream and downstream traffic.
Cisco was invited to review test plans and offer technical support but did not respond to the invitation, reads the release.
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