Meru Networks, the global innovation leader in wireless infrastructure for the All-Wireless Enterprise, announced that Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC) INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine (www.itmag.com) has named Meru's Wireless Backbone System a recipient of a 2006 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award. INTERNET TELEPHONY has been the VoIP Authority Since 1998.

The Meru Wireless Backbone System is the first wireless solution in the industry to address the emerging All-Wireless Enterprise. This is evidenced by a growing need amongst enterprises of all types, including universities, K-12 school districts, hospitals, utilities, retailers, manufacturers and government agencies, to deploy wireless networking as a primary infrastructure. With Meru's Wireless Backbone System, enterprises can pervasively extend wireless networks that may have been installed initially for convenience, to transform entire remote, branch or headquarter office networks into high performance, all-wireless environments. Comprised of Meru Radio Switches, Access Points, Controllers and Meru's Wireless Backbone Software, the Wireless Backbone System can replace a wired backbone entirely with a completely wireless 802.11 backbone, while providing comparable levels of throughput, QoS and service fidelity.

"For the second year in a row, INTERNET TELEPHONY has selected Meru as a recipient of its prestigious Excellence Award, recognizing our continued technological innovation," said Lisa Schiltz, Senior Director of Corporate Marketing, Meru Networks. "More importantly, this award acknowledges the enthusiastic response we've had from customers and the growing trend within these enterprises towards deploying All-Wireless environments."

"The editorial staff of Internet Telephony magazine is proud to announce the winners of the second annual INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Awards. These companies are as varied as there are products that fit under the IP telephony umbrella, but they have all achieved delivering winning solutions for their customers' needs," indicated Rich Tehrani, Editor-in-Chief of INTERNET TELEPHONY.

Since the first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been providing unbiased views of the complicated converged communications space. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs and Minacom. INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has a circulation of 55,000.

The 2006 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award winners will be published in the October 2006 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, www.itmag.com, or can be found directly online at http://www.tmcnet.com/awards/it-excellence-award-winners-2006.htm. For more information, please visit www.tmcnet.com.