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Sacred Heart College Installs Xirrus 802.11n Campus-WideTHOUSAND OAKS, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Xirrus®, the Wi-Fi "Power-Play" that delivers the most coverage, bandwidth, and throughput in the industry, announced today the deployment of Xirrus high performance 802.11n Wi-Fi Arrays across Sacred Heart College, an International Baccalaureate World School located in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Sacred Heart College replaced their legacy Wi-Fi network with the Xirrus Wi-Fi Arrays because it was the only architecture capable of supporting 30+ concurrent students per classroom from a single cable drop. The school was also able to forgo installing expensive wired Ethernet to the desktop in their new Digital Computer Labs, saving the school money on switch ports, cabling, and labor. Speaking about their recent Xirrus deployment, Rod Bush, ICT Manager at Sacred Heart College said, "We talked about it a lot with other schools in the area and got the Xirrus guys down to look at an initial site survey, which really assured us from almost day one that this was a solution that would fit our needs exactly as we moved to larger and larger numbers of computers available to kids. It is really the only feasible way to supply sufficient bandwidth to the desktop for that number of laptops." Mark Pleasance, Intranet Developer continued by saying, "Looking at having 1,300 plus laptops over the next few years we can feel quite confident sitting back and saying our Xirrus wireless infrastructure is going to be able to support that without any hassle at all." Learn valuable lessons from others deploying Wi-Fi at www.xirrus.com/customerdeployments. Sign up for your free site survey by visiting us at www.xirrus.com/sitesurvey or by calling 800-947-7871. About Xirrus Xirrus, the only Wi-Fi "Power-Play", manufacturers the Wi-Fi Array® architecture that displaces both overlay Wi-Fi offerings and switched Ethernet to the desktop. The Wi-Fi Array integrates 4, 8, 12, 16, or 24 802.11abg+n radios coupled to a high-gain directional antenna system into a single device along with an onboard multi-gigabit switch, Wi-Fi controller, firewall, dedicated Wi-Fi threat sensor, and an embedded spectrum analyzer. The Wi-Fi Array provides more than enough bandwidth, security, and control to replace switched Ethernet to the desktop as the primary network connection. The Xirrus Wi-Fi Array delivers the most coverage, bandwidth, throughput, and user density on a per device and per system basis than anything else available on the market today - resulting in a solution that uses 75% fewer devices, cabling, switch ports, power, space, and installation time compared with any other offering. Xirrus is a privately-held company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California. For more information, please visit www.xirrus.com. Xirrus - Switching: Without Wires™ Xirrus - High Performance Wi-Fi™ Xirrus - Wi-Fi Array® Follow us at twitter.com/xirrus, facebook.com/xirrus, and youtube.com/xirrustv. Photos/Multimedia Gallery Available: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=6051202&lang=en |
