Top Rated Roxbury Latin School Sets the Bar for Excellence in Education with Xirrus High Performance Wi-Fi Arrays

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., April 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Xirrus®, the Wi-Fi "Power Play" that delivers the most coverage, bandwidth, and user density in the industry, announced today the deployment of Xirrus high performance 802.11n Wi-Fi Arrays at the prestigious Roxbury Latin School, located in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. Founded in 1645 by John Eliot under the charter of King Charles I of England, The Roxbury Latin School is the oldest school in continuous operation in North America and currently serves nearly 300 boys in grades seven through twelve.  Roxbury Latin is consistently ranked as one of the top secondary schools in the world; most recently PrepReview.com placed Roxbury Latin first in America's Top 50 High Schools, America's Best High Schools Ranked by SAT, and America's Best Private Day Schools, not to mention rating it #1 in the world among secondary schools for its students' success at gaining admission to Harvard University. The school chose to deploy Xirrus Wi-Fi Arrays across the 120-acre campus because Xirrus offered the best user density and throughput with far fewer devices and cable runs -- keeping the school on budget while delivering the best Wi-Fi experience possible for its students and faculty.

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"Our needs have changed over the past couple of years," said Andrew Katz, Director of Information Services at Roxbury Latin.  "Originally we were just looking for coverage, but as we realized the density was going to increase, we decided that we needed to make sure we not only had coverage but actually acceptable throughput as well. Now that we have a high performance wireless infrastructure in place, we can support student and faculty mobile devices with wireless roaming campus wide. There is definitely a push towards more wireless connectivity, which will give us more freedom and more flexibility in what we do here."

"One of the nice things about Xirrus is that we can easily install an Array in any location where we need more coverage. This allows us to cover our campus with high bandwidth, high-density Wi-Fi," continued Andrew.  "With Xirrus you really get a lot of bang for your buck -- you only have to run one cable to each Array.  The cost came in significantly lower than the rivals, not only for cable drops, but for the equipment as well.  Xirrus was able to cover our campus using far fewer devices to cover the same space using any alternative solution. It's been nice dealing with less hardware."

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About Xirrus

Xirrus, the only Wi-Fi Power Play™, manufactures the Wi-Fi Array® architecture that displaces both overlay Wi-Fi offerings and switched Ethernet or Fast Ethernet to the desktop. Unlike traditional access points, the Wi-Fi Array integrates 4, 8, 12, 16 or 24 802.11abgn radios along with a high-gain directional antenna system, onboard multi-gigabit switch, Wi-Fi controller, firewall, dedicated Wi-Fi threat sensor, and an embedded spectrum analyzer into a single energy-efficient and cost-effective device using 75% fewer devices, cabling, switch ports, power, space, and installation time compared with any other offering.  Xirrus products are designed and manufactured in the United States.  Xirrus is Wi-Fi, Verisign, PCI, FIPS 140-2, and ISO 9001:2008 Certified. For more information, please visit http://www.xirrus.com.

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