Xirrus Wi-Fi Arrays Easily Cover Canyons School District
Canyons School District Chose Xirrus for Their Ability to Cover Educational Facilities with Far Fewer Devices than Any Other Wi-Fi Vendor
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Feb. 11 /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 throughout Canyons School District located in Sandy, Utah. Though it is one of the newest districts in Utah, Canyons has nearly 33,000 students across 45 schools. They chose Xirrus Wi-Fi Arrays to provide their students and teachers with a quality wireless network that could deliver the same high performance as a wired connection but with the convenience and efficiency of a wireless network.
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Talking about their decision to deploy Xirrus equipment, Dean Glanville, Director of Technology Architecture at Canyons School District said, "Our ability to cover the school with fewer devices was what really caught our attention. We had looked at another vendor's solution and they needed close to 100 access points in one of our high schools to provide the coverage we were looking for. The cost was just prohibitive to install all those devices. That school has now been installed with Xirrus devices and it was a fraction of that. I believe we put about 34 access points as opposed to a hundred that the competitors were asking for. It just made sense from a cost perspective of installing the wiring for it."
Dean continued by explaining how they tested the Xirrus Arrays, "We wanted to see this work with 90 computers all in classrooms... we figured that's probably a pretty good test. We then said 'what's the worst thing we could do?' so we started running videos. At one point in time we had 90 computers all playing various videos off of the Internet and off of locally hosted things... really just trying to break the Xirrus system – and it just worked."
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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.
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