NEWBURY PARK, CA March 20, 2009
/24-7PressRelease/ -- Xirrus, Inc., the Wi-Fi "Power-Play" that delivers the most wireless coverage, bandwidth, and throughput in the industry announced today the deployment of their Wi-Fi Arrays across The Catherine Cook School, located in Chicago, Illinois. The Catherine Cook School replaced their existing Access Point infrastructure with Xirrus Wi-Fi Arrays to gain better network performance for their one-to-one computer initiative and real-time learning applications used by students and teachers. The transition to the Xirrus Wi-Fi Arrays was quick, seamless, and provided the school with the necessary bandwidth for Wi-Fi to be their primary network connection.
"We have a one-to-one laptop program in place for our 4th-8th grade students, which requires reliable network access campus-wide to be successful," said Bill Mierisch, Director of Technology at Catherine Cook School. "In addition to this group of 125 students, we also have two mobile laptop carts with 40 computers serving over 200 younger students, 10 wireless desktop computers stationed in classrooms, and an assortment of more than 100 laptops, Blackberrys , iPhones , and Windows Mobile smartphones used by our staff and parent volunteers."
"We called in Xirrus to fix the emerging problems of our Cisco wireless implementation—things like maxed out controllers due to our increasing enrollment, network cost over-runs, and arcane skill sets required to manage the network," continued Bill. "One particular application that was vital to our classroom success was DyKnow , a classroom management and instructional software package operating over Port 80. With the Cisco's products, we were getting persistent instabilities, which frustrated our teachers and students alike. We knew we had to find a solution that was sustainable over the long term, give us the ability to connect large masses of students in small spaces, and scale for future considerations."
"Xirrus helped us expand our network capacity with both excellent products and great ideas," continued Bill. "With over 90% of our clients able to use the 5Ghz band, our capacity for connections increased exponentially with Xirrus' multi-radio Arrays. What's more, during our roll-out, Xirrus helped us identify a problem that had lurked without our knowledge on a legacy server, which resulted in a dramatic drop-off in support calls relating to client connectivity."
"Thanks to Xirrus, we no longer need an AP in every room," added Bill. "In fact, for roughly the cost of what our Cisco upgrade alone would have set us back, we now have a network that works, is stable, and has the 'headroom' we need to support an increasing enrollment in our school. As for the Wi-Fi facelift, we were up and running in just hours, and did not need to pull any new wiring or add anything other than the Xirrus Arrays. In fact, we did not even announce to our users that we had made the switch. It happened seamlessly, with folks returning to school from Winter Break not even aware that anything had changed, expect for improved performance. As for DyKnow—we are getting far greater ROI thanks to the increased reliability and ability of the Wi-Fi Arrays to handle heavy traffic."
"It is crucial to have confidence in your Wi-Fi network," added Bill. "If teachers can't rely on connectivity, they simply cannot - and will not - do the exciting, engaging, and rewarding teaching that such a program affords. We are more confident now thanks to Xirrus, and it is making a difference in what teachers are willing to do. That means more opportunities for our kids to learn, and for us, that's the real measure of return-on-investment."
"Like many organizations we are called in to help, The Catherine Cook School realized that traditional APs cannot handle the user capacity or bandwidth required to be the primary network connection," said Eric Dean, Regional Manager at Xirrus. "The school quickly realized the need for a better medium and called us in to see what we could do. Working together, we developed a plan and successfully implemented a Wi-Fi system that will support their students and staff for years to come."
Xirrus Press Contact
John Merrill
E-mail: john.merrill@xirrus.com
Phone: +1.805.262.1644
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 http://www.xirrus.com.
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