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01/03/2010

Xirrus Recognized by Gartner as Superior Choice for Dense Wireless User Environments

Xirrus®, the Wi-Fi "Power-Play" that delivers the most coverage, bandwidth, and user density in the industry, has been recognized in the recent "2010 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Wireless LAN Infrastructure" report for its strength in servicing dense user environments with Wi-Fi. Xirrus dense radio architecture enables the ability to solve the traditional user density and capacity problems of Wi-Fi as highlighted in Gartner's report.

"Xirrus consistently wins in the Education, Healthcare, Government, and Events markets where dense wireless user and device populations are commonplace and where excess switch ports are physically or financially unfeasible," said Alan Amrod, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Xirrus. "These markets represent the majority of the Wi-Fi users and have the most stringent requirements for density and capacity. For the most part, large carpeted-space enterprises have not had a compelling need for Wi-Fi as they are drowning in unused switch ports, however, they too are waking up to the need for greater Wi-Fi density to cover the many mobile notebooks and phones entering their airspace."

Xirrus' go-to market strategy is based on Facts and Physics, not PowerPoint's and Promises. We strongly recommend that all organizations selecting a Wi-Fi vendor demand an evaluation running real products in their respective environments, together with an active site survey and an implementation guarantee so that technical merit prevails and there is zero risk to the final deployment.

In the spirit of full transparency, the complete '2010 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Wireless LAN Infrastructure' report on Xirrus is provided below:

Xirrus

With one of the more unusual solutions in the market, Xirrus has been a longtime proponent of "controllerless" architectures and beam forming. It remains a specific solution-focused WLAN infrastructure vendor. Its unique architecture and access point design enables it to service dense user environments and traditionally difficult to wire locations (e.g., classrooms, auditoriums and entertainment venues). Xirrus is an excellent choice for enterprises with dense user requirements and as a supplemental vendor in those environments.

Xirrus clarification: "Controllerless" as referred to above is a misnomer as in reality all Xirrus Arrays ship with an embedded controller, firewall, threat sensor, and line rate encryption engine. Xirrus is a distributed architecture that puts the processing power and intelligence at the edge instead of the more common "centralized controller" architecture other vendors typically use. Proportionally, Xirrus delivers far more controller power per radio than competitive offerings that create bottlenecks in their centralized architecture.

Strengths

Unique access point design enables highly concentrated coverage to be accomplished with a single access point, containing up to 16 radios. This has enabled dense user concentrations to be served.

Loyal customer base with high marks for customer service, requirement-based network design and as-promised infrastructure performance.





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