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| 02/23/2010 Xirrus Recognized by Leading Industry Analyst Firm for Global Wireless LAN Customers Remain Loyal to Xirrus for Their Ability to Provide the Wi-Fi Performance, User Density, Security, and Quality of Service Needed to Replace Wired with Wireless Xirrus, the Wi-Fi Power-Play that delivers the most coverage, bandwidth, and user density in the industry is pleased to be recognized in the recent 2010 Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Wireless LAN Infrastructure Global” report based on its ability to execute and completeness of vision within the enterprise market. 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 (see below).
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. Cautions Xirrus remains one of the smaller private companies in the WLAN infrastructure space. Lack of viability in the large enterprise space is a cause for concern. With the falling price of traditional two-radio access points, and the growing number of cloud-based offerings, Xirrus' price advantage on radios (due to a shared power and physical design) and its lack of a controller requirement has all but evaporated. Xirrus clarification: “Lack of controller” as referred to above is once again a misnomer as Xirrus ships a controller with each Array. Additionally, the only way to serve dense wireless and user populations and avoid interference is with more radios per device along with tight and automatic RF management to avoid interference. The Wi-Fi Array does this better than any thin AP plus centralized controller offering due to its sectored directional antenna design. Xirrus is still a point solution in most cases, with many enterprises using it as a supplement to existing networks or even side-by-side in new installations. *********************************** See the Xirrus website, which lists dozens of video press release testimonials and hundreds of customer deployment examples that demonstrate our success and unprecedented customer satisfaction. About the Magic Quadrant The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2010 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. About Xirrus Xirrus, Inc., is the only Wi-Fi Power Play in the industry and manufactures the High Performance Wi-Fi Array technology, which is the only fully distributed, dense radio Wi-Fi architecture available in the industry today. The innovative Xirrus architecture delivers unmatched RF innovation and wireless performance on a per access point and system-wide basis, yet requires fewer devices, switch ports, cabling, time, and effort to implement and maintain than traditional offerings - accelerating the Time-to-Value by 3X. Xirrus designs and manufactures its products in the USA and is Wi-Fi Alliance, VeriSign, PCI, FIPS 140-2, and ISO 9001:2008 certified. For more information, please visit www.xirrus.com. Media Contacts: John Merrill, Xirrus john.merrill@xirrus.com 805.262.1644 Mandy Kakavas, Horn Group for Xirrus mandy.kakavas@horngroup.com 415.905.4015 Follow us at twitter.com/xirrus, facebook.com/xirrus, and youtube.com/xirrustv. |