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| 03/02/2010 Washington County Public Schools Builds the Foundation for Tomorrow by Deploying Xirrus Wi-Fi Arrays Today Xirrus Wi-Fi Arrays Increased Performance into the Classrooms and Decreased Support Calls to Schools District’s IT Staff 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 Washington County Public Schools. The school systems services over 21,000 students across 30 campuses in Hagerstown, Maryland. By deploying Xirrus 802.11n Wi-Fi Arrays, Washington County Schools found they could improve network manageability and increase performance, using 75% fewer devices.
“We tested Nortel, we tested Aruba, and then we looked at Cisco and some of the bigger vendors that were in wireless. Through that process we found that the typical [Wi-Fi] solution would not work for us. Most school systems are limited in staff for supporting wireless network, so we [wanted] something that didn’t increase our need for additional techs, manpower or administrators to manage the network. We took out the existing wireless and we put in the Xirrus wireless – we went from multiple complaints and problems to zero.” Continuing, Dave said, “We found out that we could reduce the number of Arrays, and increase performance into the classrooms. I think that the future is going to show that every student will have a laptop, so we’re kind of building the foundation for tomorrow putting the Xirrus products in.” Learn valuable lessons from others deploying Wi-Fi at www.xirrus.com/customerdeployments Sign up for your site survey at www.xirrus.com/sitesurvey or by calling 800-947-7871. 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. |