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| 11/04/2009 Nationally Ranked Plano ISD Saves By Deploying Xirrus Wi-Fi Arrays Xirrus Chosen by Plano ISD for District-wide 802.11n Roll-Out, Delivering a Secure High Performance Wireless Network with 75% Fewer Devices, Cables, and Switch Ports 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 across Plano Independent School District located in Plano, Texas. Plano ISD wanted to extend their secure and stable network infrastructure to their more than 53,000 students and 7,000 staff members located across 80+ sites via a wireless network. Plano ISD selected Xirrus after an exhaustive RFI process because Xirrus delivered a high performance distributed architecture providing secure remote connections with 75% fewer devices, cables, and switch ports saving the district a substantial amount in equipment costs while also keeping operating expenses flat.
"We narrowed it down to two vendors, and we did a battery of tests against both vendors in house on their equipment," said Mitch Mitchell, Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer at Plano ISD. We did video streaming, throughput testing, usability testing, and also testing on the management side to make sure that whatever we selected we would be able to manage it in our environment." Click here for more information on the Plano ISD deployment. About Xirrus Xirrus, Inc. is the only Wi-Fi Power Play in the industry and manufactures the high performance Wi-Fi Array – 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. Xirrus – High Performance Wi-Fi™ Xirrus – The Wi-Fi Array® Xirrus – The Wi-Fi Power-Play™ Xirrus – The Air Is The Network™ 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. |