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| 03/10/2010 St. Bede’s College Replaces Wired Connections with High Performance Wi-Fi from Xirrus Students and Staff Increase Learning through the Use of Wi-Fi-enabled Netbooks Connected to Xirrus Wi-Fi Arrays Xirrus®, the Wi-Fi "Power Play" that delivers the most coverage, bandwidth, and user density in the industry, announced today the deployment of their high performance 802.11n Wi-Fi Arrays across St. Bede’s College located just outside Mentone, Victoria, Australia. Known for their academic and sporting excellence, St. Bede’s College is a 7-12 Catholic Secondary College for boys with enrollment of over 1,330 students and faculty. To make learning more enjoyable and efficient, the school decided to roll out netbooks for their students and faculty. Xirrus was selected as the Wi-Fi solution because Xirrus was able to deliver the necessary bandwidth to support dense user populations with 75% fewer devices, cables, switch ports, and power. “The first test of the Xirrus product was when we brought out the new set of staff notebooks – we had 30 netbooks sitting in the one room ready to connect,” continued David. “I was a little bit nervous, but it performed faultlessly. It was fantastic. Every staff member was on wireless within seconds. All there was were smiles around the room of the staff all getting on wirelessly. They could throw their blue cables away.” Talking about costs, David said, “We were making a massive savings going with Xirrus. We were only cabling to one point to support the whole floor. If we went with the alternative offering, we would have been running data and power cables to multiple points per floor. It was an easy choice for us.” 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 – 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. |