Historic Washington International School Deploys Powerful and Reliable Xirrus Wi-Fi Arrays

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- 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 International School, located in Washington D.C. Founded in 1966 to meet the educational needs of Washington's international community and American families, this coeducational day school educates over 900 students representing more than 90 countries, on two beautiful campuses in the northwest area of D.C. This diverse learning environment found that the Xirrus product was the only solution powerful and robust enough to scale to meet their future wireless initiatives, requiring just half the devices to deploy over competitive solutions.

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"When faced with upgrading our inadequate legacy network, we searched for a wireless solution that would cover our entire facility in a very powerful and robust way. The appeal of Xirrus over the competition was the low number of devices required to get excellent coverage throughout the building. Deploying Xirrus was a 50% reduction in the number of devices we would have to purchase, install and manage," said Chad Fairey, Director of Information Services for Washington International School. "During the Xirrus site survey, they were very thoughtful of how the wireless signals would be affected when students were present. A lot of other companies will give you a map based on mathematics, but won't consider the moving bodies of water the students and faculty represent. This was a major advantage for Xirrus and I'm convinced we made the right choice for our wireless implementation."  

Chad continued, "Scalability was very important to us when developing our wireless network. If we add 300 laptops to the campus next year, we wanted a system that can scale to meet those demands. We are confident the central management tool and the planning tools that are inherent in the Xirrus product will support our future requirements. The architecture of the Array allows us to directionally focus the Wi-Fi signal strength, providing a lot of flexibility and control over our network. The technical support Xirrus offers has been exceptional. Xirrus is one of those systems you put in place and then stop worrying about because the technology just works!"

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About Xirrus

Xirrus, the only Wi-Fi Power Play™, manufactures the Wi-Fi Array® architecture that displaces both overlay Wi-Fi offerings and switched Ethernet or Fast Ethernet to the desktop. Unlike traditional access points, the Wi-Fi Array integrates 4, 8, 12, 16 or 24 802.11abgn radios along with a high-gain directional antenna system, onboard multi-gigabit switch, Wi-Fi controller, firewall, dedicated Wi-Fi threat sensor, and an embedded spectrum analyzer into a single energy-efficient and cost-effective device using 75% fewer devices, cabling, switch ports, power, space, and installation time compared with any other offering.  Xirrus products are designed and manufactured in the United States.  Xirrus is Wi-Fi, Verisign, PCI, FIPS 140-2, and ISO 9001:2008 Certified. For more information, please visit http://www.xirrus.com.

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