St. Aidan's Anglican Girls' School Enjoys the Reliability and Mobility of a Xirrus 802.11n Network

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., April 13 /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 across both campuses of St. Aidan's Anglican Girls' School in Corinda, Brisbane, Australia. As an all girls school with 840 students from preschool through year 12, St. Aidan's aims to provide the best possible educational environment for individual growth and goal realization. As part of this endeavor, the school chose to deploy Xirrus Wi-Fi Arrays so the students could enjoy mobility, reliability, and large amounts of bandwidth when connecting to the wireless network campus-wide.

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Dean Downs, Director of ICT at St. Aidan's Anglican Girls' School explains their need for wireless, "We have moved to a 1-to-1 environment in Year 9 to 12. The issue for us was how to provide access to all the students as demand for technology kept growing across the teaching faculties. The only solution really was to go with a portable device that every student could take with them as our computer lab spaces were already pretty saturated and we didn't have any more rooms to convert. We have a SharePoint environment as well for web 2.0 applications, so the choice to move to a wireless environment was very much driven by the fact that the hardware we needed was a portable device that needed to be wirelessly enabled."

Dean continued by explaining his reasons for choosing Xirrus, "We were drawn to the density of the Xirrus Array as they allow us to simply place something in one location to cover a large area. What I wanted to do was provide the best user experience for the kids and placing a device like the Xirrus Wi-Fi Array in the center of four classrooms allows each device the opportunity to take a 300meg connection and really get a fantastic user experience as opposed to sharing a smaller bandwidth. In the end it's really about quality of service -- the bandwidth, the capabilities, and the management interface makes the biggest difference."

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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 Alliance Verisign, PCI, FIPS 140-2, and ISO 9001:2008 Certified. For more information, please visit http://www.xirrus.com.

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