Xirrus Recognized by Leading Industry Analyst Firm for Global Wireless LAN

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Xirrus®, the Wi-Fi Power-Play that delivers the most coverage, bandwidth, and user density in the industry is pleased to be recognized in the recent 2010 Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Wireless LAN Infrastructure Global" report based on its ability to execute and completeness of vision within the enterprise market.

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"Xirrus is consistently winning in Education, Healthcare, Government, and Events markets where dense wireless users are demanding the same performance and quality of service from Wi-Fi networks as they've become accustomed to from wired networks," said Alan Amrod, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Xirrus. "These vertical segments represent the majority of the Wi-Fi market today and have the most stringent requirements for density and capacity. For the most part, large carpeted-space enterprises have not had a compelling need for Wi-Fi as they are drowning in unused switch ports, however, they too are waking up to the need for greater Wi-Fi density to cover the many mobile notebooks and phones entering their airspace."

The Xirrus Wi-Fi Array architecture is different from traditional access points controlled by central controllers in two primary ways:  

1. The best practices of Mobile/Cellular Networks show the best way to cover large areas, service-dense user populations, and reduce RF interference is by utilizing multiple radios with a sectored directional antenna system.  The Xirrus Wi-Fi Array operates more like a mobile/cellular phone tower than a two-radio omni-directional access point in that every Wi-Fi Array contains between 4 and 24 802.11abgn radios along with a high gain, sectored directional antenna system. The benefits to this approach include more channels providing more coverage, bandwidth, and user density while using fewer devices, cable runs, and switch ports.
2. The best practices of Switched Networks show the best way to provide greater capacity and resilience for large user populations is by distributing the processing power and intelligence to the edge of the network. The Xirrus Wi-Fi Arrays operates more like the wired Switching infrastructure you have in place today than the centralized controller architecture so common in legacy Wi-Fi, because every Wi-Fi Array ships with an embedded controller, firewall, threat sensor, and line rate encryption engine.  The benefits to this approach include more controller power per radio, line-rate encryption, fewer bottlenecks, and greater resiliency because of multiple distributed entry points to your backbone – all while having the ability to centrally manage the entire network.

Xirrus' go-to market strategy is based on Facts and Physics, not PowerPoints and Promises. We strongly recommend that all organizations selecting a Wi-Fi vendor demand an evaluation running real products in their respective environments, together with an active site survey and an implementation guarantee so that technical merit prevails and there is zero risk to the final deployment.

See the Xirrus web site (www.xirrus.com), which lists dozens of video press release testimonials (http://www.xirrus.com/press_releases/) and hundreds of customer deployment examples (http://www.xirrus.com/customerdeployments/) that demonstrate our success and unprecedented customer satisfaction.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2010 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Xirrus

Xirrus, the only Wi-Fi Power-Play™, manufacturers 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 ISO 9001:2008 certified. For more information, please visit http://www.xirrus.com.

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