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Microsoft CMG Events & Studios has selected Xirrus to deliver ultra-high density Wi-Fi, according to the company.

 

The company found the Xirrus Wi-Fi solution as the only Wi-Fi architecture capable of delivering the necessary density and coverage for thousands of attendees, and at roughly half the cost of previously tried architectures.

 

“We had an opportunity to partner with Xirrus at our Professional Developers Conference to solve something we hadn’t yet been able to solve, which is the high capacity, high density four, five or six thousand people in one room problem. We have tried for years, but hadn’t yet succeeded – Xirrus partnered up with us… and delivered 100%. Never had any issues,” John O’Gara, group manager for Microsoft’s (News - Alert) CMG Events & Studios, was quoted in a recent interview.

 

O’Gara said that the other advantage to the [Xirrus] system is that the company is able to decrease the amount of access points that are deployed roughly by a factor of two-thirds. In a lot of the facilities the company has to pay for the wiring and the drops to accommodate wireless deployments, so this is an immediate cost savings to the company and to the events, he added.

 

“Where we’ve really won here is we’ve increased our capacity and solved a problem that we’ve never been able to solve and we’ve been able to do all the other wireless needs at the event at somewhere under half of the cost for the facility side of things as we have in the past,” he said.

 

Xirrus, the Wi-Fi “Power-Play,” manufacturers the Wi-Fi Array architecture that displaces both overlay Wi-Fi offerings and switched Ethernet to the desktop.

Recently Xirrus, Inc. had announced the deployment of their high performance 802.11n Wi-Fi Arrays across Penola Catholic College located in Melbourne, Australia.

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