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Xirrus, Inc. a vendor of long range Wi-Fi products reported today that IT solutions provider Sierra Corporation has put the last touches on the Xirrus Wi-Fi Arrays being deployed at Carter G. Woodson Collegiate Academy.

 

Sixteen Xirrus Wi-Fi Arrays have been deployed in the three building campus of the school accommodating 1,200 students, faculty and staff. Xirrus’s proprietary Wi-Fi Array platform bundles up 16 radios with an onboard Gigabit Switch, Wi-Fi Controller, Firewall, and dedicated Wi-Fi Threat Sensor in one package. The platform betters rival solutions in delivering 2X the range, 4X the coverage, 14X the throughput. It reduces the need for devices, cabling, switch ports, and installation time by 75 percent.

 

"At Sierra Corporation, we offer only the best products to our customers, and Xirrus' Wi-Fi Array is the highest performing product we've seen in the market," said Rassul B. Hashemi, President, Sierra Corporation, in a statement to the press. "Our partnership with Xirrus, allows us to deploy a Wi-Fi network for our clients that offers twice the range and four times the coverage, making it an ideal solution for schools and other large facilities deploying Wi-Fi."

 

"The nature of our site is that one or two classrooms at a time will be using the Internet," also commented Donald L. Hense, Chairman of Friendship Public Charter School. "We needed to be able to offer reliable and high-speed wireless Internet access for research as part of our commitment to providing state-of-the-art facilities to our students and faculty."

 

"It's an honor for us to have a company like Sierra Corporation resell our products and for a school such as Carter G. Woodson, known for its exceptional standards for technological and learning tools, to use them," Dirk Gates, CEO, Xirrus commented in a statement. "We see this as further validation of the inroads we are making, as we continue to push the boundaries of Wi-Fi into the education market."

 

Divya Narain is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To see more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.

 

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