Xirrus Wireless

Wed Mar 14 05:34:52 UTC 2012

Blake/NANOGL

I just completed the Technical Training with Xirrus at a session in Dallas.

The arrays are designed to go way beyond just worrying about signal strength
("coverage") throughout a building or venue.  They tackle the problem of how
much bandwidth each connected client has available, which is something I
have not had the tools to worry about with other WiFi manufacturers.

They seem robust and full featured.  They have been around for a while too,
so going with Xirrus Arrays is not a beta test of their product.  They are
at least in their third generation of the product now.

Cool stuff!

Lorell Hathcock
MTCRE, MTCWE, MTCTCE
OfficeConnect.net
lorell at officeconnect.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Blake Pfankuch [mailto:blake at pfankuch.me] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 4:34 PM
To: NANOG (nanog at nanog.org)
Subject: Xirrus Wireless

I know this is a little outside of the traditional NANOG realm but...

I have a customer looking at a fair number of Xirrus Wireless Arrays for
802.11a/b/g/n implementations and am looking for some real world insight
into them.  On the cover they look cool, the white papers look cool, but I
am yet to find technical commentary from a real person on these devices.
Looking at the XN line, and just curious if anyone has deployed these,
supports these or knows anything about them.

Thanks!

Blake