[151248] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Xirrus Wireless
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lorell Hathcock)
Wed Mar 14 01:36:01 2012
From: "Lorell Hathcock" <lorell@hathcock.org>
To: "'Blake Pfankuch'" <blake@pfankuch.me>,
"'NANOG'" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <CC75EEBF17C7374EA8309102B7B10C84860D3A4D@SHSBS.shenrons-house.local>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:34:52 -0500
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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@officeconnect.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Blake Pfankuch [mailto:blake@pfankuch.me]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 4:34 PM
To: NANOG (nanog@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
