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• Xirrus unveils rugged Wi-Fi 'super access point'

  By John Cox | 19 April, 2012 05:28

  WLAN vendor Xirrus announced its first outdoor Wi-Fi products, a hardened access point and two sealed enclosures that can encase its indoor product line.

• Three-stream Wi-Fi hits the mark

  By Craig Mathias | 27 March, 2012 01:06

  The rapid adoption of 802.11n has become a significant milestone in the history of wireless LANs. The MIMO-based technologies used in most 802.11n systems provide enough throughput, reliability, and rate vs. range performance to effectively remove the last major barriers to the broad adoption of WLANs in the enterprise.

• Plano, Texas schools see benefits from district-wide Wi-Fi

  By Matt Hamblen | 23 December, 2011 23:12

  Wi-Fi has been around long enough to become a fact of life for many wireless users, and that's increasingly true in education settings in the U.S.

• Xirrus looks to make strides in A/NZ

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 11 October, 2011 11:04

  Wireless networking vendor, Xirrus, has announced a new product that it claims will provide its channel substantial advantages over the competition.

• New Router Array Brings More Wi-Fi to High-Traffic Areas

  By Megan Geuss | 08 October, 2011 03:29

  If customers or employees often complain that your business’ Wi-Fi is too slow, you aren’t alone as wireless demands have been higher than ever, and don’t show any signs of abating. But solving that problem may not just be about upgrading your wireless routing devices, or analyzing for interference of the signal. Instead, slow Wi-Fi might stem from the fact that customers just have too many devices, and your company needs more wireless access points to help them all get online.

• Distribution Central adds Xirrus’ Wi-Fi products

  By Patrick Budmar | 20 June, 2011 16:53

  Distribution Central adds Xirrus’ Wi-Fi products

• Xirrus appoints Arcuri as A/NZ manager

  By Hafizah Osman | 14 June, 2011 10:35

  Xirrus appoints Arcuri as country manager A/NZ

• 6 useful Wi-Fi tools for Windows

  By Preston Gralla | 02 September, 2010 04:16

  We live in a mobile world; if you have a laptop (and who doesn't?), that means constantly connecting to the Internet via Wi-Fi. You most likely use Wi-Fi not just when you're on the road at cafés, airports or hotels, but to connect to your home network too. You might even connect to a wireless network at the office.

• Bluesocket unveils virtual Wi-Fi controller on VMware

  By John Cox | 01 September, 2010 05:51

  Bluesocket is offering its rebuilt enterprise Wi-Fi controller software on virtual machine platforms, the first one being VMware. The company will port the code for other hypervisor platforms in the future.

• inTechnology brings Xirrus down under

  By Trevor Clarke | 05 January, 2009 11:29

  Distributor, inTechnology, has brought on US-based Wi-Fi vendor, Xirrus, to strengthen its play in the education sector.