Xirrus, Inc., recently announced that it’s installed its 802.11 abg+n WiFi (News - Alert) arrays in Uffculme School in Cullompton, United Kingdom. The school’s officials say they’re replacing their existing access point system architecture and that with the new deployment, Uffculme will receive superior network performance for wireless video streaming and one-on-one computer initiatives.
This transition was achieved in an efficient, speedy and without interference and has provided the school with the increased bandwidth necessary to make WiFi its primary connection.
Xirrus is a reputed manufacturer of WiFi array architecture that has sought transition from the current WiFi technology and brought Ethernet to the average desktop. The WiFi array brings together 4, 8, 12, 16 or 24 802.11 abg+n radios along with an efficient directional antenna system in a single mechanism along with a committed multi-gigabit switch, WiFi controller, firewall, dedicated WiFi threat sensor, and an ingrained spectrum analyzer. The WiFi array provides with more than sufficient bandwidth, safety and power to enable seamless transition from switched Ethernet to the desktop.
Uffculme School is Foundation Comprehensive School for boys and girls aged 11to16. With nearly 950 students and 140 members of staff spread across nine buildings, the primary objective of the school is to provide a holistic approach to education, nourishing them morally and spiritually, enabling students achieve their full potential in multiple ways and develop all the skills and qualifications required to prepare them for adulthood and become well-rounded members of the community they live in.
They have been acclaimed as a specialist school in Mathematics and Computing since 2005 and also designated as a High Performing Specialist School for Applied Learning. In the words of Lorraine Heath, headteacher at the Uffculme, “A central strand of the move to personalize the learning experience for all students is our goal to provide every student with a laptop computer with ready access to media resources and the internet.”
The existing WiFi coverage at Uffculme was sufficient but fell short of user density for four new class sets of 32 laptops each. The need to deploy a WiFi solution of the highest quality was realized keeping in mind the diverse computing platforms from notebooks to Blackberry and PDAs, accessing the Uffculme School Portal Digital Media and their future video streaming and 1-1 initiatives. Xirrus was chosen over others because of the low number of access devices needed to cover all nine campuses and their capability to effectively cope in high density environments.
Simon Hollister, Regional Manager at Xirrus, says, “With a single cable drop, one of our WiFi Arrays can cover multiple classrooms, support hundreds of concurrent users, and deliver the bandwidth necessary to implement a successful 1:1 student computer initiative – no other WiFi company can come close to this accomplishment.”
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