Xirrus, Inc., the only Wi-Fi “Power-Play” that can replace Ethernet workgroup switches with Wi-Fi as the primary network connection, announced today its partnership with a leading Wi-Fi partner in the United Kingdom coupled with several significant wins that serve as a wake-up call that traditional Wi-Fi is no longer sufficient for leading enterprises in the United Kingdom market.

“Our customers want to replace Ethernet workgroup switches with Wi-Fi to increase the efficiency of their network and drive down infrastructure costs,” said Ben Wilson, commercial director at Wireless LAN Source. “Xirrus will become the Wi-Fi solution of choice for the enterprise, campus, and manufacturing segments throughout the UK—the Xirrus Wi-Fi Array is the only Wi-Fi device capable of delivering the same performance as a 24- or 48-port Ethernet switch while using far fewer devices, cables, and switch ports than traditional Wi-Fi offerings.”

The Farnborough Aerodrome is home to both the FIVE (Farnborough International Venue and Events) a permanent events venue and, of course, the world’s largest temporary event, the Farnborough International Airshow. Wireless LAN Source were appointed as the official communications provider for the 2008, 2010 and 2012 airshows as well as providing communications on an ongoing basis for the FIVE venue. Once appointed Wireless LAN Source knew the only product that would provide a powerful campus-wide indoor and outdoor 802.11a/b/g network to support the tens of thousands of concurrent attendees and exhibitors utilizing high bandwidth voice, video, and data applications was the Xirrus Wi-Fi Array.

Landmark Information Group, the United Kingdom’s leading supplier of digital mapping, property, and environmental risk information needed a robust Wi-Fi network capable of supporting and separating voice and data traffic via high performance 802.11a/b/g/n for over 200 clients. Wireless LAN Source deployed the Xirrus Wi-Fi Arrays giving Landmark the coverage, bandwidth, and throughput needed while deploying 31 fewer Wi-Fi devices and 75% fewer cables—making the installation and management far easier than competitive offerings.

“The demands placed on these high profile customers are tremendous—Wireless LAN Source understands these demands and has selected the Wi-Fi solution to meet those challenges,” said Chris Allen, Regional Sales Manager for Xirrus. “With the Xirrus Wi-Fi Array, customers can now ditch the Ethernet workgroup switch—install a wireless network with wired-equivalent performance and security.”

About Farnborough International Limited
The Farnborough International Airshow is organized by Farnborough International Ltd (FIL) is a subsidiary company of the UK’s aerospace trade association, the Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC). FIL is focused on delivering an innovative and cost-effective exhibition, maintaining the standing of the show as a world-class event in a competitive global industry. FIL has its permanent headquarters at Farnborough Aerodrome. For more information, visit farnborough.com.

About Landmark Information Group
Landmark Information Group is a Daily Mail and General Trust company, and is the UK’s leading supplier of digital mapping, property and environmental risk information. Landmark has an unrivalled source of large scale current and historic digital maps together with high quality environmental risk and planning information. The focus on quality data enables Landmark to provide solutions that create peace of mind for customers when using one of their services. For more information, visit landmarkinfo.co.uk.

Wireless LAN Source
Wireless LAN Source Ltd was founded in 2003 and is a specialist provider of wireless networking equipment and antennas. Since its inception, Wireless LAN Source has experienced year on year growth of 100% and has established itself as the leading provider of solutions and hardware in the wireless networking arena. Carefully selecting solutions based solely on the technology and capability has enabled Wireless LAN Source to work with major organizations in both the public and private sector. With specialist expertise in the delivery of high bandwidth, enterprise class solutions for both indoor and outdoor situations and ability to deploy VoIP over wireless, Wireless LAN Source is growing from strength to strength.

Based in Welshpool in Mid-Wales, close to Birmingham and Manchester, the premises provides both administration, engineering, testing and sales support. For more information on Wireless LAN Source, please visit wlansource.co.uk.

Xirrus Press Contact
John Merrill
E-mail: john.merrill@xirrus.com
Phone: +1 805 557 2872
About Xirrus
Xirrus, the leader in high performance Wi-Fi designs and manufactures the patented Wi-Fi Array. The Xirrus Wi-Fi Array obsoletes traditional Wi-Fi offerings by integrating 4, 8, or 16 radios and high-gain directional antennas into a single device along with an onboard Gigabit Switch, Wi-Fi Controller, Firewall, dedicated Wi-Fi Threat Sensor, and embedded Spectrum Analyzer, providing the performance and security to replace Ethernet workgroup switches with Wi-Fi technology. The Xirrus Wi-Fi Array delivers more range, more coverage, more bandwidth, more throughput, and more intelligence per cable drop than anything else available today - resulting in a solution that uses 75% fewer devices, cabling, switch ports, and installation time compared with any other offering. Xirrus Wi-Fi Arrays are ideal for any organization moving towards Wi-Fi as their primary network connection, especially those that must cover large areas, support large user populations, and/or use high bandwidth/throughput applications.

Xirrus is a privately-held company headquartered in Westlake Village, California. For more information, please visit www.xirrus.com.

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The Xirrus Wi-Fi Monitor is useful for both IT managers and end users, and is available as a Yahoo! Widget for Windows XP and a Gadget for Windows Vista. A radar-like display graphically shows available Wi-Fi networks and their range. Detailed information is available about your current Wi-Fi connection in addition to surrounding Wi-Fi networks, including SSID, signal strength, IP address, MAC address, security level, vendor, and network type. A Terminology section helps you make sense of all the Wi-Fi terms. Nine different color skins are available to customize the Wi-Fi Monitor’s look for your desktop.

Xirrus WiFi Gadget for Microsoft Windows XP

For Windows XP you’ll need Yahoo Widgets installed first.

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Xirrus WiFi Gadget for Microsoft Windows Vista

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Wireless LAN Source Ltd. is proud to announce the supply of a customised touring communications and cctv system to Total View Pty of Australia.

Building on our experiences of delivering business class services to the events market in the UK, the team at Wireless LAN Source designed and built a mobile, multi-service communications platform to enable Total View to deliver Voice, Data and CCTV to the events market in Australia.

Just a few of the 24 flightcases that make up the full rig.

The rig was given a thorough shakedown on the Big Day Out, Australia’s largest touring festival. Between Jan 17th and Feb 3rd we provided CCTV, telephony and Internet for every site including; Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide & Perth. The Perth deployment of 6 Cameras, 16 phones and WiFi Internet access for all backstage areas was completed in under 16 hours.

The CCTV system provides constant digital recording and instant access replay with full export (playable by any windows PC). The backbone wireless network allows flexible placement of Cameras throughout key areas, this backbone also provides connectivity around each site for Telephony and Internet access.

CCTV cameras on the Big Day Out Main Stage

Total View’s Jeff Gray taking care of business

The importance of CCTV for crowd management and safety at todays large events is becoming a significant factor in securing licensing, the support of local authorities, law enforcement and emergency services. As liability becomes more of a concern the ability to access archived footage is also critical. The system we designed for Total View meets all these requirements and is flexible and robust enough to withstand the rigours of a touring environment.

In addition to crowd management and safety the system was used to deliver voice and internet services for key production staff and the artists themselves. In most cases we had Internet and Telephony service up and running within an hour of arriving on site. Users were able to access the Internet using WiFi at multiple locations and kept the same Direct Dial number for the whole tour.

Our thanks to Matt Doherty and Jeff Gray of Total View for asking us to deliver such an advanced system and inviting me over to Australia to work on the system’s maiden outing. My personal thanks to Oliver Carswell and Stu Duffield for their work on tour. Big thanks also go to Kate Stewart and the whole Big Day Out family for looking after “The Geeks”.

We at Wireless LAN Source love the concept of the FON network, basically we add a FON router to our network at home and become a “Fonera”. Once registered we can then access free WiFi from other Fonera across the world and now BT Openzone hotspots in the UK as well!

Wireless LAN Source is an Official Fon Partner and we have Fon routers on the shelf ready to ship today.

Viva la revolution!!!!

The “We Love 2 Talk” service from Wireless LAN Source was tested to death over this summer at all the festivals, the support from our wholesale provider, Titan Technology was absolutely critical to our success.

My thanks to the whole team at Titan. You can read more in the press release below from Titan.

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Leading telephony solutions provider Titan Technology Limited, will be rocking and rolling at this year’s music festivals after being appointed to work with Wireless Events Ltd during the summer season.

Pipecentric is Titan Technology’s hosted VOIP service and this is the first year that festivals have chosen to go Hosted. Pipecentric will be providing Hosted Voice solutions at many of this year’s festivals including Glastonbury, Leeds, Oxygen, T in the Park, Reading, V and many more. 

Warwickshire based Titan began work last weekend as they successfully brought Isle of Wight, the oldest festival in the country, into the digital age.

The company was founded in 1996 to service SME’s with all telephony solutions including mobiles, broadband, line rental etc. In 2004 Titan recognised that IP telephony would eventually replace conventional telephony and became an early adopter of this technology. It is this experience that makes them a leader in hosted IP telephony and has resulted in their fast growth and ability to deal with complex projects such as these.

Jeremy Rollinson, Director at Wireless Events Ltd said, “Working with Titan and Pipecentric for Isle of Wight festival made everything so easy. We were able to install 8 broadband lines as opposed to having to find time to install more than 30 land lines which would have to have been done historically. It was certainly a challenge taking things VOIP but it went smoothly and I am looking forward to tackling the even bigger festivals over the summer now!”

Rob Murdoch, sales director at Titan technology Ltd said, ” Over the next three years it is estimated that more than 50% of corporate telecommunication will be run over IP networks – this is a classic example of that shift. There are massive benefits for festivals going VOIP - not least that it takes far less time than using traditional land lines and the fact that substantial cost savings will be made. We were thrilled to be able to support Wireless Events Ltd and are really looking forward to rest of the summer!”

Wireless LAN Source have successfully deployed a hospital wide wifi network for Europe’s largest Women’s Hospital.

Our bid was successful due to our specialist wireless expertise and the selection of the Xirrus wireless array system as our proposed solution. This is the first NHS contract for Wireless LAN Source and Xirrus, an important achievement in a highly competitive market.

Our solution was selected above strong competition from Cisco, Aruba, Trapeze and Colubris.

Xirrus Wi-Fi Arrays deliver the highest performance, longest range Wi-Fi in the industry. The Xirrus solution delivers 2X the range, 4X the coverage area and 14X the throughput of typical “commercial grade” access points. This means you deploy 75% fewer devices, cabling, switch ports, and significantly reduces installation time compared to any competitive solution available today.

Wireless LAN Source are offering free detailed site surveys for anyone interested in deploying a high quality wireless network. Please contact Ben Wilson or Ian Davison on 0207 9930270 for further details.

It’s been a very busy summer for us here at Wireless LAN Source. With our partner company Wireless Events we have provided Voice and Internet services to most of the major festivals in the UK and Ireland.

Providing a multi-service wired and wireless network in an office building is challenging in itself, the engineering team from Wireless LAN Source successfully deployed services at all of the following events;

• RAF Spirit of Adventure
• Isle of Wight Festival
• Glastonbury Festival
• T in the Park
• Oxegen
• RHS Tatton park Flower Show
• V Festival (Chelmsford & Weston park)
• Carling Leeds festival
• Carling Reading Festival
• Red Hot Chilli Peppers @ Hampden Park Stadium
• T on the Fringe
• Connect Festival

At each event we deployed a Wireless outdoor backbone network to service each area of the site. This wireless backbone was used to deploy basic Internet services as well as VPN connectivity for ticketing, supporting companies such as See Tickets and Ticketmaster.

Broadband connections were supplied by our ISP division “We Love Broadband” using our low contention, QoS enabled premium DSL connections.

The Voice platform is completely VoIP based using a hybrid of fully hosted phones and the Zultys IP PBX which supported analogue redundancy and full emergency services features. The hosted services and IP trunks were all serviced via our VoIP services platform “We Love 2 Talk”, which can deliver fully featured hosted VoIP handsets as well as IP trunk connectivity.

Wireless Events is able to deliver business class Internet and Voice services for any event in the UK & Europe. If you require further information please contact us.

“During testing, we were impressed with the robustness of the Xirrus Wi-Fi Array,“ said Kevin Tolly, president, CEO and founder of The Tolly Group. “We have yet to see another Wi-Fi solution with as many integrated failover features designed to ensure maximum network uptime.”

Xirrus commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the resiliency and failover features of its XS-3×00 family of Wi-Fi Arrays. Test highlights concluded that the Xirrus’ solution:

• Provides Ethernet uplink connectivity failover when using both Gigabit Ethernet ports from the XS-3900 Array
• Provides radio-to-radio failover between all Integrated Access Points (IAP)
• Supports wireless-to-wireless backhaul - Wireless Distribution System (WDS) failover among Arrays
• Provides wireless-to-wired WDS failover with two Wi-Fi Arrays deployed on two different wired networks
• Supports Array-to-Array failover

Full details of the Tolly report here.

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