Xirrus Announces Collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University
11/15/07 – Westlake Village-based Xirrus, the provider of high-performance, long-range wi-fi products, has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University to develop advanced wi-fi applications, to test its new high capacity 802.11n capable Wi-Fi Array, and to deploy a large quantity of Xirrus 802.11abgn Wi-Fi Arrays on the university’s campus as part of its campus-wide upgrade project.
Xirrus will open up its Linux-based Wi-Fi Array Operating System, or ArrayOS, to Carnegie Mellon and participate in co-development of advanced features and applications that include services such as device and network management, roaming pattern analysis, and usage pattern analysis.
As a result of the partnership, Xirrus says that Carnegie Mellon will be one of the first beta program participants of the new Xirrus 802.11n wi-fi protocol and will play an active role in executing real world tests of the new 802.11abgn Wi-Fi Array, capable of delivering the equivalent performance of a 24-port managed fast Ethernet switch with dual load-balanced Gigabit Ethernet uplinks.
The announcement of this latest partnership is a continuation of a steady stream of major deployments of Xirrus’s Wi-Fi Array wireless access product this year. The company was founded in 2004 by former Xircom executives and is backed by U.S. Venture Partners and August Capital.
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