THOUSAND OAKS, CA — (Marketwire) — 02/23/12 — Xirrus®, the leading provider of high-performance wireless networks, today announced verification of their high-scalability, carrier-grade Wireless Array platform using the line of products from Ixia®. These tests prove both that Wi-Fi is capable of meeting the rapidly growing needs of carriers for mobile data offload and that Xirrus is the leader in high-performance, high-density wireless networking — supporting thousands of users per access device. Xirrus is showcasing the wireless solution at Ixia-s booth #1E47, Hall 1 at in Barcelona Spain, February 27-29.
The rapid adoption of the and other tablet computers over the past two years, along with rich media applications, has placed an ever increasing strain on wireless networks everywhere, especially those of carriers. Network administrators and carriers are therefore searching for solutions to answer the call for powerful, scalable, and trusted wireless access. By placing significant emphasis on RF innovation and scalability from the beginning, Xirrus has ensured its Wireless Array architecture supports the unique characteristics and performance demands of today-s and tomorrow-s wireless networks.
Xirrus uses to perform high scale, real-world capacity tests on its Wireless Arrays. The high scale tests measure actual device performance with media-rich applications to demonstrate that the Arrays are capable of supporting the rigorous demands required for carrier deployments. Tests conducted on the XR platform using include:
tests that validate the maximum client support on a single . The 8-modular access point supports up to 1,920 simultaneous client connections — the highest in the industry. Testing to this level of scale is only realistic with test equipment such as .
tests that emulate up to 150,000 unique clients connecting to a single over a period of 1 hour. A set of 500 clients at a time connect to an 8-modular access point to verify the ability to handle high usage, high turnover scenarios such as public access in stadiums, conference centers, or universities.
tests that emulate typical traffic mixes in deployments such as education, healthcare, hot spots, and service provider managed services. These tests ensured that Service Level Agreement criteria is being met for each traffic type.
tests that validate Quality of Experience for multiple video and audio streams using the WaveQoE test suite. These tests emulate real video streams, which are sensitive to network transport issues, and validates that Service Level Agreement criteria is being met.
“The population of wireless devices has exploded in the past year, leading to the need for carriers to look for alternatives to their existing cellular networks for data offloading, and the need for us to scale performance testing of our to the ultimate limits,” said Bruce Miller, VP of Product Marketing at Xirrus. “With up to 16 modular access points per Array and support for up to several thousand wireless clients per Array, this type of test system is fundamental to our ability to assess product scalability. While we run test beds with several hundreds of real clients (laptops, , , etc.), the system allows us to scale to the next level, while at the same time accurately measuring the quality of experience delivered by applications running in such high usage environments.”
“Wi-Fi is now essential to the future success of cellular operators everywhere,” said Joe Zeto, senior manager, marketing development at Ixia. “Site surveys yield little useful information beyond coverage alone. Test and verification solutions like Ixia-s allow Xirrus to fully characterize the capacity of their Wi-Fi solution, and the understand the QoE for customers using the network.”
Introduced in October 2011, the Wireless Array is the first modular, chassis-based wireless platform. Xirrus enables business to deliver significant performance improvements over conventional offerings, delivering better security and equivalent reliability of wired networking to their users.
This high-performance, high-density wireless platform supports two to sixteen modular access points per Array — ideal for a wide-range of deployments, from sparse usage areas to those with ultra-high user density. The platform-s modularity enables a long product lifespan with the ability to increase capacity over time by adding modular access points or migrating to new, higher speed technologies, like 802.11ac, as they become available.
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Ixia-s solutions test Wi-Fi devices and wireless LAN networks using a unique client-centric model that precisely measures the real-world behavior of mobile device, their impact on other devices, and overall network performance. This approach delivers repeatable large-scale, real-world test scenarios that are virtually impossible to create by any other means.
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Xirrus is the leading provider of high-performance wireless networks. Our array-based solutions perform under the most demanding circumstances — always. Their wired-like reliability and superior security allow our customers to confidently take their business-critical applications and operations mobile. Our solutions are unique in the industry, transforming enterprises and organizations around the world. At a time when everyone expects to connect wirelessly everywhere and business is increasingly done in the cloud, Xirrus wireless solutions are providing a vital strategic business and IT infrastructure advantage in thousands of deployments worldwide. Headquartered in Thousand Oaks, CA, Xirrus is a privately held enterprise designing and manufacturing its products and solutions in the USA.
Ixia provides the industry-s most comprehensive converged IP services testing — from the wireless edge to the Internet core. , , , and use Ixia-s industry-leading test and simulation platforms to design and validate a broad range of wired, , and networking equipment and networks. Ixia-s solutions create real-world conditions by emulating a full range of and generating to validate performance, and of , core, , , and networks. For more information, visit . (NASDAQ: XXIA)
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