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[glennda]

Its nice to see somebody that enjoys selling there product that actually knows about how it works in detail rather then just reading of a crib sheet down the phone! There is a school not far from here which uses Xirrus and from what i have heard it is very good for what it does.

 

Toby

[featured_spectre]

I need some kind of vauge idea about how much your system costs before I can even talk to the bursar about it.

 

For full coverage of my school it would have cost us ~£8000. It is a very good system and the site survey is quite thorough!

[Xirrus]

If you are budgeting for a managed, enterprise class wifi system then we will fit in that budget. If you sned me contact details we can have chat, then i can get some budgetary figures together for you.

 

Thanks

 

Ben

[Soulfish]

When we were quoted last year it was around £20k for Ruckus and around £15-20k for Xirrus for site wide coverage (1050 pupils on one site spread over about 7 buildings).

[mickeyh080]

We are currently looking for a site wide wireless solution and have just recently had a Xirrus survey. Have to admit the AP's are pretty impressive both in terms of content/build quality and as of today we have begun testing a unit on loan. So far things look good. Have to admit the external coverage displayed during the survey was rather impressive, think we might need to turn the juice down a bit on the external AP possibly to not wipe out any of the neighbours !!!!

From wireless newbies i.e in house Netgear solution that does not work we are slowly gaining the know on various solutions including HP and Ruckus which again we have tested. To date we think that the Xirrus solution is the only one guaranteed to give coverage and more importantly capacity allowing 30 users to login per classroom if required, something we have had lots of headaches with before.

Early days but things are looking good and yes flashing lights always help the sales pitch. Shame it costs an arm and a leg but hey you get what you pay for!!!!

[Xirrus]

If you need anything just let me know - always here to help.

 

Thanks

 

Ben

[dhicks]

When we were quoted last year it was around £20k for Ruckus and around £15-20k for Xirrus for site wide coverage (1050 pupils on one site spread over about 7 buildings).

 

It would seem we would be looking at a similar-to-Ruckus kind of price, then - around £10,000, maybe a bit under that, for our quite-spread-out 800-pupil school. If the Bursar mentions any kind of inclination to look at managed wireless systems I think I'd certainly get both Ruckus and Xirrus in to compare.

 

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David Hicks

[mickeyh080]

Wow thats a cheap quote for such a wide area, how far apart are the buildings and approximately how many classrooms were you surveyed for ?

 

is the quote for A,B,G,N as I know this affects the cost or was it without N ?

 

We have approximately the same number of students spread over 3 buildings and the costs are in a different league to what you have been quoted !!!!

 

When we were quoted last year it was around £20k for Ruckus and around £15-20k for Xirrus for site wide coverage (1050 pupils on one site spread over about 7 buildings).

[Xirrus]

It could have been 1 array per building and a basic coverage survey if capacity wasn't an issue. Every site is different hence why we do a real life site survey and guarantee our work.

 

Ben

[Xirrus]

There's been a lot of misquotation, rumours and plain rubbish talked about us recently, specifically about one of our sites where we have solved an issue where others failed. This is spread by competitors who can't compete on technical level, so they start using fear, uncertainty and doubt.

 

The customer has posted to clear any confusion up on another thread. Interesting reading for anyone looking to do capacity.

 

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/bsf/14672-bsf-wasting-money-before-we-start.html

 

Thanks

 

Ben

[rudivd]

Dear Wireless users, Ben

 

I'm looking for an OUTDOOR solution supporting about 15K users,

(*not* all wanting to surf the web at the same time :-), more like

15K associations)

Are there any Whitepapers on sizing this with respect to #users/AP

#AP/s per Area, backend infra needed ??

 

Rudi

[rbance]

I have 11 of these things on my site and they work very well.....I have the XMS module as well for management. I will also be getting more based on the site survey they carried out.

 

 

Again...while Xirrus works very very well for me. They key is the site survey....you need to properly evaluate what works well for your particular situation...

 

One school near me demonstrated something like 200 devices all streaming video through one Xirrus device...........that was pretty amazing......

[Get2theChoppa]

Mr Xirrus

 

I know this thread is like few years old now....

 

but we might be calling on your expertise to help us get rid of our crappy wireless network running on DLINK hardware