Wi-Fi – It’s a Business Enabler or Inhibitor

How’s it working for you?

Charles Burns, Xirrus

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The State of Wi-Fi

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SOURCE: Cisco VNI Mobile, Dell’Oro Group, Wireless LAN Report Five Year Forecast 2014-2018, Gartner, Gartner Strategy Analytics, Morgan Stanley Research

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The average

smartphone

will generate

of traffic

per month

by 20194GB6.5M

New Wi-Fi devices ship

everyday

Globally, mobile data

traffic will reach

24.3per month by 2019of users say that bad Wi-Fi has

kept them from doing their job84%

of users think76%

62% still use it

Public Wi-Fi is not secure

25B

connected things by 2020

Exabytes

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Enable: • Provide with the means or opportunity

• To make possible, practical, or easy

• To cause to operate

• To cause (a feature or capability) to be active or available for use

Wi-Fi and Your Business

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Inhibit: • To prevent or slow down the activity or occurrence of (something)

• To hold in check : restrain

• To discourage from free or spontaneous activity

• To prohibit from doing something

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The Reality of Wi-Fi Performance

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Wi-Fi Has Changed, Demanded Everywhere

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Density/Volume is the #1 Challenge

Users Applications

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Devices

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Wi-Fi Key Performance Indicators

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Business Enablement

— Stakeholder Involvement—

— Application Reliability—

— Infrastructure Flexibility—— Financial Value—

Financial

Stakeholders

Applications

Infrastructure

£ $ €

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Wi-Fi Dependability Stakeholders

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It’s Not just for IT’s Benefit

— Information Technology —

— Operations —

— Marketing —— Sales —

Budgets

BYOC

SaaS

BYOD

£ $ €

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Application Management

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— Business Critical —

— Social Media —

— Bandwidth Hogs —

— Multimedia —

PRIORITIZE – LIMIT – BLOCK - TIMELIMIT

Guaranteed Reliability

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Wi-Fi Infrastructure Management

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Cloud Based

Visibility & Manageability

— Access Management —

— Client Management —

— Application Management —

— Infrastructure Management —

Who

What

Why ??

WAPs

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Financial Value

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How Much Wi-Fi Is Enough

— Initial Costs —

—Continual Monitoring —

— Solution Longevity —

— Continual Investment —

Budgeting

Affordability

Lifecycle

Adaptability

TCO

£ €

Differentiated Wi-FiThe Xirrus Advantage

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• Zero-touch Provisioning

• Intuitive And Simple UI

• Massively Scalable

• Firewall Friendly

• Multi-tenant

Xirrus Cloud Services

IT

Manager

CUSTOMER PREMISE

Management

Console

XMS-Cloud

EasyPass

XIRRUS

CLOUD SERVICES

Wi-Fi Access Network

Activation

Monitoring and

Configuration

Management

ANYWHERE

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Xirrus AP Portfolio

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Model / Series XR-320 X2 XR-600 XD2 XD4 XR-2000 XR-4000 XR-6000

Max Number

of Radios2 2 2 2 4 4 8 16

Technology 11ac Wave 1 11ac Wave 1 11ac Wave 1 11ac Wave 2 11ac Wave 1 11ac Wave 1 11ac Wave 1 11ac Wave 1

Technology

UpgradableNA NA NA NA NA 11ac Wave 2 11ac Wave 2 11ac Wave 2

TurboXpress

(all radios 11ac)NA NA Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Controller Integrated Integrated Integrated Integrated Integrated Integrated Integrated Integrated

Uplinks 1 GigE 1 GigE 2 GigE 2 GigE 2 GigE 2 GigE 2 GigE4 GigE

1 - 10 GigE

Example Use

Cases

Hotels

Dorms

Offices

Offices

Hotels

Classrooms

Offices

Classrooms

Retail

Dense Offices

Classrooms

Classrooms

Conf Rooms

Libraries

Classrooms

Conf Rooms

Libraries

Auditoriums

Conventions

Auditoriums

Conventions

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Xirrus Wi-Fi Solutions Are Powerful, Easy-to-Use, and Provide

the Best Value and Performance in the Industry

To Sum It Up – Wi-Fi That Just Works

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Flexible Services =

Ultimate Simplicity

High Performance Design

= Reliable Wi-Fi Service

Less Infrastructure =

Up to 50% Lower TCO

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Thank You!

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