Niagara Bottling Deploys Xirrus Wi-Fi Arrays to Achieve High Throughput Wireless Across Six Bottling Plants

2008-05-08 16:13:13 -

- Xirrus, Inc., the only Wi-Fi "Power-Play" that can replace Ethernet workgroup switches with Wi-Fi as the primary network connection, announced today the deployment of Xirrus Wi-Fi Arrays across Niagara Bottling's six plants - increasing the efficiency, productivity, and flexibility of Niagara's operations.

Niagara Bottling is the largest American family owned bottled water company, supplying private-labeled water to many of the nation's largest grocery retailers, club stores, and convenience chains. Like any market-leading organization, Niagara Bottling was desirous to automate their warehouse operations by replacing legacy wired clients with wireless - forklifts equipped with wireless tablets and workers outfitted with wireless handheld scanners - allowing for improved tracking and real-time synchronization of data with ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems.

"For our wireless network to be successful, it was imperative we have pervasive coverage throughout the warehouses and have the same high speed connection and reliability we were accustomed to with our wired architecture," said Canaan Reich, CIO at Niagara Bottling. "The Xirrus Wi-Fi Array effectively replaced our wired connections. We are seeing improved operational performance due to the wireless solution we put in place--and the Xirrus' Wi-Fi Array architecture made this possible."

"Our customers want to replace wired connections with wireless to increase the efficiency of their network and to be more flexible with network changes," said Charles Bettinelli, regional manager at Xirrus. "We have the only Wi-Fi solution that can replace 24- and 48-port workgroup switches--no other Wi-Fi vendor can supply the coverage, bandwidth, user capacity, or security per port as Xirrus can."

About Niagara Bottling

Established in 1963, Niagara Bottling, LLC has grown to become the largest American family owned bottled water company. Besides selling water under their own label Niagara Water, they also supply the private label water to many of the nation's largest grocery retailers, club stores, and convenience chains. Niagara Bottling currently operates six bottle packaging and bottles facilities across the United States. For more information, visit niagarawater.com.

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 xirrus.com.

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