Xirrus Extends Its Secure Wi-Fi Power-Play with Its Recent Achievement of FIPS 140-2 Certification.

Xirrus, Inc., the only Wi-Fi "Power-Play" that can replace Ethernet workgroup switches with Wi-Fi as the primary network connection, announces certification by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) for having achieved Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 validation of Xirrus' product line of Wi-Fi Arrays. 

FIPS 140-2 Certification initiates sales of the high performance Wi-Fi Array to government agencies and adds to the list of business-critical security features of the product that includes: 

- Line-rate hardware-based multi-mode Wi-Fi encryption for all users all the time 
- Integrated and dedicated Wi-Fi Threat Sensor for continuous monitoring of the air 
- Integrated rules-based stateful firewall 
- Reprogrammable FPGA-based encryption engines 
- Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliant product 
- Integrated Spectrum Analyzer for DoS attacks and RF analysis 
- Policy based user groups and Advanced RADIUS/802.1x authentication 
- Secure Seamless Layer 2/3 Mobility 
- Captive Web Portals for guest user authentication and control 
- Self-monitoring, highly available, Linux based, modular, and upgradeable platform 
- Penetration-tested software and hardware platform 

A lack of Wi-Fi encryption performance for all users all the time at line-rate is the Achilles' heel of the industry and results in poor performance because of bottlenecks endemic to centralized controllers. The Xirrus Wi-Fi Array puts the intelligence, processing, and encryption power at the edge of the network-leading the industry with the most AES/WPA2 encryption processing on a per radio basis. Xirrus Wi-Fi technology offers the easiest and most cost-effective way to deploy a high performance FIPS certified wireless network that is perfect for secure government and retail deployments. The Xirrus Array is the only FIPS-certified device capable of high performance encrypted multi-radio Wi-Fi MESH networking-capable of encrypted Fast and Gigabit Ethernet-like speeds of wireless MESH links between Xirrus Arrays. 

Federal customers can now purchase a high performance Wi-Fi network that obsoletes traditional Wi-Fi offerings by delivering 2X more range, 4X more coverage, 8X more bandwidth, and, 14X more throughput per cable drop-all while using 75% fewer devices, cables, switch ports, and installation time allowing users to replace traditional wired workgroup switches.