Designed to meet the ever-increasing global demand for high-performance enterprise wireless technology that can truly deliver the latest high-bandwidth applications and built to enhance the Extricom Channel Blanket’s inherently high throughput whilst maintaining the other unique advantages of the architecture, the EXRP-33N, EXRP-32N, EXRP-22N and EXRP-22EN products are equipped with the latest best-of-breed silicon and radio modules and the most advanced radio layer features, including Transmit Beam Forming (TxBF), Space-Time Block Code (STBC), Low Density Parity Check (LDPC), Maximum Likelihood (ML) detection, Maximum Ratio Combining (MRC) and Cyclic Delay Code (CDC).

Further information on the Extricom Product Line can be found in the Extricom section of the website, or visit the Extricom website at http://www.extricom.com/.

The warehouse environment creates serious challenges for traditional WLAN deployments. Though warehouses are typically open spaces that would seem suited to wireless signal propagation, their construction and layout can be problematic, with metal structures and corridors making coverage difficult to achieve. Other obstacles include a changing RF landscape due to the movement of goods and roaming and re-authentication issues that can impact productivity of a highly mobile workforce.

Read more on Extricom Wireless LAN for Logistics here…

BETT is the world’s leading event for educational technology where education professionals can evaluate and purchase a comprehensive range of ICT products and services. From early-years provision to universities, BETT is an indispensable part of the annual knowledge-gathering process, coming at a time when establishments are planning and budgeting for the new school year.

Dedicated to showcasing the best in UK and international educational technology products, resources and best practice, BETT has enabled thousands of practitioners to enhance their knowledge of learning through technology.

For schools considering a WLAN deployment, looking to upgrade their existing WLAN or wanting to introduce iPads or BYOD strategies in the coming year, a visit to BETT 2012 and time on the Extricom Stand C90 will be time well spent.

Extricom WLAN is based on a simple yet powerful idea: eliminate the concept of cell-planning, and replace it with Channel Blanket™ architecture. An effective wireless network is an enabling technology that provides students, faculty and guests with the opportunity to embrace ‘everywhere learning’ with robust, reliable connectivity. In an era of intensive wireless usage powered by the market explosion of smart phones, iPads, iPods, tablets and other communication devices, Extricom delivers a guaranteed Wi-Fi connection with seamless mobility for voice, data, video, and location services.

Taking place on 11-14 January 2012 at Olympia in London, BETT attracts more than 600 educational suppliers and around 30,000 visitors. It brings together the global teaching and learning community for four days of innovations and inspirations. Extricom’s innovation will be displayed through live demonstrations, videos and presentations, giving people the opportunity to experience first-hand the unique benefits and value of Extricom WLAN to education. Extricom will also be showcasing their newest Access Point products, set to enhance their Product Portfolio for 2012. Designed to meet the ever-increasing global demand for high-performance enterprise wireless technology that can truly deliver the latest high-bandwidth applications, the new products will bring diversity and flexibility to an already outstanding product range.

Visiting BETT 2012 is free. For further information, visit www.bettshow.com.

About Extricom:

Extricom is a manufacturer of 4th generation enterprise wireless LAN solutions, based on its Channel Blanket™ technology. While adhering to the 802.11 a/b/g/n standard, Extricom’s patented, Interference-Free architecture takes a completely new approach to the way the infrastructure is deployed. The Channel Blanket topology provides wire-like reliability, high throughput, seamless mobility, unparalleled noise immunity, and is easy to install and maintain. In an era of intensive wireless usage powered by the market explosion of smart phones, iPads, iPods, tablets and other communication devices, voice, data, video, and location services are delivered with an always-on, robust and mobile Wi-Fi connection to any client, in any environment. Extricom Interference-Free™ WLAN is purpose-built to slash wireless complexity and future-proof your network for tomorrow’s multi-service demands.

Extricom solutions are in use by customers operating in numerous industries worldwide, including Education, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Logistics and Warehousing, Retail and public venues. They have discovered the uncompromising performance, reliability and ease of ownership that are the hallmark of the Extricom WLAN.

Extricom serves its growing global customer base through offices in the USA, Europe and Japan, and by working with a global network of distributors and partners.

For more information, visit us at www.extricom.com.

Caludon Castle School chooses the Extricom Channel Blanket wireless solution to replace the failing existing Cisco wireless network.

With the simultaneous demands of both the student body and the staff network, the original Cisco wireless solution installed during the rebuild was faltering. The 3rd generation cell-based technology was unable to cope with concurrent connections required to get a classroom of 30 users seamlessly connected to the network without considerable delay and performance reduction. And the constant re-arrangement of the flexible seating set-up in one of the teaching halls also meant that the wireless signal became continuously intermittent.

Driven by the need to offer instant connectivity and ‘everywhere learning’ across the campus, Mr Paul Harvey, Assistant Headteacher at Caludon Castle decided to investigate alternative wireless solutions. The only one that made the grade? Extricom.

For full details click here to download the case study pdf document, or call sales on 01928 515600 or email us …education@solutionshouse.ltd.uk

Your challenge is to identify the right solution that can make this promise a reality and provide your students, faculty and guests with the opportunity to embrace ‘everywhere learning’ with robust, reliable connectivity. Put simply, Extricom delivers.

To find out more information click the link below to download the pdf:

extricom school pdf

Our engineers have now installed well over 100 Extricom networks and we also support many Extricom wireless networks not installed by us.

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The latest Extricom products were displayed through live demonstrations, videos and presentations and we were pleased to hear such positive feedback from visitors and potential clients to our stand. For schools considering a WLAN deployment, looking to upgrade their existing WLAN or wanting to introduce iPads or BYOD strategies in the coming year, a visit to BETT 2012 and time on the Solutions House / Extricom Stand C90 was time well spent.

If you would like to find out how we can help your school get in touch with our specialist education team – email contact@solutionshouse.ltd.uk or telephone 01928 515600.

Dedicated to showcasing the best in UK and international educational technology products, resources and best practice, BETT has enabled thousands of practitioners to enhance their knowledge of learning through technology. BETT attracts more than 600 educational suppliers and around 30,000 visitors. It brings together the global teaching and learning community for four days of innovations and inspirations.

Extricom Continues To Lead The Way To Higher Bandwidth WLAN

New York, NY – October 7, 2010 – Extricom Ltd., a designer and manufacturer of high-performance, next generation wireless LAN (WLAN) infrastructure solutions, announced today that it will launch the world’s first enterprise-grade 802.11n access point with 3 spatial streams, the EXRP-33n, at IPExpo, in London England, October 20-21.

Extricom’s Channel BlanketTM is the perfect architecture to harness the power of 3×3 MIMO technology, and is particularly suited for deployments in bandwidth-intensive applications such as the education, medical, and general office verticals. The Channel BlanketTM eliminates the complex RF cell-planning normally required for 802.11n, and also eliminates the co-channel interference that can severely degrade 802.11n throughput. Consequently, Extricom customers already today realize the true potential of 802.11n technology and will continue to do so in 3-stream deployments.

In addition to enhancing the Channel Blanket’s inherently high throughput, the EXRP-33n maintains the other unique advantages of the Channel Blanket architecture, such as zero-handoff mobility, aggregated TrueReuseTM, and built-in QoS that is superior to WMM, for streaming HD video and voice over wireless applications.

Ramy Buechler, Director of Product Management, stated, “Extricom’s Channel Blanket technology has been widely adopted by businesses and institutions looking for a wireless LAN that delivers high-throughput. The EXRP-30n, Extricom’s proven 2-stream 802.11n AP, has already established effective throughput benchmarks of 190 Mbps (TCP) and 250 Mbps (UDP) per link and is very popular in throughput-intensive environments.

The EXRP-33n will extend the product-line even further with its 450 Mbps air rate and 3×3 MIMO technology”.

About Extricom

Extricom is a manufacturer of advanced wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) systems based on its Channel BlanketTM technology. The Channel Blanket architecture provides high throughput, seamless mobility, and is easy to install and maintain. Visit our website at http://www.extricom.com/

The EXRP-33n will be made available to selected customers in Q4, and will be commercially available in Q1, 2011.

For full details, please click on the following link:- http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/10/prweb4617574.htm

Solutions House are a ‘Select’ Extricom Parntner with Extricom ‘Certified’ Systems Engineers.

For further information, please click the following link:- http://www.solutionshouse.ltd.uk/about-solutions-house-it-wireless/extricom-certified/

Although the 5GHz band offers multiple 40MHz-wide channels for wireless networking, the reality is that many deployment scenarios will require some form of cell-planning, which presents a challenge given the unpredictable coverage caused by MIMO. The figure below shows how a cell-based solution is prevented from creating a predictable coverage environment. Each AP will have sporadic and changing coverage, which will inevitably impact other APs using the same channel in the wireless network.

Extricom is the only WLAN technology immune to cell-induced problems and variability of MIMO coverage. In fact, because MIMO improvements are opportunistic, the Extricom architecture actually improves MIMO performance by providing the “best” MIMO path on a packet-by-packet basis to a wireless network client, thus adding robustness and stability to a highly variable technology.

The much-anticipated launch of the Apple iPad in January 2010 was met with a mixture of cheers and groans from the technology media. But however well it may do in the consumer marketplace, the iPad is already attracting immense, and largely positive, attention among those who cover the world of education and IT.

Most commentators think the iPad will make immediate inroads in the education market, an arena where Apple already holds considerable market- and mind-share.

A strong determining factor in the iPad’s education market penetration is wireless LAN, which will be critical infrastructure for making it a viable classroom technology. This means the WLAN must be able to support the greatly increased demand for network resources that will come from iPad users.

In Extricom’s latest Technology Brief, The iPad, Wireless LAN, and Education, Extricom delves into issues that affect integrators and ICT administrators alike, providing an overview of the iPad’s potential as an education tool, discussing its potential impact on wireless LANs in schools and universities, and detailing how WLAN architecture can make a difference in handling the coming wave of iPads.

You can download the Technology Brief here:

The ipad, Wireless LAN and Education – Making Sure Your Environment is ‘Tablet-Ready’

or

www.extricom.com/content/microsite/ipad

The award-winning Extricom Wireless LAN System incorporates multiple breakthrough innovations in a system that raises the bar for WLAN performance, flexibility, and ease of ownership.

Groundbreaking architectural thinking gives you a solution that is fully IEEE 802.11-compliant, but changes all of the paradigms about the Wi-Fi experience.

Solutions House have installed the Extricom Beta Firmware version 4.4 which gives a number of new features at Stoke Park School & Community Technology College.

Read the full Stoke Park – First Again article case study, download the pdf here…

For a demonstration, site survey or details of our loan evaluation kit please contact Solutions House on 01928 515 600 or email education@solutionshouse.ltd.uk.

Most commentators think the iPad will make immediate inroads in the education market, an arena where Apple already holds considerable market- and mind-share.

A strong determining factor in the iPad’s education market penetration is wireless LAN, which will be critical infrastructure for making it a viable classroom technology. This means the WLAN must be able to support the greatly increased demand for network resources that will come from iPad users.

In Extricom’s latest Technology Brief, The iPad, Wireless LAN, and Education, Extricom delves into issues that affect integrators and ICT administrators alike, providing an overview of the iPad’s potential as an education tool, discussing its potential impact on wireless LANs in schools and universities, and detailing how WLAN architecture can make a difference in handling the coming wave of iPads.

A primary focus at Extricom is creating “future-proofed” wireless. This means designing products that can support any post-deployment application or network requirement without additional customization or physical upgrades.

With this in mind, Extricom is pleased to announce that all of its currently shipping 802.11n products qualify as Wi-Fi CERTIFIEDT n. You can be confident their wireless infrastructure investment will retain its value throughout the product lifecycle.

In addition, any new features in the final 802.11n standard have been defined as optional for Wi-Fi CERTIFIED n. So Extricom’s current 802.11n products will interoperate with future 11n products that are certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance.

To find out more about Extricom 802.11n and the complete list of certified products, please visit: http://www.extricom.com. Solutions House are happy to provide quotes for all of Extricom’s 802.11n WiFi Certified products and solutions.

Or at least it does when you are designing a workable wireless LAN for commercial, industrial and public service environments. The Extricom response is really, really big access points:

For example, try thinking about piping music into 20 rooms. Traditional managed wireless would set up an all-in-one stereo in each room and then use a complex system to coordinate them so they played the same tune at the same time. Extricom would have one stereo unit, with speakers cabled into each room. Simple!

The key-limiting factor for every wireless solution is the legally demarked bandwidths available to broadcast its signal. Within the 2.4 GHz band there are only three channels you can broadcast on where the signal does not interfere with the others. For example if this was radio stations, you could only fit three in before you would hear the stations talking over one another.

A wireless access point has a radio in it, and this radio broadcasts on one of the available channels, allowing devices to find, connect and network through it. If you want to put another access point next to it, the access point has to use a different channel so devices don’t get confused about where the signal is coming from. A bit like a contestant on a game show getting muddled with the audience all shouting different answers at the same time. This is the same case for the third access point, until you reach the fourth where you have to return to broadcast on the first channel you used (because you have run out of the three you have available). Therefore these access points cannot be sited next to one another. Managed wireless LANs have come about to coordinate this radio frequency issue and allow simpler management to the configuration of these devices.

Some managed solutions of this style go a step further and interfere with the IEEE standards, stripping off acknowledgments from packets to allow small clusters of access points to broadcast on the same channel. These are additional layers of processing that need to be coordinated by a controller located elsewhere within your LAN, the same LAN already carrying all your other network traffic.

Extricom decided to completely bypass all of these issues by just making their access points really big. A ball of coverage with a radius of up to 200 meters and an ability to accept over 2000 + simultaneous connections big, that’s how big we are talking. To achieve this they have found a way to distribute the radios/antenna at the end of Ethernet cable runs of up to 200 meters. An access point can support up to 32 distributed radio/antenna points creating a continuous blanket of coverage. A blanket of coverage with guarantees; a guarantee on the air rate of the wireless access and a guarantee of data transfer back to the network. Things that the other managed WLAN systems cannot guarantee because the placement of their access points and the physical LAN sit outside their control, so you see, size does really matter.

This big access point system also allows you to have up to 4 radios on each of the distributed radios/antenna points. So you can broadcast networks on all three of the 2.4GHz channels and the 5GHz channel at the same time, giving you 4 blanket wireless networks from one big access point, instead of the one network from traditional systems. This is because the available frequency in traditional systems is essentially eaten up or wasted as a management overhead.

Like traditional managed wireless, the Extricom access points can be managed across larger sites, or entirely geographically separate sites, providing full scalability. Also, for those with service continuity priorities, redundancy can be built in with Extricom’s cascade switch technology.

The very nature of the big access point system means that it is impossible to spoof access points into the network, and they are very simple to detect, as Extricom is simple looking for interference. If you try to intercept network traffic on the Extricom Ethernet, you would get a nasty surprise, as it is hardware solution not IP based network traffic.

If you were looking to enable your LAN as a WLAN, would you like to massively increase your number of network access points, or would you like to add a few robust, redundant, guaranteed, managed devices, with all the security hardware securely locked away in a cabinet?