Interview with John DiGiovanni (Director of Marketing, Xirrus)

Wireless networking products have moved from a "fat" model to the "thin" model, which has most of the network intelligence in a central switching unit. Xirrus, supplier of the wireless networking gear at Interop 2007, has moved to the fattest-AP model, with network transport and management intelligence housed in an access point with as many as 16 separate radios. In this on-site Interop podcast we talk with John DiGiovanni, director of marketing at Xirrus, about the company's engineering philosophy and how it allows them to provide full wireless coverage to a large trade show and conference with a bare handful of (very large) access points.