Key contact: Bruce Burke, director of network engineering
Key vendors: Airespace, Cisco, HP
Key metrics: 12 Airespace APs, 2 Airespace 4000 switches, 80 users
Pacific Exchange (PCX) is a San Francisco-based market where investors meet to buy and sell options on more than 1,100 stocks. PCX began deploying wireless to facilitate its trading applications in the 1990s using Proxim's RangeLAN technology. Newer applications dictated a higher-performance system, and after struggling with an ill-fated upgrade to Proxim's 802.11a Harmony system, PCX took another look at available product offerings and chose Airespace in the fall of 2003. Now in full production, PCX has deployed 10 Airespace APs across two switches. What impressed PCX most about Airespace was its ability to provide a centrally managed system capable of meeting high-bandwidth, high-density application requirements. Burke says the ability to tune the RF environment in a very granular manner is a compelling advantage, and though PCX has encountered a few glitches during deployment, he reports that Airespace has been very responsive to his needs.
Organization: Port of Seattle with Tideworks Technology
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