Ruckus Wireless

Ruckus Wireless is a global Wi-Fi technology pioneer focused on building the next generation of Smart Wireless LAN systems. The company manufactures and markets Smart Wi-Fi products directly to broadband services providers and Smart WLAN systems indirectly to enterprise customers. Named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, Ruckus Wireless is credited with developing the first Smart Wi-Fi products and technology that extend the range of Wi-Fi signals and automatically adapt to environmental changes. Its customers include large telecommunication service providers such as Verizon, AT&T, Time Warner Cable, Deutsche Telekom, and China Telecom. Ruckus Wireless was founded in 2004 by William Kish and Victor Shtrom and is based in Sunnyvale, California.^[1]

Technology

Ruckus manufactures a suite of Wi-Fi Certified high-performance 802.11n indoor and outdoor access points that are marketed under the ZoneFlex™ product name and can support up to 500 simultaneous connections on a single node. Its WLAN controllers are marketed under the ZoneDirector™ product name and can support up to 1,000 access points on a single appliance. FlexMaster™ is a software manager of networks that allows for a user to control multiple WLAN sites from a single interface.

BeamFlex™

Ruckus Wireless has patented a specially designed dynamic RF propagating antenna system under the control of software algorithms that are featured in their access point technology. These algorithms implement an application-aware, cross-layer optimization engine - responsible for adapting numerous performance-critical, low-level system parameters in real-time response to changing environmental conditions. The result is a wireless system capable of reliable video and voice transport in far more hostile environments than was ever possible. These smart Wi-Fi techniques, antennas, and algorithms are inherently physical-layer independent and so are well prepared to harness the significant new frontiers of adaptation possibilities that the much anticipated 802.11n standard affords.^{[citation needed]}

Notable projects

Tikona Digital Networks has built the world's largest self-organizing outdoor Wi-Fi mesh network, comprising over 40,000 Ruckus ZoneFlex™ access points. Tikona's Smart Wi-Fi network is being used to offer tiered broadband services over Wi-Fi to hundreds of thousands of residential and commercial subscribers across more than 30 cities in India.

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