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Ruckus
Ruckus

Using Smart Wi-Fi To Do More For Less.


With our high-octane wireless solutions, enterprises across a variety of industries are gaining stronger performance, more reliable connectivity, and eye-popping cost-savings.

 


Which is hardly surprising.

After all, when you build a Wi-Fi system that actually works the way it’s supposed to, organizations of all types can benefit. And enterprise users can gain everything they expect from wireless – except dropped connections, pixelated video, choppy voice, and erratic performance.

  • Enterprise WLANs Robust, secure, scalable and reliable centrally- managed WLANs that fit within any existing network architecture.

  • SME/Branch Office Simpler and more reliable WLANs that deploy faster, cost less, improve performance — and can actually be installed by you.

  • Hospitality: See how Smart Wi-Fi delivers reliable high-speed connectivity that guests will gladly check in for.

  • Education: Learn how schools and districts are getting better coverage with fewer access points and less Ethernet cabling.

  • Healthcare: Discover how our solutions connect clinicians to information and people, to improve the quality of care.

  • Retail: Research how companies leverage better Wi-Fi technology to make their operations more efficient and to increase the satisfaction of the customers.

  • Warehousing: Find out how companies are getting Wi-Fi to function in the rugged remote reaches of their warehouses.

 


Products: Carrier Class, Enterprise Enabled.

Fully-loaded, fully-capable, and fully-standard, our Smart Wi-Fi products and patented technologies offer unmatched simplicity, ridiculous reliability, and killer coverage — at a fraction of the cost of alternatives.

Our industrial-strength Smart Wireless LAN products for enterprise systems eliminate cost and complexity, while delivering unprecedented performance and reliability.

Indoor, outdoor, meshed, video, voice, data, 802.11n, 802.11a, 802.11g—take your pick. Everything you need is uniformly managed as a single, centralized Wireless LAN with ZoneDirector. Or you can manage thousands of standalone APs or ZoneFlex wireless LANs remotely with FlexMaster.

And our Smart Wi-Fi products support even the most rigid, latency-sensitive applications—offering carrier-level quality and ironclad security to enterprises and service providers everywhere.

  • Indoor APs Smart WLAN 802.11 systems for large-scale indoor deployments.

  • Outdoor APs Smart WLAN 802.11 systems for outdoor deployments.

  • ControllersZoneDirector Smart WLAN controllers with advanced Smart/OS software capabilities.

  • FlexMaster A sophisticated remote platform for managing thousands of Smart Wi-Fi access points or Smart Wireless LAN systems.

  • ZonePlannerZonePlanner is ideal for designing and estimating Wi-Fi deployment.

 


TechTalk: The Smarter Things We Do to Make Wi-Fi Better.

As a wireless innovator, we hear a lot of gripes about Wi-Fi technology. The single biggest complaint, bar none, is that wireless signals just don't reach where they should. And even when they do, they're flaky.

Our patented Smart Wi-Fi technology is a solution to this problem – once and for all.

Smart Wi-Fi is actually a collection of technologies, all designed to extend the range and reliability of wireless signals. These technologies eliminate
much of the cost and complexity of conventional wireless LAN (WLAN) deployments.

Our Smart Wi-Fi includes recent technical advances in beam steering, beam forming, adaptive signal path selection, quality of service, traffic classification, and fancy RF routing.

 


Very cool stuff with more to come.

  • BeamFlex A sophisticated smart antenna system that combines a multi-element antenna array and best path selection algorithms, to continually find the ideal route for a Wi-Fi signal to a given client at any time.
  • SmartCast An advanced traffic engineering and quality of service system that classifies, prioritizes, and queues traffic, to ensure high-quality transmissions.
  • SmartSec A collection of advanced security mechanisms, including the ability to dynamically generate pre-shared keys, plus role-based user access, wireless client isolation, and wireless intrusion detection.
  • SmartMesh A state-of-the-art RF routing system that provides the ability to construct an adaptive, resilient, reliable high-speed wireless mesh network.
  • 802.11n How Ruckus Wireless raises the standard for Wi-Fi delivery.
  • Technology FAQ Learn more about the technology.

 


Stressful Wi-Fi

What will most likely become the benchmark for Wi-Fi testing, WLAN Professionals has released a 68 page Wi-Fi stress test report pitting 16 different access points against the Wi-Fi elements. Unlike many Wi-Fi tests, WLAN Pros sought to find where today's industry-leading Wi-Fi solutions break.

The testing was utterly independent with vendors not allowed to provide any funding, equipment or test bed influence.

The purpose of the testing was to take access points to their limits. In that goal WLAN Pros succeeded in spectacular fashion.Not a single Access Point was able to support more than 25 iPads streaming video at the same time, let alone with FTP data transfers going on simultaneously.

The second goal was to see if access points  many of which share the very same Wi-FI Chipsets  performed differently, or were they all fairly much the same. Again, this test was able to spread the field and show some major differences between different vendor access points.

Ultimately the Wi-Fi APs that achieved the best results were those that used the RF Spectrum as efficiently – getting devices on and off the network as fast as possible. Faster average data rates usually won the day less time to transmit the same number of frames.