Ruckus

Ruckus Wireless designs, manufactures and markets advanced Smart Wi-Fi systems for mid to large Enterprises (corporate, retail, hospitality, education, healthcare, etc), HotSpots/HotZones and Wireless Broadband Access.

Most recently named a "Technology Pioneer" by the World Economic Forum, Ruckus Wireless is widely recognized for its technical innovation. The Company is credited with developing the industry's first "Smart Wi-Fi" technology that automatically avoids interference, extends signal range and dynamically adapts to the changing Wi-Fi environment.

Amongst a myriad of other critical acclaim, in March 2010 Ruckus Wireless was named by the Gartner Group as the fastest growing Wireless LAN supplier in 2009. In December 2010, Ruckus announced that it showed the largest growth of any enterprise wireless LAN (WLAN) supplier in the market for the second consecutive quarter with 95% growth in unit shipments over the same quarter for the year prior, according to a new wireless LAN report by Gartner. Also in December of 2010, Ruckus garnered the top market share position in unit shipments of outdoor wireless mesh systems to service providers around the globe for the third straight quarter, according to a separate report published by the Dell'Oro Group.

Ruckus Wireless multimedia products broke new ground by solving the problem of how to reliably transmit delay-sensitive traffic such VoIP and IPTV over standard 802.11a/b/g/n technology. The Company's product lines are:

• ZoneFlex™ Enterprise Wireless LAN (WLAN) system
• MediaFlex™ Wireless multimedia system and CPE
• Point to MultiPoint Bridge
• FlexMaster EMS (Network Operations Centre remote management system)
• ZoneSwitch (24 port Gigabit L2 switch)
• ZonePlanner (Off-site RF planning tool)

Its flagship product line 'ZoneFlex' is the only WLAN system that combines advanced beam steering, QoS and wireless meshing technologies into a single powerful and affordable system. The Company is also recognized for developing the first Wi-Fi device that supports streaming multicast IPTV as well as the first high-gain Wi-Fi Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) that enables robust indoor connectivity to outdoor Wi-Fi networks.

One of the key ZoneFlex value propositions is that all features such as BeamFlex, SmartCast, SmartMesh, Dynamic-PSK, Multimedia Support, Security and Authentication services, Guest access etc. require no additional licenses, modules or hardware for the ZoneDirector Controller and ZoneFlex Access Points.