Ruckus Wireless
"Smart Wi-Fi" products for corporate
enterprises, mobile operators, and broadband service
providers
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Ruckus Wireless is supplier of
advanced wireless systems for the mobile Internet working market.
The company markets and manufactures a wide range of indoor and
outdoor "Smart Wi-Fi" products for mobile operators, broadband
service providers and corporate enterprises around the world.
Ruckus invented, and has patented, state-of-the-art wireless
technology that steers Wi-Fi signals around obstacles and
interference. This unique capability extends signal range and
ensures consistent reliable distribution of delay-sensitive
multimedia content and services over standard 802.11 Wi-Fi. The
company has shipped over 2 million Smart Wi-Fi systems around the
world.
Ruckus Wireless has two distinct Smart Wi-Fi product lines:
ZoneFlex™ and MediaFlex.™ The company also offers FlexMaster™ for
managing these products remotely, using advanced capabilities for
control and administration of Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi APs and Smart WLAN
systems. All Ruckus Wireless products are completely
standards-based. The company's patented approach greatly
increases reliability and range using automatic interference
avoidance and real time selection of the best signal path for each
Wi-Fi transmission.
ZoneFlex for Enterprises
ZoneFlex, Ruckus' flagship line of indoor-outdoor wireless LAN
products, delivers the industry's first centrally-controlled Smart
WLAN system with support for dynamic beamforming. ZoneFlex fills a
market gap between high-end costly and complex WLAN switching
systems and cheap, low-end consumer-grade solutions.
ZoneFlex is a simple, yet feature-rich WLAN system designed
specifically for enterprises needing an easy-to-use Wi-Fi system
that is reliable and extensible. ZoneFlex uniquely combines
powerfulsmart antenna array technology, wireless
meshing and advanced security features at a low
total cost of ownership.
The ZoneFlex line includes high-density ZoneFlex 802.11a/b/g/n
Smart Wi-Fi APs and the ZoneDirector line of Smart LAN
controllers for managing from six to 500 APs. ZoneFlex
delivers complete security, reliable Wi-Fi performance, quality of
service, extended range, and unprecedented multimedia support.
Designed to be simple and easy to use, non-wireless experts can
install and operate ZoneFlex products quickly and easily to create
an industrial-strength, secure multimedia WLAN in a matter of
minutes. ZoneFlex is ideal for mobile operators looking to use
Wi-Fi to offload data traffic from their 3G networks and for
broadband operators building next generation wireless access
networks.
ZoneFlex for Mobile Operators
For broadband carriers and mobile operators, Ruckus has
developed a unique line of ZoneFlex indoor
and outdoor products that enable service providers to add
reliable Wi-Fi coverage and capacity quickly and at a fraction of
the cost of conventional alternatives.
Ruckus ZoneFlex for service providers is a comprehensive,
end-to-end Smart Wi-Fi system that includes
purpose-built customer premise equipment (CPE), 802.11a/b/g/n
wireless mesh access points, point-to-point and point-to-multipoint
Wi-Fi bridges and system-wide Wi-Fi management.
Combined, these products help operators to better monetize
explosive data traffic by offering services such as last-mile
Wi-Fi access, 3G offloading and
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FlexMaster for Remote Wi-Fi
Management
The FlexMaster Management System is the industry's
only complete management platform for building and managing
carrier-grade Wi-Fi service infrastructures.
FlexMaster lets any enterprise or service provider remotely
manage individual Ruckus MediaFlex or ZoneFlex APs as well as
entire ZoneFlex WLANs over any private, public or hybrid IP WAN.
With a simple click of the mouse, companies can upgrade all Ruckus
access points, ZoneDirector controllers or groups of devices.
Tiered administration provides customized views and controls.
FlexMaster lets companies create unique configuration parameters
on a bulk basis and load different versions of firmware for each
group of devices.