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Brocade to Acquire Ruckus Wireless to Build a Networking Company for the Digital Transformation Era
Enhances Brocade's position as a pure-play networking company, addressing critical networking requirements from the data center to the wireless network edge
- Combined company expected to be #1 in storage area networking, #1 in service provider Wi-Fi, #2 in data center networking, #3 in enterprise wireless LAN, and #3 in enterprise edge networking in the U.S. and EMEA
- Transaction expected to be accretive to Brocade's non-GAAP earnings by Q1 FY17
- Brocade increases stock repurchase authorization by $800 million
PR Newswire Ruckus Wireless; Brocade
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SAN JOSE, Calif., April 4, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Brocade (BRCD) and Ruckus Wireless (RKUS) today announced that Brocade has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Ruckus Wireless, Inc. in a cash and stock transaction. The acquisition will complement Brocade's enterprise networking portfolio, adding Ruckus' higher-growth, wireless products to Brocade's market-leading networking solutions. It will also significantly strengthen Brocade's strategic presence in the broader service provider space, with Ruckus' market-leading Wi-Fi position. Brocade expects the transaction to be accretive to its non-GAAP earnings by its first quarter of fiscal 2017. The Ruckus organization will be led by current Ruckus CEO, Selina Lo, and report directly to Brocade CEO, Lloyd Carney.
Ameriprise Financial Inc. Acquires 427,726 Shares of Ruckus Wireless Inc (RKUS)
Posted by Shayan Afkhami on Mar 27th
Ameriprise Financial Inc. boosted its position in shares of Ruckus Wireless Inc (NASDAQ:RKUS) by 54.9% during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The fund owned 1,206,926 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 427,726 shares during the period. Ameriprise Financial Inc.’s holdings in Ruckus Wireless were worth $12,926,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
http://www.mideasttime.com/ameriprise-financial-inc-acquires-427726-shares-of-ruckus-wireless-inc-rkus/840472/
Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi deployed in over 1,500 maternity and children hospitals across China
Zafirah Salim | Nov. 24, 2015
Ruckus Wireless has partnered with BBLink (Shanghai) Information & Technology Co. Ltd to deploy Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi in over 1,500 maternity and children hospitals across China, including Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital and Henan Provincial Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital.
BBLink is looking at collaborating with Ruckus to deploy an additional 10,000 units of Ruckus ZoneFlex indoor APs to expand the coverage of its Smart Wi-Fi network to around 2,000 maternity and children's hospitals across China.
http://www.mis-asia.com/tech/networking/ruckus-smart-wi-fi-deployed-in-over-1500-maternity-and-children-hospitals-across-china/
Network Computing article on today's Cloudpath news:
"As a latecomer to the enterprise 11n market when it was in its heyday, Ruckus no doubt hopes to leverage Cloudpath’s customer base to sell more 802.11ac network gear as older 11n deployments come up for refresh. But the WLAN vendor has bigger aspirations with this acquisition.
Ruckus has long been a proponent of Hotspot 2.0, which could transform public WiFi by bringing enterprise-grade security to the masses, but getting mass buy-in hasn’t been easy. Ruckus has deep penetration in the carrier space, and by extension access to huge customer volume at a time when carriers are looking ever-harder at WiFi to augment their services. Add the proven and easy onboarding capabilities provided by Cloudpath, and Ruckus might just be in a position to facilitate wider adoption of Hotspot 2.0.
With Cloudpath, Ruckus also is acquiring a complete solution that's superior to the competition. It’s becoming fairly common for WLAN vendors to offer abbreviated versions of Cloudpath’s capabilities. I’ve taken a number of them to task for leaving out important features that Cloudpath provided early on, including options like toggling IPv6 support on or off, making sure device firewalls are on, and that system updates are set to automatic.
Beyond simple onboarding, Cloudpath provides basic, but critical, device management functions. In my experience, this provisioning sets clients with a common basic posture that leads to dramatically reduced trouble ticket counts and a known baseline to troubleshoot from."
http://www.networkcomputing.com/wireless-infrastructure/ruckus-buys-wifi-onboarding-specialist-cloudpath-/a/d-id/1322796
Ruckus Showcases Future of Public Wi-Fi
19 minutes ago - DJNF
Wi-Fi Innovator Delivers Next-Generation Hotspot Experience at WBA Wi-Fi Global Congress Event in San Jose and Wins Two Awards
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --(WBA WI-FI GLOBAL CONGRESS) -- Ruckus Wireless (NYSE: RKUS) today announced that it has worked with the City of San Jose and San Jose Marriott to deploy a HotSpot 2.0 network for the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) Wi-Fi Global Congress event, taking place this week at the San Jose Convention Center. The new technology enables automatic and secure Wi-Fi roaming onto participating Wi-Fi hotspots for subscribers from more than 30 operators around the world. Using the venue-provided Wi-Fi, attendees can get seamless connections as they move from the convention center and hotel to downtown restaurants and even the San Jose airport.
This first-of-its-kind deployment features collaboration across a local city government, a major international airport and global hospitality leader -- offering a glimpse of the future as HotSpot 2.0 technology continues to roll out across all geographies. By enabling HotSpot 2.0, the existing networks deployed by the City of San Jose and the San Jose Marriott now support roaming with dozens of major service providers. When attendees step off a plane, go to a downtown restaurant, relax in their room or attend a Wi-Fi Global Congress (#WGCSJ) session, HotSpot 2.0 will be there to transparently and securely connect them to the network.
"HotSpot 2.0 is the future of Public Wi-Fi. It elegantly solves the issues of connection frustration and lack of security inherent to legacy Public Wi-Fi," said Kash Shaikh, vice president of marketing and business development at Ruckus Wireless. "We thank the City of San Jose and San Jose Marriott for their partnership in demonstrating the potential applications and business opportunities with HotSpot 2.0. The implications for the hospitality industry are profound, both for their loyalty program members and also to support inbound roaming for operator partners."
With HotSpot 2.0, an identifier is used to match a client credential -- such as the cellular SIM card or a username/password pair -- with supported hotspots. When there is a match, the client device automatically connects and then uses the credential to authenticate and encrypt the airlink. This means users don't have to figure out which SSID to connect to, nor do they have to manually authenticate via a captive log-in page. In this way, HotSpot 2.0 makes the Public Wi-Fi connection experience similar to cellular -- and allows one seamless experience across Wi-Fi networks hosted by hundreds of different entities.
Wi-Fi Global Congress also hosted the 2015 WBA Industry Awards. Ruckus won two, for the Best Wi-Fi Enabled Consumer Electronics Device and/or Service for causing a Ruckus with HotSpot 2.0 Release 2, and the WBA Chairman Award -- Technology Partner Category. The awards were judged independently of the WBA by a panel of prominent experts. In addition to the two awards won, Ruckus was a finalist for three others, including Best High Density Wi-Fi Deployment in a Venue, Best Wi-Fi Deployment in a City or Public Area, Best Wi-Fi Device/Application.
Wi-Fi Global Congress runs Monday through Thursday at the San Jose Convention Center, and is hosted by the WBA. More than 500 operators, analysts, media and key influencers from around the world will attend. Speakers include Mayor of San Jose, Sam Liccardo; Ruckus SVP and GM of Emerging Technologies Steve Martin; senior representatives from AT&T, BT, Cisco, Sprint and iPass; and CIO-level representatives from San Francisco, San Jose and New York. This year's event also features the inaugural meeting of the Connected City Advisory Board, a body working to promote the development of connected cities -- including city and government representatives from New York, San Francisco, San Jose, Delhi and the Philippines, among others.
$RKUS ~ Interesting close. Looks like 62K shares bought after hours :)
$RKUS ~ nice hits and support here. New 52 wk high. Looking good here :)
Third quarter 2015 financial results on October 29, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time
With the partnership between Hewlett-Packard and Aruba I believe that in the future, Cisco or another big boy will gobble up Ruckus.
Yep, 5X normal daily volume. Good news and good things happening here. Looking forward to earnings beating all estimates and a readjusted PE ratio of high teens to mid twenties : ) Great long term investment.
Nice volume today.
"Ruckus Wireless Inc. (NYSE:RKUS) will replace Cyberonics in the S&P SmallCap 600 after the close of trading on Wednesday, October 7. "
Yesterdays news - another example of how Ruckus equipment is the best. They keep PRing their successes.
...The USS Midway needed a solid wireless system that was going to perform in a very unusual environment. Because of the way its legacy Wi-Fi system was designed, unless visitors were right next to an access point it was almost impossible to maintain a consistent connection as signals interfered with each other and bounced all over the metal floors and ceilings and walls.
"Once we installed the Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi technology, those challenges disappeared," said Gursky. "This opened the door for us to begin leveraging the Wi-Fi network as an electronic utility upon which we could build. Ruckus was the only system we found that was really designed with RF in mind to deliver the highest possible strength and coverage within the most difficult environments. Our use of the technology has completely validated this. We are now able to deliver fast, reliable Wi-Fi services where we just haven't had them before."
Every time I read about a new installation and read the comments of those who bought our products I'm proud to own this stock
The biggest negative is the insane P/E
Great things happening here. True gem and patience will be rewarded.
More good news. Ruckus technology once again tested to be the best choice.
SUNNYVALE, Calif. and GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Aug. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Ruckus Wireless, Inc. (NYSE: RKUS) announced today that Telconet, a leading Ecuadorian provider of telecommunication services, is deploying Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi products and technology across the country. With Ruckus, Telconet is providing wireless access to many municipalities in Ecuador, supporting thousands of concurrent users of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
Third Year in a Row - Ruckus Wireless Takes Top Marks in Prestigious CRN Annual Report Card (ARC) Survey of Value-Added Resellers
Up 14% finally see market respect. Hope it holds
Ruckus up 7.6% after Q2 sales beat, in-line guidance
Jul 29 2015, 16:43 ET | About: Ruckus Wireless (RKUS)
Aided by relatively low expectations, Ruckus (NYSE:RKUS) has risen to $11.10 AH following its Q2 revenue beat and in-line EPS. Q3 guidance is for revenue of $94M-$99M and EPS of $0.10-$0.13, in-line with a consensus of $95.6M and $0.12.
Top-line figures: Americas revenue rose 19.1% Y/Y, Asia-Pac 13%, and EMEA 4.3%. 12 new service provider and 4,200 enterprise end-customers were added, respectively bringing the total bases to 230+ and 56K+; Q1 adds respectively totaled 19 and 3,700. 802.11ac Wi-Fi systems accounted for 71% of access point sales, up from 49% in Q1.
Financials: Gross margin fell to 68.1% from 70% in Q1 and 68.3% a year ago. GAAP operating expenses rose 17% Y/Y to $60.5M. Ruckus ended Q2 with $212M in cash/short-term investments, and no debt.
SUNNYVALE and SAN LEANDRO, Calif., July 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Ruckus Wireless, Inc. (NYSE: RKUS) announced today that the City of San Leandro has selected, deployed and standardized a new, free outdoor Smart Wi-Fi service, which is the first of its kind in the Bay Area that is gigabit-capable, leveraging the new 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard. San Leandro becomes the eighth city within the San Francisco Bay Area to have selected Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi as the foundation for their public Wi-Fi network infrastructures. Other cities include San Jose, San Francisco, Mountain View, Hayward, Redwood City, San Mateo and Belmont, CA.
Smart WiFi Deployed in Downtown San Leandro, CA (Ruckus ZoneFlex T300 Series outdoor 802.11ac access point on light pole)
Able to support thousands of users at connection speeds ranging from 100 megabits per second up to one gigabit per second, San Leandro's new Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi network will initially provide free high-speed wireless Internet access within a four-block radius, including: all of Pelton Plaza and surrounding properties, The Village, Parrott Street (including the Farmers' Market), and parts of Juana Avenue and East 14th Street. Over time, San Leandro plans to build upon the initial installation and expand its free public Wi-Fi coverage to other surrounding areas, including the City-owned Marina Community Center on Wicks Boulevard.
The City of San Leandro launched this public/private partnership to help bring its Wi-Fi network to life. During the deployment over the past year, Ruckus and its integration partner, SmartWAVE Technologies, have been providing Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi equipment and ongoing technical and engineering support to the City's IT Department. This has resulted in the creation of one of the most cutting-edge, free public Wi-Fi services now available in the San Francisco Bay Area, at minimal cost to the City.
"In partnership with Ruckus and SmartWAVE, San Leandro has now delivered a world-class public Wi-Fi service that offers some of the fastest speeds available anywhere within the Bay Area, and we've made it available to the community," said San Leandro Mayor Pauline Russo Cutter. "Not only has Wi-Fi become an expected utility in this new digital age, it has become an essential tool for economic development for cities everywhere."
"The proliferation of Wi-Fi on all kinds of new smart mobile phones, tablets, sensors and Internet of Things devices is driving incredible new demands for faster and higher capacity Wi-Fi networks across this country and around the world," said Dan Rabinovitsj, Chief Operating Officer at Ruckus Wireless. "In today's connected world, access to the Internet should be considered an essential service, like water or electricity; and just like water and electricity, it should be available to everyone – regardless of circumstance."
San Leandro's new free public Wi-Fi service is powered by new Ruckus ZoneFlex™ T300 Series outdoor Smart Wi-Fi access points that integrate 802.11ac gigabit Wi-Fi technology, along with a patented adaptive directional antenna system that extends the distance and strength of signals to deliver higher data rates to more users trying to access the network at the same time. The Ruckus access points are connected via an extensive high-speed fiber optic network operated by Lit San Leandro.
The City of San Leandro, Ruckus and SmartWAVE will publicly launch the new free Wi-Fi Service at a ceremony in Farmer's Market in San Leandro at 6 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, July 29, 2015.
"1. The sales reported on this Form 4 were effected pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted by the Reporting Person on August 20, 2014."
The majority of Ruckus insider trades are pre-established. Those news sites never seem to mention that, though.
Just think how I feel about RKUS.I AM IN AT $24.69 ON 1000 shares.Maybe I can live long to get even
One of the most frustrating stocks of my life
Great news and price keeps dropping. Strange stock. Great products and happy customers. Weird.
Columbia Public Schools Standardizes on Ruckus for Gigabit WiFi in Nation's First District Wide 802.11ac Wave 2 Deployment
Schools Across the Country See Higher Speed Gigabit WiFi As Key to Staying Ahead of the Technology Curve as Client Performance, Density and Bandwidth Demands Explode
Read full report, once again we see Ruckus has the best solution.
Brazil's Public Universities Make the Smart Move to Better WiFi with Ruckus Wireless
Love how all news just keeps confirming how good Ruckus products perform. And they keep gaining new "satisfied" customers. Yet market PPS is not looking like it cares. Time will correct that IMO
PHILADELPHIA, June 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- ISTE 2015 CONFERENCE & EXPO (Booth 635) -- Ruckus Wireless, Inc. (NYSE: RKUS) announced today that its Smart WiFi products and technology have been selected and deployed across nearly one-third of all public (aka federal) universities in Brazil. Thousands of Ruckus ZoneFlex™ access points (APs) are being used for Ruckus Smart WiFi networks at these higher education institutions across Brazil to deliver high performance, reliable wireless connectivity to tens of thousands of students, faculty and staff.
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"The experience with Ruckus equipment was very positive, the deployment was easy and fast, and the quality and reach of the access points in the IFRN wireless network received many compliments from users," said Carlos Eduardo Gomes do Egito, IT analyst of the Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN). "We now have flexibility, control, signal stability, and high density per AP with Ruckus. We plan to expand our Ruckus wireless network to provide complete coverage in all of our campus environments."
The bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend sweeping through education markets around the world is changing the face of teaching and learning, as more students use their own devices both at home and in school. As is the case everywhere, reliable, consistent WiFi availability is becoming increasingly important for students and teachers in Brazil. Users need faster and more stable access to Internet-delivered coursework, e-books, video and other digital curriculum tools that enrich their educational experience.
In fact, the quality of the student computing experience has become an important decision-making factor for Brazilian students in selecting a university. In the TIC Educacao survey, 96 percent of teachers in Brazilian public schools use Internet resources to prepare their classes. The survey also identified that 71 percent of public schools in Brazil have WiFi, but the Internet connection is very slow and unreliable in 52 percent of these schools.
Educational institutions thus face the rapidly increasing challenge to deliver the WiFi density, connectivity and coverage required to adequately accommodate a growing population of sophisticated users, who are now armed with multiple WiFi-enabled mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
Ideally suited for high capacity higher education environments, Ruckus Smart WiFi technology provides the robust and reliable connections required to provide reliable and fast WiFi connectivity in classrooms, labs, dorms, and everywhere else on campus. For flexible deployment and centralized management, Ruckus ZoneDirector™ Smart wireless LAN (WLAN) controllers give universities in Brazil a variety of deployment options that allow simple, centralized and unified management for indoor and outdoor wired and meshed access points. Ruckus ZoneDirector controllers uniquely provide them with at-a-glance views of the number of different types of devices being used on their WiFi networks, as well as the ability to easily and effectively define user- or device-specific access policies to optimize network performance and keep user traffic secure.
Ruckus ZoneFlex access points integrate patented Ruckus BeamFlex+™ adaptive antenna technology that adapts to a mobile device's constantly changing orientation and location. BeamFlex+ can enhance the user experience by helping to ensure a consistent wireless signal. Without it, changing client device orientation can cause up to a 2.5x performance difference.
"Prior to Ruckus, we just didn't have a simple and comprehensive way to manage the wireless network, which demanded a great deal of work and maintenance," said Fabio Rogerio da Silva, chief of the Logic Network Department at the Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar). "Now with the Ruckus products and technology, we have great management capacity, enabling us to know the user demand by access point, divide the APs by groups, send SSIDs to different groups, authenticate users using the 802.1X protocol, and we can solve problems faster because, for example, when an access point is disconnected, the controller tells us immediately. We plan to expand our WiFi network with Ruckus Wireless equipment as we currently work with 802.11n equipment, and we would like in the future to adopt the 802.11ac standard."
Universities across Brazil that have standardized on Ruckus Smart WiFi network infrastructure include:
- Universidade Federal de Lavras
- Instituto Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
- Universidade Federal do Triangulo Mineiro
- Universidade Federal de Vicosa
- Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
- Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia
- Universidade Federal do Oeste da Bahia
- Universidade Federal da Bahia
- Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo
- Universidade Federal de de Sao Carlos
- Universidade Federal do Amapa
- Universidade Federal do Sul e Sudeste do Para
- Universidade Federal do Para
- Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco
- Universidade Federal de Campina Grande
- Universidade Federal de Sergipe
- Universidade Federal da Integracao Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira
- Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul
The lack of positive response to product and customer list growth surprises me. Personally I expect the co and the stock to do quite well.
you are right about the news and the stock down about 4 percent.
These small caps can bring big returns
Small-cap stocks have been on a roll but that doesn't mean there aren't still opportunities to make money, portfolio manager Chris Retzler said Tuesday.
Among the names he likes is Ruckus Wireless, which just announced an alliance with Juniper Networks. Also in the space, Hewlett-Packard recently announced it would buy Aruba Networks, which provides network access solution for mobile enterprise.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102782627
Sri Lanka Telcom news. Ruckus continues to gain market share.
Sri Lanka Telcom news. Rufus continental to gain market share.
Sri Lanka Telcom news. Rufus continental to gain market share.
Good news. I expect over time similar news of RKUS gaining market to continue. And it's PPS to reflect that growth. They have excellent products. GO RKUS.
Juniper partners with Ruckus in wake of HP-Aruba deal
Jun 23 2015, 10:54 ET | About: Juniper Networks (JNPR) | By: Eric Jhonsa, SA News Editor
Juniper (JNPR -0.1%) is partnering with carrier/enterprise Wi-Fi hardware and software vendor Ruckus (RKUS +0.7%) to offer enterprise, government, and education clients solutions that pair Juniper's EX Series Ethernet switches with Ruckus' ZoneFlex Wi-Fi access points and SmartZone Wi-Fi management software.
The companies also plan to integrate their security and hardware provisioning tools, and products that lower the number of logical network devices that need to be managed by IT admins.
The alliance comes shortly after HP (a Juniper Ethernet rival) acquired Ruckus rival Aruba Networks. Last year, Juniper announced a partnership with Aruba that bore a strong resemblance to the Ruckus deal. For now, Juniper says Aruba remains a partner.
Dan Ferguson, the CEO of a Juniper channel partner: "Juniper teaming with Ruckus says Juniper is moving away from the Aruba relationship ... Juniper needs to team up with somebody in the wireless space -- they can't go to market with a big hole in their portfolio." Mark Robinson, the president of another channel partner: "It solidifies what everyone was thinking, which was that the whole Juniper-Aruba [relationship] was not going anywhere ... Ruckus has always been perceived positively in the marketplace. I think they're an innovative company."
Yes but tell that to all the insiders who've dumped millions of dollars in stock...WTF?!
IMO this recovering from where it should not have gone to. Good company with GREAT products. Long term this is going to be an exceptional investment.
Nice move up on good vol.
What is the reason?
No news that I found.
News - looking good
Ruckus and The Cloud Provide a Smarter WiFi User Experience at American Express Community Stadium Tweet PrintAlert
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SUNNYVALE, Calif. and LONDON, June 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Ruckus Wireless, Inc. (NYSE: RKUS) and The Cloud, a Sky company, announced today that the American Express Community Stadium (The AMEX) is providing an exceptional interactive user experience with the successful deployment of a Ruckus Smart WiFi network. For football club fans, as well as attendees of other events held at The AMEX, the new network provides spectators access to free, high-performance WiFi throughout the entire stadium.
Located in Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex, England (UK), The AMEX is one of the most modern stadiums in the UK. Home to the Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club—the Seagulls, The AMEX seats approximately 35,000 people, hosting a variety of sporting events, concerts, conferences, and exhibitions. It has become one of the most popular meeting and events venues on the South Coast, regularly catering to conferences and some 23+ home soccer games a season. The AMEX will also host games during the upcoming 2015 Rugby World Cup.
Brighton & Hove Management Company - who manages The AMEX - made a strategic decision to expand WiFi connectivity beyond the corporate boxes and meeting venues to all areas of the stadium. The new Ruckus Smart WiFi network operated and managed for them by The Cloud is comprised of approximately 100 Ruckus ZoneFlex™ indoor and outdoor access points. It spans the Stadium's stands, bars, concourses and press areas, improving the match day experience by giving Seagulls fans the ability to browse the web, tweet, bet in-play and use the Seagull's new mobile app, which provides a live match score center, player profiles, exclusive manager and player interviews, and a range of other content. The new network has also helped streamline stadium operations using in-house apps, and augments expensive and often spotty 3G/4G cellular data service.
"Our fans want to get online–everything from catching up on scores to uploading videos from the stands. The ability to get online has become a big part of match day," said Paul Barber, CEO at Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club. "For us, mobile is a great way of bringing the fans closer to the action and there's an opportunity to expand on that in the future with competitions, games or other interactive tools. Having fast, free Internet across the ground is key to engaging with fans."
Experts in building high capacity WiFi public networks, The Cloud is one of Europe's biggest public WiFi providers, and the largest in the UK. It has worked on sporting projects similar to this at the home of English cricket (Lord's) and motor racing (Silverstone), and was aware of the challenges presented by these types of deployments, and how to solve them. The Cloud had very stringent design requirements for The AMEX to address different usage, mobility, density and concurrent connectivity scenarios. These ranged from being able to consistently deliver 2 Mbps of wireless capacity to each user in high density environments for HD video streaming, to supporting four devices per 10 square meters and the ability to connect 50 percent of all users during a full stadium event.
How Smart Stadium WiFi is Done
The Cloud needed to provide The AMEX with a complete, turnkey, high-speed, high capacity, secure, free WiFi service that could deliver ubiquitous, strong signal coverage both indoors and out. The Cloud also required flexible deployment options—both wired and mesh, support for 10,000+ concurrent client connections, rich analytics and robust centralized management. Ruckus Smart WiFi has delivered on all counts. "Exceptional stadium WiFi is predicated on explicit control of WiFi signals and a smarter approach to RF design," said Sami Susiaho, head of Edge Technologies for The Cloud. "With Ruckus, the results have been remarkable."
Ruckus-patented BeamFlex™ adaptive antenna technology has enabled The Cloud to consistently deliver WiFi signal strength of -65dB or better throughout AMEX Stadium. "With high density WiFi, conventional wisdom is that more APs are better," said Susiaho. "What's really needed is a smarter and well thought through approach to signal propagation, because you simply can't control what the client does. But with the right WiFi technology, you can control how the network interacts with clients to help ensure the best possible user experience."
The Cloud has installed over 80 Ruckus ZoneFlex outdoor access points (APs) to the roof superstructure near the Stadium's speakers, so as to ring the pitch space. Each AP has the capacity to service up to 200 users and designed to cover a block of 400 seats. As demand increases, the design gives The Cloud the ability to easily scale the network to support increased user engagement by simply adding more access points as, and when, required.
"We have worked extensively with Ruckus and have previously deployed some 40,000 APs all over Europe, so we know the quality and effectiveness of its technology," added Susiaho. "We tested a dozen access points from different vendors, and it was simply no contest—Ruckus was the only one that was up for the job."
Ruckus ZoneFlex carrier-class, outdoor access points are designed specifically to address high-density environments such as sports stadiums, where thousands of people are gathered together in close proximity. The access points at The AMEX are centrally managed using two Ruckus ZoneDirector™ 5000 controllers, with one located on each side of the Stadium, which provides easy and scalable network management for large-scale wireless environments like stadiums.
As part of managing The AMEX network, The Cloud is also utilizing the Ruckus SmartCell™ Insight (SCI) big data analytics platform. Ruckus SCI provides predictive analysis that The Cloud can use to determine future user behavior in order to stay ahead of data demand. In addition, The Cloud is able to quickly view and extract a myriad of important network performance data such as upstream and downstream traffic volumes by device and device type, RF channel capacity between APs and stations, access points with the greatest traffic volumes, and most importantly, the potential client throughputs.
Since deploying the Ruckus Smart WiFi infrastructure, The Cloud has reported that during a recent match they saw over 13,000 devices connect concurrently, consuming a staggering 600,000 minutes of online time and over 10,000 megabytes of data downloaded—more than twice the average match day use. "The network we've designed and deployed at The AMEX using Ruckus is a model for how to do WiFi right in high density environments. The RF design is spot on. It's exactly what we predicted it would be. That's the truth. I love the way this turned out," concluded Susiaho.
American Express Community Stadium adds to the growing, impressive list of Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi high-density stadium and arena deployments around the world, including: the 45,483-seat Angel Stadium of Anaheim, home to Major League Baseball's (MLB's) Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim; the 74,738-seat Estadio Jornalista Mario Filho in Rio de Janeiro, better known as the Maracana, the world-famous venue that hosted seven 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil matches last summer; three other 2014 FIFA World Cup venues in Brazil: Estadio Nacional de Brasilia, a 69,349-seat stadium in Brasilia; Arena Fonte Nova (aka Estadio Octavio Mangabeira), a 51,900-seat stadium in Salvador; and Arena Pantanal, a 41,112-seat multi-purpose stadium in Cuiaba, plus; Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Southern California; Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, NC; M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, a 70,000-seat facility in Chennai, India; Rio Tinto Stadium, a 25,000-seat venue in Salt Lake City, UT; Imtech Arena in Hamburg, Germany; and the 45,574-seat National Stadium (Estadio Nacional) of Lima, Peru, among many others.
Thanks for the post. Good to see Ruckus in the forefront trying to guide how things can be improved.
Ruckus sees WiFi offload role beyond handling peak traffic
8th June 2015
Mobile operators are looking to offload more of their increasing data traffic to WiFi because it can significantly lower capex. However, continually offloading to WiFi is not the answer to addressing their other major problem — flat ARPU, argued Steven Chung (pictured), Ruckus Wireless’ principal consultant for carrier WiFi in Asia Pacific, in an interview with Mobile World Live.
About 80 per cent of data traffic is now WiFi traffic, but both LTE and WiFi usage are expanding rapidly.
While it is difficult to predict how much data can be offloaded, Chung said he is certain the future of carrier WiFi and the ability to generate new revenue will not come from solving spikes in traffic, noting that the key drivers for an offload strategy should be service continuity and customer retention.
As the industry has already seen with so-called OTT messaging apps eroding the volume and value of SMS services, the same shift is now impacting voice services. Carriers are countering with their own WiFi calling services (e.g. T-Mobile, Sprint and EE) to provide the same services over both cellular and WiFi access networks.
“User experience and providing carrier-grade WiFi matter, especially for services such as voice. Offloading to a consumer CPE, without QoS built inside the access point, will inevitably lead to a loss of customers when using WiFi calling or VoWiFi is introduced,” he said.
Phase 2 deployments
As WiFi access becomes more ubiquitous, Ruckus is seeing city councils around the world add intelligence to existing WiFi networks and using the analytics to improve urban planning, Chung said.
“WFi connectivity is the DNA for building a smart city as it allows many different sensors to connect, collect and be analysed for the objective of building a sustainable city.”
For example, some city councils in Australia have asked Ruckus to convert WiFi networks into analytics sensors that are active 24/7.
Previously, he said the cities had to hire a contractor to estimate the number of people using council resources such as parks and community centres, which was tedious and expensive and only provided limited data.
He said Singapore’s government, in partnership with Singtel and Ruckus, has been able to obtain analytics of how long passengers wait for trains for insight into commuting patterns. The data is used to provide more efficient transportation services.
While smart cities has always been a concept for a single city, he said Ruckus’ vision is to build a “smarter global village” by enabling citywide roaming services globally based on Hotspot 2.0 as the first step and adding new intelligence to share data between the smart cities of the future.
Seamless experience
Looking ahead to improving the user experience by having seamless switching, he said, LTE/WLAN link aggregation (LWA) is a promising technology to enhance the LTE data experience using WiFi and unlicensed spectrum.
Ruckus is actively engaged with the 3GPP programme to standardise LWA, which is currently in the study item phase for Release 13.
He said LWA will require tight integration of the WiFi access point with the LTE base station (eNode-B), as well as some modifications to the WiFi airlink to tunnel LTE datagrams within the 802.11 frames.
“We are working closely with a number of technology partners on these required modifications. One of the principal advantages of LWA over other proposals like LTE-U and LAA-LTE is that coexistence with WiFi is achieved via a common physical and media access layer, which is much more straightforward than the coexistence mechanisms that will be needed to ensure that LTE-U/LAA coexist nicely with WiFi,” he said.
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Hopefully I bought at bottom. Long term this should be amazing. Although some patience will be required.
Well we went up 1.99%.Not to bad but we got to have a lot of days like this to get to the price I paid.....$24.69 yes that is right and I have been in a long time.
As always you never gain or loose until you sell....
Ruckus Wireless Inc (RKUS): When Ken Griffin Buys 5.4% of a Company, You Better Pay Attention
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Hopefully all the insiders have stopped dumping their stock lol
Just got in for the long haul. Ruckus is one busy company.
With Oxford Clubs recommendation I wanted to join the party and see where the future takes it. Looks very promising.
Sold near EOD. Ruckus' chart still looks great, but didn't want my money tied up with CSCO's Chambers typical outlook.
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Japan's Kansai International Airport Selects Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi
Largest Airport in Kansai Area to Provide Free Public Wi-Fi Service to 19 Million Users
TOKYO and SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
Ruckus Wireless, Inc. (NYSE:RKUS) announced today that Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi products and technology have been chosen by Kansai International Airport (KIX) to provide free public Wi-Fi service for international travelers. KIX has deployed over 100 Ruckus ZoneFlex™ dual-band indoor access points (APs), centrally managed using two Ruckus ZoneDirector™ 3000 Series Smart Wireless LAN (WLAN) controllers, to effectively cover high-density public areas throughout the airport where travelers gather. The new Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi network at KIX serves more than 50,000 travelers every day.
Situated on an artificial island in the middle of Osaka Bay, KIX connects Japan'sKansai area to the world. It handled more than 140,000 planes and over 19 million travelers in 2013. Among three airports located in the Kansai area, only KIX has regular international flights, and thus is contributing to an overall increasing use of Japan's airports by international travelers.
Tablet and smartphone adoption in Japan have been undergoing explosive growth. Tablet ownership is expected to grow by 164 percent, from 7.13 million in 2013 to 11.7 million in 2016 (per ICT Research & Consulting data, 2014), and smartphone subscribership is expected to exceed 100 million in 2019 (per MM Research Institute data, 2014). Also, usage of Wi-Fi is growing as consumers are accessing more multi-media content, and as more applications are transitioning to the cloud.
Kansai International Airport first offered free public Wi-Fi service to travelers with autonomously managed Wi-Fi access points. Due to the explosive growth of mobile devices and travelers' increasing desire to be able to stay online everywhere, it soon became unable to keep up with demand. Also, the Airport found it difficult to monitor these legacy access points and usage. Therefore, they reached a conclusion that a new WLAN network infrastructure solution was an essential amenity for international aviation hubs like KIX in order to best serve its travelers. KIX began their new Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi network project in 2012, aimed at providing reliable, high-density connectivity in order to achieve a much better user experience terminal-wide.
When the selection process started in 2012, KIX and its partner were considering other vendors. As the selection process of several products moved forward, Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi showed its strength in performance tests. Patented technologies such as Ruckus BeamFlex™ adaptive antenna technology, embedded in Ruckus ZoneFlex access points, impressed KIX officials with its ability to provide superior connections, avoid radio frequency (RF) interference, and offer excellent coverage.
Additional Ruckus technologies such as ChannelFly™ dynamic channel management technology further enhance the user experience, leveraging patented principles from BeamFlex to learn and select the best radio frequency (RF) channel to provide the most throughput RF, based on capacity averages across all channels. The KIX Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi network helps to optimize WLAN performance by covering a wider area and providing more access.
The new, free public Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi service at Kansai International Airport covers all major public areas of the Airport, including arrival and departure halls, shopping areas, and boarding gates. Since its introduction, KIX's new Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi network connects up to 700-800 users at any given time of the day. Accessing the new network is simple, too. Upon connecting to the free Wi-Fi service in KIX, travelers are automatically directed to a service access portal. Travelers then just need to agree to the usage terms and conditions with a single click—no additional registration or entering a login name or password is required.
Mr. Hideyuki Moriike, Sub-Leader, System Support 2nd Group, System Service Department of KIA Information and Communications Network Co., Ltd. says, "Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi exceeded our expectations. It covers a much broader range and provides more connectivity to much more devices than the old Wi-Fi network. When comparing it with other vendors' offerings, Ruckus provided the same coverage and was able to connect more clients using up to 30 percent fewer access points. Ruckus client balancing capabilities can intelligently steer client devices to connect with other access points nearby, when access points reach a pre-defined capacity usage. This helps us to inject more capacity by adding more APs and spread the connecting clients across access points within range."
Currently, the new network is being used by airport users and visitors for free public Wi-Fi access. However, KIX is discussing plans to utilize it for airport staff use for various airport operations functions. For example, tablets are currently used at airport information centers and counters, and KIX is considering connecting these tablets to existing operational systems through the new network for more seamless internal operations, in addition to providing things like flight information to travelers.
Moriike concludes, "We are very satisfied with our wireless network, built using Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi."
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ABOUT RUCKUS WIRELESS
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, Ruckus Wireless, Inc. (NYSE:RKUS) is a global supplier of advanced wireless systems for the rapidly expanding mobile Internet infrastructure market. The company offers a wide range of indoor and outdoor "Smart Wi-Fi" products to mobile carriers, broadband service providers, and corporate enterprises, and has approximately 52,000 end-customers worldwide. Ruckus technology addresses Wi-Fi capacity and coverage challenges caused by the ever-increasing amount of traffic on wireless networks due to accelerated adoption of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Ruckus invented and has patented state-of-the-art wireless voice, video, and data technology innovations, such as adaptive antenna arrays that extend signal range, increase client data rates, and avoid interference, providing consistent and reliable distribution of delay-sensitive multimedia content and services over standard 802.11 Wi-Fi. For more information, visit http://www.ruckuswireless.com.
BeamFlex, ChannelFly, Ruckus, Ruckus Wireless, ZoneDirector, and ZoneFlex are trademarks of Ruckus Wireless, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other product or company names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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The SmartCell Gateway (SCG) 200 represents the first in a new category of scalable and versatile WLAN controllers with support for 3GPP compatible WLAN gateway functionality. It has been designed to eliminate the difficulties operators are experiencing with building and managing large-scale Wi-Fi RANs and integrating them into the mobile packet core. The latter is required for a truly scalable heterogeneous network (HetNet) deployment. Capabilities include:
The SCG-200 offers one of the industry's most scalable WLAN controller architectures, through a unique, dynamically scalable clustering model that maintains carrier-class availability and resiliency through N+1 redundancy and hot-swappable components. An SCG-200 cluster can support tens of thousands of Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi APs and hundreds of thousands of concurrent Wi-Fi subscribers, with an aggregate throughput of 20Gbps per 2RU's of rack space. The SCG's carrier-class element management system (EMS) can be integrated into an operator's central NMS via standard data exchange interfaces, providing feature-rich management of access points, such as RF management, load balancing, adaptive meshing and backhaul optimization.
The SCG 200 can provide Trusted WLAN Gateway functionality per 3GPP TS 23.402 (June 2012). Trusted WLAN Gateway functionality allows a Wi-Fi RAN to connect to a P-GW (or GGSN) in the mobile packet core over industry standard interfaces and using standard protocols like GTP and PMIP. This approach utilizes 802.1x/EAP for secure authentication and 802.11i for Wi-Fi airlink encryption. These protocols are supported on all smartphones, as they are required as part of the Wi-Fi Alliance's WPA2®-certification program. The SCG 200 can also directly interface with mobile packet core AAA or HLR/HSS systems for client authentication and policy setting.
The SCG 200 can also offload traffic directly to the Internet. This would usually be the case when the traffic is not SIM-based, and would not benefit from being backhauled to the mobile packet core. Examples here include tablets and laptops, which in most cases do not have cellular modems. Local breakout requires that selected services be performed at the SCG 200, most of which would normally be provided in the mobile packet core.
The SCG 200 provides an integrated carrier-class element management system (EMS) that can be used for rapid deployment and eliminates the need for separate and expensive management systems. The built-in EMS provides user-friendly full-fledged FCAPS support and can be easily integrated with existing OSS/BSS systems via a variety of interfaces ranging from traditional SNMP or CLI based interfaces to web programming friendly secure API based methods (RESTful JSON).
Site acquisition is always an issue when deploying small cells, and this is made much easier by integrating a small cell into a Wi-Fi access point as the latter is an operator neutral solution that is preferred by most site owners. The SC 8800 can also provide wireless backhaul using Wi-Fi technology in the 5 GHz band. Other capabilities include support for AC power, power-over-Ethernet, integrated GPS receiver, integrated spectrum analysis, BeamFlex adaptive antenna technology, and much more.
A key part of the Ruckus value proposition is our BeamFlex technology with integrated antennas, which steers RF energy toward the user that it is communicating with and away from all other AP's in close proximity. This increases the gain by as much as 6 dB and the interference mitigation by as much as 15 dB. The latter is essential in most high-density deployments where interference is almost always the limiting factor.
SmartCell 8800 access points can be centrally managed from the mobile packet core using the SmartCell Gateway 200, the industry's most scalable and versatile 3GPP compatible WLAN Gateway. The SCG 200 also supports capabilities like Hotspot 2.0 which will be essential in the rollout of carrier-class Wi-Fi solutions.
In the world of wireless LANs (WLANs), power and simplicity are like oil and water - they've just never mixed - until now.
Our Ruckus WLAN systems brings power and simplicity together for large-scale indoor deployments - along with all the requisite capabilities demanded:
What's more, Ruckus WLAN solutions combine one of the best centrally managed WLANs with jaw-dropping advances in intelligent RF routing and Smart Wi-Fi meshing. The result? One of the best WLAN products and technology that money can buy. Here are more bullets to mull over:
For enterprises and carriers requiring increased wireless performance, capacity, unparalleled ease of use and greater business value, particularly within high-density environments, the ZoneFlex 7982 is one of the most reliable and highest performing product in the industry. The ZoneFlex 7982 delivers consistent performance and maintains stable connections within high-capacity environments and to smart mobile devices that constantly change their location and orientation. The simple variation of a device's orientation can account for up to a 5x performance degradation among Wi-Fi products unable to adapt to such changes. To address these challenges, the ZoneFlex 7982 is the only three-stream 802.11n access point to combine dynamic polarization diversity with adaptive antenna arrays and transmit beamforming to give customers up to a 4x improvement in Wi-Fi performance, signal gain and reception.
Cost-minded small and medium enterprises now have a sleek and low-profile AP for delivering high-performance and reliable 802.11n wireless networking at the industry's most affordable price point relative to performance.
The ZoneFlex 7321 is capable of running on either 2.4GHz or 5GHz with a click of a button. Performance is enhance by up to 4dB with transmit beamforming capable clients. Performance is further enhanced by ChannelFly, Ruckus' unique channel selection approach that increases capacity by up to 50 percent over similar products from other vendors.
Now enterprise companies can easily and affordably build higher-speed 802.11n wireless networks that deliver wire-like reliability and consistent performance at range. The Ruckus ZoneFlex 7962 is the dual-band 802.11n enterprise-class AP that concurrently supports spatial multiplexing, automatic interference mitigation and adaptive antenna technology. The ZoneFlex 7962 delivers ultra-high speed, reliable and long-range client connectivity within challenging RF environments. It's also the only 802.11n product purpose-built for hotels, schools and enterprises that enables high-definition IPTV, video-on-demand and other video applications while supporting data applications for guests and employees.
Now cost-minded enterprises have a sleek and low-profile purpose-built AP for delivering high-performance and reliable 802.11n wireless networking at one of the industry's most affordable price point.
The ZoneFlex 7363 is a dual band product. Maximum 802.11n capacity, makes the ZoneFlex 7363 one of the industry's lowest cost, highest performing line of 802.11n mid-range access points available. The aesthetically-pleasing design is ideal for a variety of enterprise and hotspot environments including hotels, schools, retail outlets, branch offices and public venues.
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ZoneFlex 2942 offers features and functions not available in any low-end consumer access point (AP) or high-end wireless LAN (WLAN) system. Yet, surprisingly, it's one of the industry's most cost-effective 802.11g wireless solution. Go figure! It supports Smart Mesh Networking, to streamline complex deployment headaches and eliminate running Ethernet cabling to every access point. This cuts down on operational overhead, making it ideal for hotels, schools, airports, and enterprises everywhere.
The ZoneFlex 7025 integrates high speed 2.4GHz 802.11n Wi-Fi technology with wired Ethernet ports into an elegant, inconspicuous and low-profile wall jack that fits into an electrical junction box. It's ideal for offering multiple connections into hotel guest rooms and university dormitories without multiple cables. It delivers high performance Wi-Fi coverage and four wired Ethernet connections and an additional passthrough port for digital phones that requires native access to an in-house PBX system.
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