Everybody Wins – Collectively Connected
Remember when you travelled for business and were lucky if you got to stay in a hotel that had good cable, much less, Wi-Fi? Times have changed, and that’s no exaggeration. In today’s hotels, the Wi-Fi is free and much faster.Can Constraints Drive Innovation?
By: Oren Binder, Director – Service Provider Marketing Demand for mobile connectivity is growing rapidly, and the required wireless spectrum is a finite resource. In 2015, the FCC took a groundbreaking new approach to spectrum allocation, establishing the new Citizens...There’s a New Cloud in Town
With so many schools that have limited IT staff and low budgets, administrators are looking at the new Ruckus Cloud for their solution.Ruckus Cloud Wi-Fi Opens The Door To New Customer Applications
In just a short time, Cloud Wi-Fi has enabled customers to take advantage of new applications and experiences beyond what they thought were possible. The journey has just begun…Wi-Fi and Cloud: A Pairing Worth the Wait, Like a Great Wine
By: Dan Rabinobitsj, COO Remember Orson Welles quoting Paul Masson in the famous commercial? “We will sell no wine before it is time.” It is such a great line. If only he hadn’t crashed and burned later! But the notion...K-12 Wi-Fi: One AP Per Classroom, Is It Necessary?
By: Phal Nanda, Director Product Line Management Is it even recommended? Better Wi-Fi depends on some key elements (1) static factors such as coverage area, materials used for constructions, and planning, (2) known dynamic factors such as typical devices per...Ms. Lo Goes to Washington
By: Laurie Falconer, Director of Integrated Communications On Friday, Ruckus Wireless Business Unit CEO Selina Lo was in Washington, D.C. speaking alongside White House administrators and industry leaders at an event marking the launch of the Advanced Wireless Industry Consortium,...Having Trouble Keeping Up with the Pokémon Go Ruckus Without Wi-Fi? We’ve Got You Covered.
Pokémon Goers -- need Wi-Fi because not everyone has unlimited data plans...The Theory of Wi-Fi Evolution and IEEE 802.11 Selection
The Theory of Wi-Fi Evolution and IEEE 802.11 Selection: Over 25 years, Wi-Fi has ascended from a technology that enabled computers to wirelessly transfer data at 2 Mbps to winning a spot in Maslow’s pyramid as the most basic human need.Cities Get Super with Ruckus
By: Wendy Stanton, Marketing Manager What happened to the days of pay phone booths where Superman used to change his clothes, manual cash registers with the comforting “brrrring!” and parking lots where employees collected cash instead of automated pay machines?...Delivering a Seamless Guest Experience
Author: Diana Shtil, Product Marketing Manager The Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition and Conference (HITEC) 2016 took place in New Orleans last week, bringing together over 300 companies who all specialize in products, services, and solutions for the hospitality industry. From...Insight and Control: Solving the ‘Wi-Fi Everywhere’ Problem
Dean Tait, Global Strategic Partners Director Since the first networks were invented, and even up until now, systems administrators needed insight to identify when things went wrong and control to make it right. It’s a known fact that the reason...Expanding the Options for Wave 2
By: Richard Watson, Product Marketing Manager 802.11ac has promised us a lot: faster data rates, more efficient use of RF spectra and transmission to multiple clients in the same instance. Now, 802.11ac’s full promise has come in the Wave 2...Just Like Yoga… WLAN Flexibility is Good
By: Richard Watson, Product Marketing Manager Would you like to make your network provisioning and management simpler? How do you feel about going against common convention? Like yoga for healthy living, a flexible strategy for the WLAN can be healthy...An Apple for the Teacher; Wi-Fi for All
By: Richard Nedwich, Global Director of Education As a nod to Teacher Appreciation Week, a quick shout out to our 'Ruckus Teachers' who do an unbelievable job every day teaching their students the 3 Rs, the 4 Cs, and to...Creating a Pure Play Networking Company for the Digital Transformation Era
Today Brocade and Ruckus Wireless have taken an important step toward our joint vision of creating a new type of networking company - a company with the strategy, products, talent, and focus needed to deliver the solutions that customers need in order to thrive in today’s era of digital transformation. We’re very excited to let you know that this morning we announced Brocade’s intention to acquire Ruckus, a pioneer in the wireless infrastructure market.
The combination of Brocade and Ruckus will create a pure-play networking company that has market-leading solutions spanning from the most critical part of the data center to the wireless network edge. Wireless technology is a critical element in modern, New IP network architectures. Ruckus’ wireless networking solutions will add a high-growth and highly complementary product category to Brocade’s current storage, data center, campus and mobility networking solutions. The combined company will be better positioned to deliver networks that are platforms for innovation for our customers.
The new company will start with an impressive leadership position in highly strategic areas that we plan to build from:
- #1 in storage area networking
- #1 in service provider Wi-Fi
- #1 in hospitality Wi-Fi
- #2 in data center networking
- #3 in Continue reading
It’s More than Just IoT Security, it’s Security at Scale
By: Abhi Maras, Cloudpath Product Line Manager According to IDC, the global market for Internet of Things (IoT) is projected to reach $7.1 trillion by 2020, and the number of IoT devices is projected to grow from 13 to 30...Survey says… Teachers Say Wi-Fi Woes Still found in American K-12 Schools
By: Richard Nedwich, Global Director of Education There has never been more Wi-Fi in schools than there is today. So are teachers feeling empowered or hindered by Wi-Fi in their classrooms? That’s the question a new survey from EdWeek, sponsored...Shared Spectrum: Now How is THIS Going to Work?
By: Juan Santiago, Director of Product Management In my last post we discussed how shared spectrum is a fundamental new enabler for in-building cellular. We also introduced Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS), the U.S. shared spectrum scheme that became Part...How Shared Spectrum Can Improve In-Building Cellular
By: Juan Santiago, Director of Product Management
You’ve been there before: You popped into a store and wanted to look something up on your smartphone while waiting in line. However, the cell signal shows just one lousy bar. You consider logging on to Wi-Fi but there are multiple inconvenient steps that aren’t worth the hassle while you’re waiting in line. Nope, you’ll just wait to go back outside and go somewhere else next time.
Why can’t Wi-Fi be as simple as pulling the phone out of your pocket, like cellular? Or, better yet, why can’t cellular just be everywhere Wi-Fi is, including deep inside buildings? The answer lies in a little-known fact about cellular: Your phone company owns the right to use the cellular airwaves everywhere, even if, as in the example above, it’s not actually using them where you happen to be.
You may think that the store, realizing that you may never come back, would be willing to spend a little cash for better cell service, but it can’t. The store doesn’t own the right to use the airwaves inside its walls, thus it must work with each phone company individually to convince them to install a Continue reading