School Districts Move Quickly to Smarter 802.11n Wi-Fi From Ruckus Wireless for Higher Speeds at Lower Cost

Market Wire, October, 2008

Ruckus Wireless(TM) today announced that it has been selected by fourteen school districts across the country -- including Santa Clara Unified School District (SCUSD), Schenectady Public Schools, Tonasket School District and Holland Christian Public Schools -- to supply state-of-the art Smart wireless LAN (WLAN) systems based on the emerging 802.11n high-speed wireless standard.

In addition, Ruckus Wireless unveiled its "Smarter Wi-Fi for Education" matching donation program that provides one free Ruckus ZoneFlex(TM) 802.11n wireless access point (AP) for each one purchased (terms and conditions apply).

"Nowhere is reliable and higher speed Wi-Fi needed more than within the education market where the environment is fluid, information is rich and demands for consistent connectivity have skyrocketed," said Mary Phillips, director of technology at SCUSD. "As a school district, we wanted a unified wireless infrastructure that was flexible and didn't lock us into any particular architecture."

The Ruckus ZoneFlex 802.11n system is ideal for affordable next generation WLAN deployments because it provides a collection of unique capabilities not found in any other WLAN solution such as:

--  Smart Mesh networking that allows school districts to extend and
    provide Wi-Fi connectivity to areas (such as temporary classrooms) where
    Ethernet cabling doesn't exist,
--  Smart antenna and adaptive RF routing technology that provides long-
    range signals that are automatically steered around interference and
    obstacles -- letting districts deploy fewer APs,
--  Flexible deployment options that give school districts the ability to
    deploy APs in standalone mode, lightweight mode or meshed but all managed
    as a unified WLAN system,
--  Advanced remote WLAN management that gives school districts complete
    visibility into and control over discrete school WLANs and access points
    (meshed and non-mesh) over any IP infrastructure,
--  Distributed forwarding architecture that allows remote APs to be
    managed by a centralized controller at the district office over a high-
    speed Ethernet WAN, saving bandwidth and simplifying infrastructure
    topology.
    

This is a partial excerpt of the full Ruckus Wireless press release that can be found in its entirety at www.ruckuswireless.com/press/ (no registration required).

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