In-Home Connectivity Seen as the Key Issue to Success in Enabling One of the Largest Metro Wi-Fi Networks in the United States
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Ruckus Wireless today announced that it has been selected by US Internet to support the in-home connectivity requirements for one of the nation's largest metro Wi-Fi networks being built in Minneapolis.
In addition to Minneapolis, Ruckus Wireless is currently the exclusive or preferred supplier of customer premise metro equipment for a number of municipal Wi-Fi networks across the country including networks in Mountain View, CA; Portland, OR; Toronto, Waterloo, Ontario; Vail, CO and St. Louis Park, MN.
US Internet was selected in September 2006 by the city of Minneapolis to build and operate the 60-square-mile broadband wireless network. US Internet is standardizing on the Ruckus MetroFlex as the customer premise equipment (CPE) that will provide subscribers with reliable in-home broadband connectivity to the outdoor Wi-Fi network. The Minneapolis metro Wi-Fi network is being deployed and is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
According to US Internet, the in-home CPE was the single biggest issue in the design and development of the Minneapolis city network. "What we put in the home is key to the success or failure of this network," said Travis Carter, co-founder and VP of technology for US Internet. "You can have the best Wi-Fi radios on every light pole -- and we do -- but if users in their homes can't connect to them, who really cares?"
"It gets extremely cold in Minneapolis and people won't be on a park bench connecting to the network," Carter continued. "This means we needed long range and reliable Wi-Fi receivers in the home that could automatically deal with interference and Wi-Fi obstacles. The Ruckus MetroFlex was hands-down the best product in its class for this use case."
Carter noted that unlike other metro Wi-Fi deployments, US Internet uniquely approached its metro Wi-Fi architecture from the "inside out" instead of from the "outside in," focusing on subscriber connectivity first.
This is a partial excerpt of the full press Ruckus Wireless release that can be found in its entirety at www.ruckuswireless.com/press/ (no registration required).
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Ruckus Wireless
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Source: Ruckus Wireless, Inc.
CONTACT: David Callisch of Ruckus Wireless, +1-408-504-5487 mobile, or
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Web site: http://www.ruckuswireless.com/
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