Formed in June 2004, Ruckus Wireless is a wireless equipment supplier focused on the next generation of home networking.

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Common for all products from Ruckus is that they are developed to handle Triple Play, i.e. Data, Telephony and TV. This makes Ruckus unique.

Pricewise they are positioned on a level for consumers who needs better quality products and for the small-medium business who needs better quality products but are not willing to pay for lots of functionality they don't need.

The product portfolio contaisn three different family pf products: ZoneFlex, MediaFlex and MetroFlex. Common for these three is the very efficient antenna technology; BeamFlex and InTUne for wireless service management.

BeamFlex:

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antennaBeamflex is a MIMO smart antenna system. BeamFlex enables client devices to communicate over longer distances at higher speeds than consumer-grade 802.11 products - delivering unprecedented reliability and diversity.

With BeamFlex, the access point is able to reconfigure itself in realtime, detecting and adjusting for both spectral and multi-path interference as well as neighboring network noise. By selecting the optimum antenna pattern for each receiving device, BeamFlex enables extended Wi-Fi range and higher communications speeds. The massive diversity of the BeamFlex antenna systems allows the Ruckus MediaFlex NG to find and instantly select from many quality signal paths in a changing environment. This provides the stability and sustained baseline performance essential for voice and video applications.

SmartCast combines innovative multicast traffic handling techniques, smart QoS and application-aware traffic classification capabilities to ensure the highest reliability for all transmissions over Wi-Fi.

SmartCast:

SmartCast differentiates and manages multicast video frames separately from all other traffic types. This provide a robust wireless transport for IPTV streams from the broadband gateway to the set top box. SmartCast detects a receiver tuning to an IPTV channel and then directs the associated multicast video packets to each receiver using the optimum data rate and signal path for that receiver. This ensures the best performance possible while enabling reliable delivery of IPTV packets.

InTune
InTune is an innovative wireless service management technology that provides access to vital statistics, performance and RF information necessary to manage triple play services. InTune uniquely provides the ability to perform inventory audits for all the devices within the home wireless environment. Multi-tiered user and provider management domains delivers complete customization and the utmost flexibility. In-Tune also provides remote execution of diagnostics from within the home. InTune provides two distinctive management views for every device. The service provider view delivers detailed information on logging, statistics, quality of service, status of the device for the IPTV streams delivered to the household. The home user view provides simple to use, Web management for configuring basic wireless data networking for home PC’s.

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For small and medium businesses and hot zone operators.

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For operators who offers wireless tripple play
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MediaFlex 2200»

For wireless broadband operators

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