SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 26, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Ruckus
Wireless, Inc., now part of Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD), today announced
the general availability of Ruckus Cloud Wi-Fi, a wireless local
area network (WLAN) management-as-a-service offer powered by the
new Ruckus public cloud platform. Ruckus Cloud Wi-Fi enables
distributed organizations with limited IT resources to set up,
monitor and manage a high-performance multi-site WLAN of any size.
Featuring an intuitive, intent-driven user interface for managing
some of the industry's highest performing access points (APs),
network managers benefit from cloud simplicity without having to
compromise on Wi-Fi performance.
"Customers shouldn't have to sacrifice end user experience in
order to reap the benefits of the cloud," said Dan Rabinovitsj, chief operating officer, Ruckus
Wireless Business Unit, Brocade. "They also shouldn't have to be
locked into a single architecture—if they need to change, their APs
should change with them. With Ruckus Cloud Wi-Fi, customers don't
need to make these tradeoffs anymore. Using the Ruckus Cloud
platform, we will continue to introduce compelling as-a-service
offers that can include cloud-managed switching and cloud-managed
in-building LTE service based on OpenG™ technology. Customers could
have access to all of these services through the same intuitive
interface."
With the introduction of Cloud Wi-Fi, Ruckus Wireless now offers
the industry's broadest range of deployment options—public cloud,
data center or private cloud, hardware or virtual appliance, and
controller-less—making it a leader in WLAN architectural
flexibility. Ruckus partners will benefit by participating in the
fast-growing, cloud-managed WLAN market while simultaneously
addressing a broader set of deployment requirements. In the future,
the company plans to introduce Ruckus Cloud support for in-building
LTE service and Brocade® ICX® switches,
delivering an integrated platform simplifying the configuration,
monitoring and troubleshooting of both wired and wireless
networks.
"The WLAN market experienced substantial growth in the first
quarter of 2016, a trend that we expect to continue, in part due to
increased demand for the well-established benefits of cloud-managed
WLAN services," said Nolan Greene,
senior research analyst, network infrastructure at IDC. "Ruckus
Cloud Wi-Fi offers a simple-to-deploy, less time-intensive
alternative to on-premises controller architectures and will enable
even the most IT-constrained organizations to easily manage dozens
or even hundreds of sites."
Key Cloud Wi-Fi features and benefits include:
- Best-in-class Wi-Fi performance: Cloud Wi-Fi customers
use the same industry-leading APs that consistently outperform
competing products in third-party testing. With the ability to
excel in challenging user density, interference and physical
environments, customers can use fewer APs than competing vendors
would require. Alternatively, customers can use the same number of
APs to build a network that easily accommodates the growing
requirements for years to come.
- Intent-driven user interface (UI): The Cloud Wi-Fi UI is
designed to display only the data the user needs to accomplish a
task and the system automates tasks whenever possible. This
intuitive approach enables IT to spend less time managing and
status-checking the WLAN without the need for technical training or
certifications.
- An intuitive, full-featured mobile app: The Cloud Wi-Fi
mobile app allows IT managers to carry the network with them
wherever they are, get notified whenever the network needs
attention and make instant changes right from their pocket.
- Cloud-scale: The cloud-scale nature of the Ruckus Cloud
platform allows Cloud Wi-Fi customers to add APs and sites at will,
with no more effort required to add the thousandth AP or the
hundredth site than the first of either. Such scaling comes with no
increase in management complexity and a single user interface
provides visibility to the entire network, no matter how large or
distributed it may be.
- Analytics and reporting: The big data warehouse within
the Ruckus Cloud infrastructure allows for highly granular
reporting of up to six months of KPIs, ranging from low-level
per-radio airtime utilization to layer-7 application
visibility.
- AP investment protection: APs used in a Cloud Wi-Fi
deployment can be reused in any of Ruckus' other deployment
options, should circumstances demand.
A number of Ruckus customers have implemented Ruckus Cloud Wi-Fi
prior to the market introduction, and the results have been
positive. "We have approximately 4,500 students within our seven
schools across the district, and having Ruckus Cloud Wi-Fi is
important for a couple of reasons," said Aaron Souza, director of information technology,
Minooka School District. "We have a fairly tight budget when it
comes to personnel, so being able to manage our Wi-Fi from an
off-site location is a huge benefit to us. Not only that, but Cloud
Wi-Fi's simple deployment and ease of use saves us time so that we
can instead focus on important issues such as providing systems and
applications our students need for learning."
"We've been able to use Ruckus Cloud Wi-Fi with the added
assurance that the APs can be managed by any of the Ruckus
management architectures," said Curtis
McKay, network administrator, Belleville School District. "As a result, it's
been extremely helpful in managing the amount of devices both
students and staff bring into our schools on a daily basis, without
affecting performance or connectivity."
Ruckus Cloud Wi-Fi is available through Ruckus' global
distribution network. Visit the Ruckus website to learn
more.
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ABOUT RUCKUS WIRELESS
Ruckus Wireless, now part of
Brocade, delivers simply better wireless for approximately 70,000
enterprise, service provider, government, and small business
customers worldwide. The company is focused on technology
innovation, partner ecosystems and customer service—yielding the
best possible wireless experience for the most challenging indoor
and outdoor environments. Its Smart Wi-Fi platform
delivers scalable, high-performance Wi-Fi with simplified control
and management for on-premise and cloud-based Wi-Fi deployments,
along with new services for secure on-boarding, policy management,
location services, and analytics that enable new business
opportunities.
ABOUT BROCADE
Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) networking
solutions help the world's leading organizations turn their
networks into platforms for business innovation. With solutions
spanning public and private data centers to the network edge,
Brocade is leading the industry in its transition to the New IP
network infrastructures required for today's era of digital
business.
Ruckus, Ruckus Wireless and OpenG are trademarks of Ruckus
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a trademark of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., in
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products, or service names mentioned may be trademarks of
others.
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