Ruckus Makes Multimedia Streaming and Wi-Fi Calling Crystal Clear, Flicker Free, Picture Perfect

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Ruckus Wireless, Inc. RKUS announced today that several Ruckus ZoneFlex™ access points (APs), including the new Ruckus ZoneFlex R500  (2x2:2) and ZoneFlex R600 (3x3:3) high-performance 802.11ac mid-range indoor APs, the new ZoneFlex T300 Series dual-band 802.11ac outdoor APs, plus the Ruckus ZoneDirector™ 3000, ZoneDirector 5000, and new ZoneDirector 1200 Smart Wireless LAN (WLAN) controllers, and the Ruckus SmartCell™ Gateway (SCG) 200, have all been qualified under the Microsoft Lync Server Wi-Fi qualification program.

Microsoft Lync certification is designed to ensure an exceptional user experience for small and mid-size businesses (SMBs), and large enterprises that utilize Microsoft Lync and Office 365 by enabling a seamless, fully integrated unified communications (UC) solution. The Microsoft Lync certification of Ruckus Wi-Fi products reflects unique technical advances in handling delay-sensitive voice and video traffic over Wi-Fi.

Unique Innovations in Wi-Fi Traffic Handling Help Ensure Crystal Clear Wi-Fi Calling

Unlike competitive alternatives, Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi access points integrate patented SmartCast™ technology. SmartCast combines sophisticated scheduling and queuing mechanisms with advanced heuristic algorithms that automatically identify and characterize traffic based on its unique behavior to help ensure peak performance.

With a Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi system, all traffic is queued/de-queued by specialized schedulers, optimized for the corresponding traffic type, the delay/jitter tolerance and bandwidth requirements of the traffic, and the changing characteristics of each station on the wireless LAN. This automatic Type Of Service (TOS) tagging also eliminates complex Quality of Service (QoS) configurations, with automatic management of lower-speed 802.11 devices to assure bandwidth availability for prioritized video and voice over Wi-Fi applications. When combined with Ruckus BeamFlex™ adaptive antenna array technology that directs each packet over the fastest signal path that yields the highest data rates, multimedia Wi-Fi performance is effectively perfected.

Simply Better Wi-Fi Calling

This is particularly important with emerging applications such as Wi-Fi calling that now provide the ability to place a cellular voice call over a Wi-Fi network, terminating the call with the carrier network.  

Many Wi-Fi calling solutions utilize the 3GPP IR-92 standard for VoLTE (voice over LTE). This standard has an option that allows the entire LTE stack to be tunneled over Wi-Fi using Internet Protocol Security (IPsec). As a result, the payload is encrypted thereby preventing conventional Wi-Fi access points from differentiating traffic types. Conversely, Ruckus SmartCast is able to prioritize Wi-Fi calling traffic by acting on the TOS bits set by the smartphone in the IP header, using advanced heuristic algorithms that allow the system to detect voice traffic by looking at the size and frequency of packets in a flow, regardless of whether the flow is encrypted.

Microsoft Lync Certification Details

Microsoft Lync delivers a platform for unified communications on devices of all types, including mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and laptops—one that is widely accepted in the enterprise environment. In addition to communication processes such as instant messaging, voice and video calling, Lync is also capable of managing electronic file transfers, Web conferencing and sharing modalities. These services can be utilized not only within the internal organization but with the external world as well.

"Ruckus continues to meet growing customer requirements for higher capacity, managed Wi-Fi enabled UC solutions that support the explosion of smart devices connecting to enterprise networks," said Amer Hassan, Principal GPM, Microsoft Lync Partner Engineering. "By qualifying Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi with Microsoft Lync, Ruckus is delivering the type of infrastructure needed to help meet growing customer demands for increased unified communications capacity and mobility."

"Microsoft Lync delivers a platform for Unified Communications which is widely accepted in the enterprise environment," said Greg Beach, vice president of product management, Ruckus Wireless. "Utilizing the many capabilities Lync provides with a Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi network infrastructure, we believe enterprises can deliver a very high-quality user experience."

For more information about Ruckus Wireless network infrastructure qualified for Microsoft Lync, visit http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dn788945.aspx and click on the 'Networking' tab.

ABOUT RUCKUS WIRELESS
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, Ruckus Wireless, Inc. RKUS is a global supplier of advanced wireless systems for the rapidly expanding mobile Internet infrastructure market. The company offers a wide range of indoor and outdoor "Smart Wi-Fi" products to mobile carriers, broadband service providers, and corporate enterprises, and has over 44,000 end-customers worldwide. Ruckus technology addresses Wi-Fi capacity and coverage challenges caused by the ever-increasing amount of traffic on wireless networks due to accelerated adoption of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Ruckus invented and has patented state-of-the-art wireless voice, video, and data technology innovations, such as adaptive antenna arrays that extend signal range, increase client data rates, and avoid interference, providing consistent and reliable distribution of delay-sensitive multimedia content and services over standard 802.11 Wi-Fi. For more information, visit http://www.ruckuswireless.com.

BeamFlex, Ruckus, Ruckus Wireless, SmartCast, SmartCell, ZoneDirector, and ZoneFlex are trademarks of Ruckus Wireless, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other product or company names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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