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Ruckus Wireless brings new smart Wi-Fi innovations

Ruckus Wireless, Inc. has introduced a collection of new Smart Wi-Fi technology software innovations

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Sanghamitra Kar
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SUNNYVALE, USA: Ruckus Wireless, Inc. has introduced a collection of new Smart Wi-Fi technology software innovations.

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These new Ruckus technology innovations are being integrated as standard features within the Ruckus portfolio of Smart Wi-Fi products to help ensure crystal clear Wi-Fi Calling voice quality in the most challenging Wi-Fi environments.

The new Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi innovations for Wi-Fi Calling address essential roaming and Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. The new innovations enable real-time, bidirectional voice calls that demand a narrow set of operating parameters from the network designed to ensure the highest quality Wi-Fi Calling experience.

The Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi innovations include a variety of new proprietary capabilities such as capacity-based client access control, Wi-Fi multimedia admission controls, directed roaming, and automatic packet flow heuristics. The integration of these and other new Smart Wi-Fi innovations into Ruckus products helps organizations ensure optimal performance of voice over Wi-Fi communications.

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The value of these Ruckus innovations to support high quality voice services was evidenced when the developers at Republic Wireless, the groundbreaking “Wi-Fi First” mobile operator, encountered performance issues with their corporate Wi-Fi network that impacted testing environments. Republic turned to Ruckus.

Crystal Clear Voice over Smarter Wi-Fi- The new Ruckus technology innovations for carrier-class Wi-Fi Calling include a number of advances designed to optimize roaming and quality of service (QoS) for delay-sensitive voice traffic, including:

Automatic QoS Heuristics- This is the ability to prioritize Wi-Fi Calling traffic by looking at the Type of Service (ToS) bits set by the smartphone in the IP header, or by using automatic packet flow heuristics that constantly examine the size and frequency of packets in any flow, encrypted or not.

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Capacity-Based Client Access Control- If too many new devices attempt to connect to a given Wi-Fi access point (AP), already connected clients may experience service degradation. To help ensure existing clients’ quality of user experience, Ruckus ZoneFlex APs can now implement a capacity-based client access control algorithm to decline connection requests from new clients. This new feature allows organizations to protect the user experience during periods of heavy load.

Directed Roaming- Leveraging the 802.11v standard, directed roaming helps to ensure the overall quality of user experience for the entire wireless LAN (WLAN) network by directing clients toward another Wi-Fi access point that can provide a better user experience.

Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) Admission Control- WMM admission control improves the performance of Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi networks for real time voice and video services by preventing oversubscription of bandwidth. By requiring clients to request a specific amount of bandwidth before connecting to a given Ruckus ZoneFlex AP, bandwidth management on each AP now takes into account network load and channel connections before allowing clients to connect.

Becoming available immediately and throughout 2015, the new Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi software innovations for carrier-class Wi-Fi Calling are being embedded within Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi firmware, at no additional cost to customers.

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