Ruckus WLAN system recognised

BANGALORE, INDIA: Ruckus Wireless announced that its ZoneFlex 802.11n smart wireless LAN (WLAN) system achieved the best value for the money in a new competitive WLAN cost analysis entitled 'The Real Cost of 802.11n in the Enterprise.'

The multivendor WLAN price/performance comparison was based on publicly available US list pricing and compiled and written in conjunction with a third party. The report compares the required infrastructure components and costs for WLAN solutions for two common enterprise 802.11n wireless deployments using products from Aruba Networks, Cisco Systems, HP/Colubris, Meru Networks and Ruckus Wireless. The two common scenarios include:

Wireless coverage only for a 500,000 square foot facility serving 1,000 users, and

Wireless coverage and performance for a 500,000 square foot facility serving 1,000 users with a minimum of 10Mbps of throughput per user.

The comparisons account for the frequently inconsistent elements required among vendors to achieve comparable coverage and per-user capacity. Such components, including different licensing schemes and the need for greater controller-based resources in centralized forwarding architectures, are often not apparent when making top-line cost comparisons. As such, they can represent hidden costs that come as a surprise to enterprise customers.

Sudarshan Boosupalli, Country Head India & SAARC, Ruckus Wireless, said: ”This means that customers implementing Wi-Fi and Ruckus ZoneFlex system will require 40 percent fewer access points compared to competition to provide the same or better coverage while delivering 10MBps of wireless capacity to 1,000 users. Ruckus ZoneFlex system ranged from $30,000 to $385,000 less than competitive WLAN solutions."