Ruckus Wireless (News - Alert), Inc. has recently rolled out the latest Cloud-based Smart Wi-Fi Access Management Service (SAMS), built to offer the scale and proficiencies of cloud-based services with Smart Wi-Fi products and technology, managed from a user-friendly cloud-based portal.
This new service enables organizations to easily design, manage, and monetize Wi-Fi services from an in-built 'point-and-click' Cloud-based portal. Users can log into the service portal to create a new site, configure access settings, customize the registration page, user journey, and upload any ads or messages for display.
This new service is suitable for any organization or venue offering managed public wireless access, such as shopping malls, stadiums, convention centers, airports and retail outlets and belongs to Ruckus’s Smart Wireless Services (SWS) stream. The SAMS allows businesses to create and customize wireless hot spots for single or multiple sites without building data centers or arranging the infrastructure normally required for offering managed Wi-Fi access services.
In addition, SWS offers a flexible framework for layering value-added software services such as cloud-based wireless access like SAMS or the company's SPoT location services, as well as virtualized management software over carrier-class Smart Wi-Fi infrastructure products and platforms.
"The benefits the Cloud brings to the wireless access market is undeniable," said Selina Lo (News - Alert), president and CEO of Ruckus Wireless. "Beyond delivering world-class Wi-Fi infrastructure solutions, with SAMS, Ruckus continues to give its partners and customers the ability to realize greater value from Wi-Fi through innovative new services such as Cloud-based access, location services, rich analytics and the ability to begin monetizing their networks."
The company has announced the new SAMS will be available globally this May and will be priced on a yearly subscription basis per access point (for a one-, three- or five-year subscription period), with 24/7 customer support included.
If used as a public access cloud service, where WLAN management is required for both existing and newly deployed ZoneFlex Smart WiFi (News - Alert) access points, SAMS is priced at $265.50 per AP per year (hosted subscription). SAMS cloud-based public access services are estimated at $180 per access point per year (onsite subscription), for environments where local WLAN management is already provided or desired through onsite ZoneDirector controllers.
Edited by Maurice Nagle