[May 15, 2013] Ruckus Wireless' technology selected to transform phone booths into super fast Wi-Fi hotspots in New Zealand Tweet May 15, 2013 (M2 EQUITYBITES via COMTEX) -- Ruckus Wireless Inc (NYSE:RKUS), a supplier of advanced wireless systems for the mobile Internet infrastructure market, announced on Tuesday its selection by Telecom NZ (Telecom), the national communications service supplier in New Zealand, to transform conventional payphones into ultra fast, outdoor Wi-Fi hotspots in locations across the country. Financial details of this selection were not available. Telecom, under its initial pilot project outfitted phone booths in holiday locations over Christmas in December 2012 with Ruckus ZoneFlex 7762 outdoor dual-band 802.11n access points (APs) to provide the public with free high-speed Wi-Fi access. Now, Telecom is expanding its solution to over 3,000 telephone booths it operates across New Zealand. Ruckus said that each ZoneFlex 7762 AP integrates an adaptive antenna array based on Ruckus BeamFlex technology to deliver client devices much stronger Wi-Fi signals that can automatically adapt to obstacles and interference to increase wireless reliability and performance. Central management of the Ruckus access points is provided through the Ruckus SmartCell Gateway (SCG) 200, a massively scalable and versatile wireless LAN (WLAN) platform. Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected] [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]