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Providing its guests an unprecedented Wi-Fi speed and coverage throughout 20 Caribbean vacation properties, Sandals Resorts International has selected Ruckus Wireless (News - Alert) to supply Smart Wireless LAN equipment. According to the agreement, Ruckus will provide wireless LAN to resort’s Caribbean locations which include Sandals Resorts, Beaches Resorts and The Royal Plantation Collection.

 

Enabling access points to be deployed without Ethernet cabling, the Sandals 802.11n Smart Wi-Fi network leverages recent advances in Smart Mesh Networking. With this, Sandals Resorts can now offer ubiquitous and high-speed Wi-Fi services across its resorts. The customers of the resort can now enjoy hi speed Wi-Fi even at places such as beaches, villas, gazebos, restaurants, coffee shops, pools, patios and other common areas for guest satisfaction.

 

Sandals has selected Ruckus ZoneFlex system over the competing solutions due to its ability to provide longer range directional Wi-Fi signals. These signals offer guests consistent and reliable Wi-Fi connections by automatically steering around interference and obstacles.

 

The large-scale Sandals deployments includes hundreds of Ruckus Wireless indoor and outdoor ZoneFlex 802.11n Smart Wi-Fi access points and offer Wi-Fi services across virtually 100 percent of each property including hundreds of meters of beach. Sandals claims that the Ruckus ZoneFlex system was the only WLAN system to support wireless meshing with 802.11n at a fraction of the cost of comparable alternatives.

 

While unifying the indoor and outdoor environments into a single, centrally-managed wireless LAN, Sandals was looking to have a Wi-Fi that both minimized the number of access points required for complete coverage. By placing additional, higher speed 802.11n access points wherever coverage is needed, the Ruckus ZoneFlex system lets Sandals easily enhance their indoor coverage. Sandals is deploying Ruckus ZoneFlex outdoor 802.11n units that tie into the same Smart WLAN and are managed through a single interface with the indoor units.

 

“The combination of 802.11n and Smart Mesh networking is a compelling alternative to conventional wireless LAN systems,” said Selina Lo, president and CEO of Ruckus Wireless. “It gives companies a future proofed system that allows them to more cost-effectively monetize wireless services while giving end users the best possible experience. Sandals Resorts is the perfect case study on how to do 802.11n right.”

 

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