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August 31, 2009

Ruckus Smart Wireless Deployed on Historic Queen Mary

By Nathesh, TMCnet Contributor

Queen Mary, one of the world’s most historic ships is now permanently docked and is now serving as a luxury hotel and convention center in Long Beach, California. Queen Mary will be outfitted with Ruckus Wireless’ (News - Alert) ZoneFlex Smart wireless LAN, or WLAN, products for wireless connectivity from any place on the ship in order to support its visitors.



 
Ruckus Wireless is a manufacturer of advanced ‘Smart Wi-Fi’ technology and wireless LAN (WLAN) systems used by enterprises and carriers around the world.
 
The decision to deploy Ruckus products was made by Hotel Internet Services , the provider of secure wired and wireless Internet services and Queen Mary IT staff. Ruckus stated that its solutions have the capability to extend signal range and overcome wireless challenges such as RF interference and impenetrable obstacles and that is why they were chosen.
 
Visitors to the Queen Mary come onboard with all kinds of wireless-enabled handheld devices and they expect a Wi-Fi connection for their devices. The metallic walls and other unfriendly RF obstacles on the Queen Mary made the deployment of Wi-Fi effectively impossible.
 
HIS officials stated that after searching for a suitable solution extensively they realized that Ruckus’ high performance and ability was able to overcome these shortcomings.
 
Other Wi-Fi solutions vendors would have required more than 90 Access Points just to support the hotel and conference space but with Ruckus products they were able to deploy the entire Wi-Fi network using one-third the number of APs.
 
Ruckus claims that its ZoneFlex Enterprise WLAN systems bring power and simplicity together for large-scale enterprise WLAN deployments – along with all the requisite capabilities that enterprises demand.
 
HIS designed, installed and provides ongoing management and maintenance of the Queen Mary's Wi-Fi infrastructure. The company acknowledges within two weeks after deploying the Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi system, the Queen Mary saw the connection rate double compared to its existing powerline solution, and without advertising the availability of the Wi-Fi service.
 
Ruckus recently announced that its ZoneFlex 802.11n Smart Wireless LAN system achieved the best value for the money and extended the 802.11n WiFi (News - Alert) to Enterprise WLANs.

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Nathesh is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Nathesh's articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Tim Gray


 







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