rkus industry telecommunications equipment founded 2004 headquarters sunnyvale california area served worldwide key people selina lo ceo william kish co founder victor shtrom co founder products hardware software and services to telecommunications service providers and enterprises revenue 373 million 2015 1 number of employees 940 2015 parent brocade communications website www.ruckuswireless.com this article contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . august 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message this article contains wording that promotes the subject in a subjective manner without imparting real information . please remove or replace such wording and instead of making proclamations about a subject s importance use facts and attribution to demonstrate that importance . august 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message ruckus wireless inc. is a global supplier of advanced wireless systems for the mobile internet infrastructure market . the company is headquartered in sunnyvale california . ruckus offers indoor and outdoor smart wi fi products to mobile carriers broadband service providers and corporate enterprises . 2 ruckus invented and has patented wireless voice video and data technology innovations such as adaptive antenna arrays that extend signal range increase client data rates and avoid interference providing distribution of delay sensitive multimedia content and services over standard 802.11 wi fi . 3 on april 4 2016 brocade communications systems inc announced that it is acquiring ruckus wireless for approximately 1.5 billion . 4 contents 1 corporate history 2 technology 3 hardware 3.1 access points 3.2 controllers 4 software 4.1 flexmaster 4.2 smartcell insight 4.3 zoneplanner 4.4 ruckus mobile applications 4.5 wireless services 5 enterprises 6 carriers 7 small businesses 8 references corporate history edit ruckus was founded in 2004 by william kish and victor shtrom . sequoia capital wk technology fund and sutter hill ventures initially funded the company . ruckus is publicly listed on the new york stock exchange under the symbol rkus . 5 in 2015 ruckus wireless became the first wi fi vendor to introduce an 802.11 ac wave 2 access point with the zoneflex r710 . the r710 is capable of supporting twice the density of mobile devices over wave 1 access points . 6 the acquisition by brocade in a cash and stock deal worth about 1.5 billion is meant to add ruckus s wi fi products to brocade s enterprise networking business . 7 technology edit ruckus designed a first of its kind adaptive directional antenna technology called beamflex . the company first sold the technology to other manufacturers to enable them to include it in their products . ruckus also came out with a customer premises equipment cpe device that was sold to service providers . 8 ruckus offers indoor and outdoor access points in several price ranges . beamflex is at the core of ruckus zoneflex aps with its directional antenna technology . this technology automatically adjusts to changes in the radio frequency rf environment providing stronger signals . beamforming has now been integrated into the latest version of the 802.11 standard and 802.11 ac . other products that ruckus offers include controllers software and smart wireless services . 9 hardware edit ruckus offers wi fi branded products such as indoor and outdoor wireless access points and wireless controllers all sold under the brand name . access points edit ruckus offers a large range of indoor and outdoor wireless access points that can support up to 500 simultaneous connections on a single node . in 2007 ruckus launched zoneflex a centrally managed wlan platform for enterprises and carriers . 10 controllers edit ruckus offers two different controllers zonedirector geared for smaller single site deployments and smartzone directed at carrier and large multi site enterprise deployments . smartzone can be delivered as both a virtual and physical appliance . 10 software edit ruckus wireless provides software products to accompany their hardware . they offer the flexmaster smartcell insight ruckus zoneplanner and ruckus mobile applications . flexmaster edit the ruckus flexmaster management system 9.0 is a linux based managed service platform for configuration fault detection audit performance management and optimization of hundreds of thousands of remote smart wi fi aps or smart wireless lans wlans from a single point . 11 smartcell insight edit the ruckus smartcell insight collects and correlates wi fi performance metrics into 19 available reports has do it yourself analytics using customer reports long term retention and software only solution residing on a linux server using centos rhel os . 12 zoneplanner edit the ruckus zoneplanner is a smart wi fi rf simulation . it integrates ruckus adaptive antenna patterns . 13 ruckus mobile applications edit ruckus wireless has mobile applications called ruckus speedflex ruckus zd remote control and ruckus swipe . 14 wireless services edit ruckus wireless provides its customers with location based services . enterprises edit ruckus relies heavily on its enterprise business as it is two thirds of their revenue with almost 100 % of enterprise sales coming from the channel . many of these enterprises include hospitality retail healthcare transportation hubs and education . 15 carriers edit ruckus wireless started out by selling to carrier companies and they are still a good portion of their business . their customers include verizon at & t time warner cable deutsche telekom and china telecom . one third of ruckus business is selling to carrier businesses . 16 small businesses edit xclaim wireless was launched by ruckus in 2014 as a new division aimed at small businesses . xclaim wireless provides a product portfolio designed for enterprise class features at consumer level prices . 17 references edit ruckus income statement annual . yahoo finance . retrieved february 2 2015 . investor s business daily ruckus wireless reaches new heights with wi fi tech nasdaq sept. 10 2014 http www.nasdaq.com article ruckus wireless reaches new heights with wi fi tech cm389517 retrieved july 27 2015 john cox wi fi smart antennas power new carrier gear from ruckus wireless networkworld oct. 18 2010 http www.networkworld.com article 2192096 wireless wi fi smart antennas power new carrier gear from ruckus wireless.html retrieved july 27 2015 https www.ruckuswireless.com press releases 20160404 brocade acquire ruckus wireless build networking company digital peter delevett from fizz to fizzle ruckus wireless plummets 18 percent in ipo san jose mercury news nov. 16 2012 http www.mercurynews.com ci 22012492 from fizz fizzle ruckus wireless plummets 18 percent retrieved july 27 2015 jon gold ruckus first to roll out enterprise 802.11 ac wave 2 ap networkworld april 2 2015 http www.networkworld.com article 2904851 wireless ruckus first to roll out enterprise 802 11ac wave 2 ap.html retrieved july 27 2015 brocade to buy ruckus wireless in 1.5 billion deal . venturebeat . retrieved 2016 04 05 . craig mathias ruckus introduces beamforming for 802.11 n networkworld march 9 2009 http www.networkworld.com article 2234791 ruckus introduces beamforming for 802 11n.html retrieved july 27 2015 wlan infrastructure infonetics research july 6 2015 retrieved july 27 2015 a b paul mah ruckus wi fi access points for your small business cio jan. 31 2013 http www.cio.com article 2388827 wireless networking review ruckus wi fi access points for your small business.html retrieved july 27 2015 john cox ruckus wireless unveils 11n wi fi gear for net operators networkworld feb. 26 2008 http www.networkworld.com article 2283816 network security ruckus wireless unveils 11n wi fi gear for net operators.html retrieved july 27 2015 shamila janakiraman ruckus launches virtual smartcell gateway carrier class virtualized wlan controller nfvzone may 27 2014 http www.nfvzone.com topics nfv articles 379710 ruckus launches virtual smartcell gateway carrier class virtualized.htm retrieved july 27 2015 brian young ruckus wireless introduces zoneplanner wlan f.business july 26 2010 http www.firstpost.com business biztech business tech it infrastructure ruckus wireless introduces zoneplanner wlan 1878809.html retrieved july 27 2015 nathan eddy ruckus wireless launches smart wifi mobile application eweek sept. 9 2014 http www.eweek.com small business ruckus wireless launches smart wifi mobile application.html retrieved july 27 2015 mark haranas crn exclusive ruckus ceo talks winning over aruba partners new juniper partnership and channel push crn june 25 2015 http www.crn.com slide shows networking 300077266 crn exclusive ruckus ceo talks winning over aruba partners new juniper partnership and channel push.htm pgno 0 10 retrieved july 27 2015 mark haranas crn exclusive ruckus ceo talks winning over aruba partners new juniper partnership and channel push crn june 25 2015 http www.crn.com slide shows networking 300077266 crn exclusive ruckus ceo talks winning over aruba partners new juniper partnership and channel push.htm pgno 0 10 retrieved july 27 2015 kristen bent ruckus wireless targets smb market with new xclaim brand go to market model crn oct. 29 2014 http www.crn.com news networking 300074620 ruckus wireless targets smb market with new xclaim brand go to market model.htm retrieved july 27 2015 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ruckus wireless & oldid 733436358 categories companies listed on the new york stock exchangenetworking hardware companiescompanies based in sunnyvale californiahidden categories articles with a promotional tone from august 2016all articles with a promotional tonearticles with peacock terms from august 2016all articles with peacock terms 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