Midwest Surgical Gets Healthy Dose of Smart Wi-Fi to Improve Patient Care

For Wi-Fi, hospitals are a hostile place. With lots of metal, RF interference, patient and staff movement and delay sensitive applications,Midwest Surgical needed a better Wi-Fi plans. The plan called for a Wi-Fi system that was easy to use but could do fancy things others couldn't — like avoiding interference and obstacles and exceptional support for VoIP over Wi-Fi. And any disruption, like running additional cabling, was out of the question.

Midwest turned to Ruckus Wireless to outfit its new medical facilities with state-of-the-art Wi-Fi. Reduced administration, fewer trouble calls, better patient care were only some of the benefits.

Solution

• ZoneDirector 1025 Smart WLAN controller
• 16 Ruckus ZoneFlex 2942 802.11g APs

Learn how Midwest healed itself from sick Wi-Fi.

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The Making of a Smarter Wireless LAN System

Centralized wireless LAN have been done. The problem is that are too complex and costly for the "Unfortunate 50,000" enterprises who don't have hordes of IT staff and IT budget. What's more conventional wireless LAN systems do nothing to automatically adaptive to real-time environmental changes that wreak havoc on Wi-Fi performance. Better range and reliability are essential for enterprises looking to provide a wireless system for more than merely surfing the Internet. Enter a smarter wireless LANs from Ruckus Wireless.

Our ZoneFlex Smart Wireless LAN system is the only one on the market today to combined smart antenna technology, smart wireless mesh networking, and advanced quality of service mechanisms with a single, centralized and scalable platform. The result is a new class of smarter wireless LAN system that deploys in half the time, at half the cost and three times the performance of any other comparable solution.

Solution

• ZoneFlex 7942 802.11n Smart Mesh outdoor APs
• ZoneFlex 7942 802.11n Smart Mesh indoor APs
• ZoneFlex 2942 802.11g Smart Mesh outdoor APs
• ZoneFlex 2942 802.11g Smart Mesh indoor APs
• ZoneDirector 1000 Line of Smart WLAN controllers supporting from 6 to 50 APs
• ZoneDirector 3000 Line of Smart WLAN controllers supporting up to 250 APs

Learn how our ZoneFlex Smart WLAN system can help save you time and money.

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Indoor/outdoor 802.11n makes life that much more enjoyable

Sandals Resorts needed to deploy a reliable high-speed wireless LAN system in record-time. Guests at Sandals resorts were constantly on the move at each of its spawling properties. And Sandals' experience with Wi-Fi had been hit or miss. More and more of its guests were bringing handheld devices such as iPhones, Blackberry Curve's, laptops and Sony PSPs on vactions and wanted to stay connected. But with limited IT staff, limited Ethernet cabling and a limited budget, this was a tall order.

Sandals turned to the Ruckus Wireless ZoneFlex 802.11 Smart WLAN system to provide ubiquitous indoor-outdoor coverage in public areas, guest rooms, pools and patios, restaurants. fitness centers and everywhere else you can think of.

Solution

• 101 ZoneFlex 7942 802.11n Smart Mesh outdoor AP's
• 82 ZoneFlex 7942 802.11n Smart Mesh indoor AP's
• 13 ZoneDirector 1025 WLAN controllers
• 2 ZoneDirector 1050 WLAN controllers
• 3 ZoneDirector 1012 WLAN controllers

Learn the ins and outs of this Wi-Fi deployment.

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Smarter Wi-Fi Helps Monetized Large-Scale Hotspots

HarborLink Network has a problem. It had a huge petroleum customer that wanted to build a "little better gas station" by offering free Wi-Fi in some 9000 gas stations and truck stops in North America. Each hotspot needed to install in minutes and be remotely manageable over the IP WAN. The Wi-Fi equipment needed to be brain-dead simple to deploy, carrier-class, and super affordable - three competing requirements.

HarborLink turned to smarter hotspot technology from Ruckus Wireless that could redirect clients to a central authentication system while continually "phoning home" to its network operations center.

Solution

• Ruckus ZoneFlex 2942 Smart Wi-Fi APs
• Ruckus FlexMaster Remote Management Wi-Fi Platform

Learn how HarborLink monetized large-scale hotspots.

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Making Wi-Fi Sing with Smart Mesh Networking

At London's prestigious Royal College of Music, providing reliable and ubiquitous wireless coverage looked as though it might never happen. Historic buildings constructed in the 1900s of thick concrete and brick were anything but friendly to Wi-Fi signals while users were looking for more Internet access and reliable connectivity in theaters, practice room and residence halls.

Solution

• Ruckus ZoneDirector 1050
• 19 Ruckus ZoneFlex 2942 802.11g APs
• 6 Ruckus ZoneFlex 7942 802.11n APs
• Smart Mesh Networking support

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Learning how to make Wi-Fi do more for less.

With 33 K-12 schools scattered throughout the south of Vancouver, Delta School District needed to find a simple, yet robust WLAN system that its could easily deploy in all its school while managing everything from its district school board office. It was sold on a centrally managed WLAN system but found them all to be too costly and cumbersome — lacking some key features like meshing — that would allow them to better serve from 20,000 students and faculty.

Delta found Ruckus and went to work to install next generation WLANs in all of its 33-schools in 90 days.

Solution

• 150 ZoneFlex 2942 802.11g APs
• 84 ZoneFlex 7942 802.11n APs
• 23 ZoneDirector 1006 WLAN controllers
• 3 ZoneDirector 1012 WLAN controllers
• 4 ZoneDirector 1025 WLAN controllers
• FlexMaster management software
• Smart Mesh network technology

Learn what Delta did to turn wireless into a ubiquitous utility.

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Making 802.11n Wi-Fi Really Fly for Digital Signage.

Based in Beijing, Airmedia operates the largest digital media network in China. With more than 2,000 digital TV screens in over 50 airports throughout China, Airmedia needed a more flexible, high performance and reliable way to transmit high definition advertising to these displays - their business depended on it. At these airports, cabling installation is extremely costly and inflexible. And cable drops required the approval of airport authorities. In many locations, cable drops to the display screens just wasn't possible. In addition, sending someone to swap out DVDs on each terminal was inefficient and costly. Conventional Wi-Fi was tried but due to the harsh RF environment, these products failed miserably to provide long-range and reliable connections that could support real-time streaming media. Airmedia also wanted to minimize the number of APs needed in order to reduce capital costs and operational time and expense to deploy their system.

Then Airmedia found Ruckus.

Solution

• ZoneFlex 7942 802.11n Smart Wi-Fi access points throughout the airports with each AP supporting four HD digital signs
• Redundant ZoneDirector Smart WLAN Controllers in every airport to provide local management.

See what Airmedia did to fix these problems and then some.

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Smarter Wi-Fi delivers full coverage and 24/7 redundant access with fewer APs

Daily Management, Inc. provides professional management of day-to-day operations at 17 resorts located in South Florida, Virginia, Massachusetts and Nevada. Their guests arrive demanding access across the properties, especially in the lobbies during peak check-in and check-out times, but their existing Cisco Wi-Fi network couldn’t deliver.

Their wireless LAN needed to accommodate high density needs, eliminate bottlenecks problems and deliver the maximum broadband available when guests wanted to download games, DVDs, music, chat and use VoIP from their laptops

Solution

• Ruckus ZoneDirector 1050 Smart WLAN controllers
• Hundreds of Ruckus ZoneFlex 2942 Smart Wi-Fi 802.11g APs

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