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The Business

Ruckus Wireless™ is a venture-backed, global Wi-Fi technology company and a leading provider of advanced mobile internetworking products and solutions. The company is credited with developing the industry’s first adaptive wireless system that helps providers and enterprises deliver more reliable connectivity to an ever-increasing population of Wi-Fi-enabled devices.

A pure-play wireless company, Ruckus designs, manufactures and markets unique Smart Wi-Fi systems for service providers and enterprises based on a wide range of patented technologies that deliver unique value, such as extending signal range and automatically adapting to changes in the wireless environment to provide more reliable connectivity and consistent performance at longer ranges.

Formed in June 2004, the company has become one of the fastest growing privately-held wireless technology innovators. Since 2006, Ruckus has seen 1,146% growth in sales with an 88% compound annual growth rate (CAGR).

With R&D operations in Sunnyvale, CA; Shenzhen, China; Bangalore, India; and Taipei, Taiwan, Ruckus is a highly diversified and global business.

Ruckus Wireless sells its award-winning Wi-Fi systems to mobile operators and broadband service providers to support applications such as 3G offload, wireless broadband access and managed wireless LAN services. For enterprises, Ruckus offers complete indoor and outdoor Smart WLAN systems based on innovative adaptive antenna technology.

This unique technology continuously forms and directs signals over the best performing paths — avoiding interference and obstacles in real time — enabling unprecedented support for multimedia applications such as wireless IP-based video.

Critically acclaimed for its excellence in engineering, Ruckus products and staff have garnered more than 30 industry awards over the last two years. The company is also credited with having the world’s largest Wi-Fi deployment in India through Tikona Digital Systems, which has installed over 45,000 mesh nodes across 35 cities to provide last-mile wireless access to hundreds of thousands of subscribers. In Japan, KDDI, the national telelecommunications provider, is using Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi to build the world’s largest mobile data offload network with over 120,000 Wi-Fi locations.

The company sells its products worldwide through both direct and indirect channels. Enterprise wireless LAN systems are sold exclusively through a vast global network of more than 2,500 accredited channel partners, systems integrators and distributors, while the company’s mobile Wi-Fi systems are sold directly to global carriers. To date, the company has shipped over 3 million Smart Wi-Fi systems worldwide.

Ruckus has a large and diverse base of world-class service provider and enterprise customers including KDDI (Japan), The Cloud (UK), PCCW (Hong Kong), Swisscom (Switzerland), Belgacom (Belgium), China Telecom, Deutsche Telekom (Germany), Telecom Austria, SingTel (Singapore), TeliaSonera (Nordic), Telstra, Cablevision, CenturyLink, Bright House Networks, Marriott, Fairmont Hotels, and many more.