Ruckus Wireless Names Former Cisco/Airespace Exec as VP of Engineering

Home Networking Innovator Sees Insatiable Opportunity for Reliable, In-Home Wi-Fi, Accelerated Momentum with Broadband Providers Around the World

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, April 3, 2006 - Ruckus Wireless, credited with developing the first "smart Wi-Fi" system optimized for streaming video, voice and data, today announced that Steve Martin, former vice president of engineering for Airespace (acquired by Cisco in 2005), has joined the company to head up its engineering organization.

With more than 15 years of experience in the networking industry building companies such as Airespace, US Robotics and 3Com Corporation, Martin will help Ruckus scale its research and development efforts to meet the growing demand for its products and technologies.

"Being able to attract someone of Steve's caliber is a testament to our early successes in a rapidly developing market," said Selina Lo, president and CEO of Ruckus Wireless. "Steve brings extensive management experience and proven leadership in taking innovative technologies to stable, large-scale production deployments."

Martin will focus his initial efforts in several key areas including carrier-class remote WLAN management, advanced voice over Wi-Fi and the application of Ruckus's patent-pending breakthroughs to the new 802.11n standards.

"In a very short period of time, Ruckus has attracted some of the top RF and networking talents in the business," said Martin. "This team has already turned industry heads by creating products and technologies that literally transform Wi-Fi into a predictable medium for jitter- and loss-sensitive applications. This is what world-class engineering is all about - being at the brink of a market change with the right technology at the right time."

Martin joins Ruckus at a time when its momentum is accelerating due to rapid changes in digital media content distribution, and the demand for accessing such content anywhere, anytime, throughout the home is increasing.

More and more, multimedia content is being delivered to consumers over their home broadband links. This content is encapsulated in Internet Protocol (IP) and requires a computer network between the broadband gateway and the multimedia receivers located in other parts of the home. Analysts say, less than 15 percent of U.S. households operate a home network today and point to the fact that Wi-Fi has now surpassed wired Ethernet as the computer networking technology of choice in the home.

However up to now, inadequate range, spotty coverage and variable performance have limited the application of consumer-grade Wi-Fi products to only data applications, such as Internet browsing. Delay-sensitive applications, such as real-time video streaming and voice over Wi-Fi, require constant, available bandwidth that consumer-grade Wi-Fi products cannot adequately support.

Ruckus has developed new technology that makes Wi-Fi stable enough to support the reliable transmission of digital voice, video and data around the home, despite the constantly changing RF environment that is continually affected by motion, cordless phones, microwave ovens, neighboring networks and countless other sources of interference. To do this, Ruckus developed state-of-the art smart antenna techniques to powerfully direct Wi-Fi signals to end devices and automatically steer the signals around sources of interference.

Since introducing its first smart Wi-Fi system in September 2005, the company has signed a number of broadband providers in Europe, Asia Pacific and North America to bundle the Ruckus system with their respective broadband "triple play" services. Additionally, the Ruckus smart Wi-Fi system is currently in trials with more than 25 U.S. carriers and 24 international providers. The company is also working with a variety of set top box makers and consumer electronics manufactures on the integration of Ruckus technology into their respective systems.