Ruckus Wireless announced that its high-speed Wi-Fi wall
switch has experienced broad adoption by hotels around the globe looking to
deliver IP-based in-room services over a unified wired/wireless infrastructure,
while providing high-speed wireless Internet access to a flood of new
Wi-Fi-enabled mobile and handheld devices.
The ZoneFlex 7025 Wi-Fi wall switch integrates 802.11n
Wi-Fi technology with wired Ethernet ports in a small-footprint wall jack,
giving hotel and resort operators an elegant, low-cost and inconspicuous device
that allows them to leverage their existing wired infrastructure to deliver an
ever expanding set of IP-based guest services over multiple virtual LANs
(VLANs).
Hoteliers like Kerzner International Resorts, owners of
the Atlantis Paradise Island resort in the Bahamas, are using the Ruckus wall
switch to offer HD video on demand, mini bar service, temperature control, and
high-speed wired and wireless access, with the highest performance and lowest
cost per room.
For many hoteliers, early Wi-Fi implementations are no
longer able to keep up with the flood of wireless-only devices and
bandwidth-demanding applications being used by guests and staff. Additionally,
as many new services and hotel devices embrace IP as the preferred method of
connectivity and management, the requirement for a converged wired and wireless
network has quickly become a necessity.
In many hotels around the world Ethernet cabling is
limited, and guest rooms and other areas such as the front desk, conference
rooms, meeting spaces and business centers lack Ethernet ports and wireless
coverage.
For hotels that have deployed an extensive wired Ethernet
network, more ports are often required to connect new IP-enabled devices and
support new multimedia services, but installing additional Ethernet switches in
guest rooms can be out of the question due to issues of cost and complexity.
Deployed as a standalone device or centrally managed by
any Ruckus ZoneDirector
wireless LAN controller or Ruckus FlexMaster Wi-Fi management system, the
ZoneFlex 7025 Wi-Fi wall switch reduces the cost and complexity of installing
and managing wired and wireless network services.
The Ruckus Wi-Fi wall switch is driven by a single POE
connection and provides four 10/100 Mbps Ethernet jacks and two uplink Ethernet
wiring options. Additionally, the Ruckus Wi-Fi wall switch uses POE to power a
device such as an IP phone and provides native connectivity to digital phones
through a single digital PBX pass through port.
Ruckus Wireless recently announced
FlexConnect, a collection of patented technologies that streamline the
provisioning and security of a wide range of smart mobile devices to better
enable corporations to deal with the barrage of new Wi-Fi-enabled devices
hitting enterprise networks.
Ruckus Wirelessalso detailed future plans to
support the automatic identification and classification (so called device
fingerprinting) of new smart mobile devices, opening the door to
device-specific policy enforcement, visibility, management and
self-registration.
By Telecomlead.com Team
editor@telecomlead.com
