SUNNYVALE and SAN LEANDRO, Calif., July 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Ruckus
Wireless, Inc. (NYSE: RKUS) announced today that the City of San Leandro has selected, deployed and
standardized a new, free outdoor Smart Wi-Fi service, which is the
first of its kind in the Bay Area that is gigabit-capable,
leveraging the new 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard. San Leandro becomes the eighth city within the
San Francisco Bay Area to have
selected Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi as the foundation for their public
Wi-Fi network infrastructures. Other cities include
San Jose, San Francisco, Mountain View, Hayward, Redwood
City, San Mateo and
Belmont, CA.
Able to support thousands of users at connection speeds ranging
from 100 megabits per second up to one gigabit per second,
San Leandro's new Ruckus Smart
Wi-Fi network will initially provide free high-speed wireless
Internet access within a four-block radius, including: all of
Pelton Plaza and surrounding properties, The Village, Parrott Street (including the Farmers' Market),
and parts of Juana Avenue and East 14th Street. Over time,
San Leandro plans to build upon
the initial installation and expand its free public Wi-Fi coverage
to other surrounding areas, including the City-owned Marina
Community Center on Wicks Boulevard.
The City of San Leandro
launched this public/private partnership to help bring its Wi-Fi
network to life. During the deployment over the past year, Ruckus
and its integration partner, SmartWAVE Technologies, have
been providing Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi equipment and ongoing technical
and engineering support to the City's IT Department. This has
resulted in the creation of one of the most cutting-edge, free
public Wi-Fi services now available in the San Francisco Bay Area, at minimal cost to the
City.
"In partnership with Ruckus and SmartWAVE, San Leandro has now delivered a world-class
public Wi-Fi service that offers some of the fastest speeds
available anywhere within the Bay Area, and we've made it available
to the community," said San
Leandro Mayor Pauline Russo
Cutter. "Not only has Wi-Fi become an expected
utility in this new digital age, it has become an essential tool
for economic development for cities everywhere."
"The proliferation of Wi-Fi on all kinds of new smart mobile
phones, tablets, sensors and Internet of Things devices is driving
incredible new demands for faster and higher capacity Wi-Fi
networks across this country and around the world," said
Dan Rabinovitsj, Chief Operating
Officer at Ruckus Wireless. "In today's connected
world, access to the Internet should be considered
an essential service, like water or electricity; and just like
water and electricity, it should be available to everyone
– regardless of circumstance."
San Leandro's new free public
Wi-Fi service is powered by new Ruckus ZoneFlex™ T300 Series
outdoor Smart Wi-Fi access points that integrate 802.11ac gigabit
Wi-Fi technology, along with a patented adaptive directional
antenna system that extends the distance and strength of signals to
deliver higher data rates to more users trying to access the
network at the same time. The Ruckus access points are
connected via an extensive high-speed fiber optic network operated
by Lit San Leandro.
The City of San Leandro, Ruckus
and SmartWAVE will publicly launch the new free Wi-Fi
Service at a ceremony in Farmer's Market in San Leandro at 6 p.m.
PDT on Wednesday, July 29,
2015.
ABOUT SAN LEANDRO
One of the most diverse cities in the nation located at the center
of the dynamic San Francisco Bay
Area, San Leandro is a
safe, vibrant community of 87,000 residents with well-maintained
neighborhoods, excellent public libraries, twenty-one public parks,
quality local schools, and a wide range of shopping, dining, and
entertainment options. The western border of the city consists of
over eight miles of pristine shoreline and amenities on San
Francisco Bay while a regional park and nature areas fall on the
eastern border. San Leandro
businesses enjoy multiple advantages including close proximity to
the Oakland International Airport
and Port of Oakland, two major
freeways, two BART stations, and access to a large and
well-educated workforce. Through a public-private partnership known
as Lit San Leandro (www.LitSanLeandro.com), a fiber optic network
encircles San Leandro's industrial
and commercial core offering businesses virtually unlimited
Internet connectivity.
Visit www.sanleandro.org to learn more about San Leandro. To receive City press releases,
meeting agendas or other notifications by email, sign up at
www.sanleandro.org/portal.
ABOUT SMARTWAVE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Headquartered
in Atlanta, with project locations
throughout the United States,
SmartWAVE Technologies is a leading "wireless" centric
systems integrator that provides the planning, design, and
integration of wireless networks, along with the unique
applications these networks support. With an operating legacy of
over 12 years, our history is rich with experience in delivering
award winning wireless networks and applications. We work in close
collaboration with our clients to deliver the strategic insight,
proven experience, and practical knowledge necessary to transform
their business through wireless. Whether our Clients require the
expertise to deploy the network and applications throughout an
Enterprise, a Campus, a City, or even a Small Country, our
resources have the experience, capabilities and passion for
delivery. For more information, visit our website at
www.smartwave.us. Catch the Wave!
ABOUT RUCKUS WIRELESS
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, Ruckus Wireless, Inc. (NYSE:
RKUS) is a global supplier of advanced wireless systems for the
rapidly expanding mobile Internet infrastructure market. The
company offers a wide range of indoor and outdoor "Smart
WiFi" products to mobile carriers, broadband service
providers, and corporate enterprises, and has approximately 52,000
end-customers worldwide. Ruckus technology addresses WiFi capacity
and coverage challenges caused by the ever-increasing amount of
traffic on wireless networks due to accelerated adoption of mobile
devices such as smartphones and tablets. Ruckus invented and has
patented state-of-the-art wireless voice, video, and data
technology innovations, such as adaptive antenna arrays that extend
signal range, increase client data rates, and avoid interference,
providing consistent and reliable distribution of delay-sensitive
multimedia content and services over standard 802.11 WiFi. For more
information, visit http://www.ruckuswireless.com.
Ruckus, Ruckus Wireless, and ZoneFlex are trademarks of Ruckus
Wireless, Inc. in the United
States and other countries. All other product or company
names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Media Contacts
David
Callisch
Ruckus Wireless
david@ruckuswireless.com
408-504-5487
Eric Engelbart
Assistant to the City Manager
City of San Leandro
eengelbart@sanleandro.org
510-577-3391
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