Overcoming Wi-Fi Challenges Facing Digital Voice in the Home
For consumers, Fixed/Mobile Convergence (FMC) means a world where integrated voice and data services are available everywhere through a single mobile handset that replaces disjoint cellular and landline telephones. For carriers, FMC represents a lucrative opportunity to leverage inexpensive technologies to offload increasingly-rich multimedia traffic from costly licensed network infrastructures. Broadband operators everywhere are interested in FMC to broaden the footprint of their services and infrastructure at a relatively low cost, augment coverage into buildings and increase subscriber “stickiness.”
Worldwide FMC revenue is poised to explode, with estimates reaching $28 billion and 92 million subscribers by 2011. To successfully tap this market, carriers will need to provide ubiquitous, reliable, cost-effective wireless coverage.
About Ruckus Wireless
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Ruckus Wireless is supplier of advanced wireless systems for the mobile Internetworking market. The company markets and manufactures a wide range of indoor and outdoor “Smart Wi-Fi” products for mobile operators, broadband service providers and corporate enterprises around the world. Since 2006, the company has realized record revenue and shipments with a CAGR of over 119% percent. Ruckus invented, and has patented, state-of-the-art wireless technology that steers Wi-Fi signals around obstacles and interference. This unique capability extends signal range and ensures consistent reliable distribution of delay-sensitive multimedia content and services over standard 802.11 Wi-Fi. The company has shipped over 2 million Smart Wi-Fi systems around the world and has raised $51 million in funding from premier investors such as Sequoia Capital, Focus Ventures, Sutter Hill, Motorola, T-Ventures, Telus Ventures and Firelake Capital. The company is led by Ms. Selina Lo, president and chief executive officer. For more information, visit Ruckus Wireless at http://www.ruckuswireless.com.
