Ruckus Wireless said today that it will demonstrate a Smart Wi-Fi system based on next-generation 802.11n technology at the upcoming 2007 Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, this January.
Current products based on draft 802.11n specification allow devices to transmit at speeds greater than 70 Mbps, but they all have problems sustaining the high performance at far distances, challenging locations or in noisy environments.
The Ruckus “Smart-N” technology is said to reject noise and delivers consistent throughput regardless of location and device placement. The Ruckus Smart-N system combines 3×3 XSPAN 802.11n silicon technology from Atheros Communications with Ruckus Wireless’ BeamFlex-N multi- dimensional antenna and SmartCast traffic engineering software.
“Early Pre-N products failed to fulfill the promise of delivering solid, stable bandwidth to support whole-home high-definition video streams,” said Selina Lo, president and CEO of Ruckus Wireless. “This is the killer application that consumers and carriers really care about, and this is what we’re demonstrating to the world.”
Despite the popularity of wireless IPTV in Europe and Asia, incumbent carriers in North America still rely on wires and are waiting for higher speed wireless technology to support multiple HDTV streams within a home.
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Patent- pending BeamFlex-N is a dynamically-configurable, multi-polarized antenna system capable of forming thousands of unique antenna patterns to reject interference and focus transmit energy in various directions and orientations. BeamFlex-N selects the best antenna configurations for each packet by identifying the optimum path for each transmit radio and steering signals away from obstacles and interference.
Smart Wi-Fi 802.11n products from Ruckus Wireless are slated to begin shipping in the second half of 2007. ComputerWorld reviewed both the $159 Ruckus MediaFlex Router and the $99 MediaFlex Adapter together. According to ComputerWorld’s reviewer:
In the end, it’s hard to find a reason to recommend going out of your way to track down a Ruckus system, which is currently only available from a few specialty outlets, when commonly available, and somewhat cheaper, gear seems to get the job done about as well and offers more robust options to fine-tune your wireless network.
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