To get around this problem, Ruckus, a wi-fi technology pioneer headquartered in Silicon Valley in the US, has now developed outdoor access points with a range of up to 20 km.
According to Bart Burstein, president of product management and business development for Ruckus Wireless, Ruckus can now deploy end-to-end broadband wireless access offering DSL capabilities. The solution includes a smart wi-fi outdoor access point with a 20 km range, a point-to-point backhaul system, and a wireless gateway to beam the wi-fi signals indoors.
Ruckus Wireless' new wi-fi technology products can be used to provide wireless services to businesses, housing complexes and schools. It calls its solution the industry's first end-to-end wireless broadband solution.
The products, which include two outdoor mesh access points (ZoneFlex 7762 and ZoneFlex 2741), a backhaul antenna system (ZoneFlex 7731), a customer premise gateway (MediaFlex 2200), combined with a remote wi-fi service management system, are called Wireless Broadband Access (WBA), said Burstein. They rely on unlicensed wi-fi spectrum using the 802.11g and faster 802.11n specification.