Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Ruckus Wireless
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 11:30 AM IST (06:00 AM GMT)
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VIT Vellore and VIT Chennai Chose Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi for Campus-wide Wi-Fi Networks
Cutting-edge Wi-Fi technologies overcame user density and performance challenges, providing reliable and high-speed Wi-Fi access to over 20,000 students and staff across the campus
New Delhi, Delhi, India, Wednesday, March 21, 2012 -- (Business Wire India) -- Ruckus WirelessT today announced that VIT Vellore and VIT Chennai, India's leading professional institutions, have deployed Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi to support a campus-wide Wi-Fi network, delivering a high-speed Wi-Fi network to over 20,000 students. The campus-wide consists of over 200 Ruckus ZoneFlex 7962 dual-band 11n Access Points, covering new student hostel facilities.
VIT University, established under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission (UGC) Act, 1956, was founded in 1984 as a self-financing institution called the Vellore Engineering College. The campus encompasses over 350 acres, and is located in India's southern state, Tamil Nadu, between Chennai and Bangalore.
According to ABI Research, global revenue from wireless LAN equipment in the higher education space is expected to reach over USD $837 million by 2013. Driving the adoption of Wi-Fi within higher education is the increased use of video over Wi-Fi for a variety of uses spanning from peer-to-peer student and student/teacher communications to video streaming of lectures, IPTV and CCTV applications.
Mohan Kumar C M, Head of IT Infrastructure, VIT University, Chennai said "Today, technology has permeated every sphere of life. Universities across the globe are using it to invigorate their academic and administrative processes. Proliferations of mobile devices such as smart phones, tablets have made our university become a more open learning environment. The problem is that universities create one of the worst environments for Wi-Fi given all the various devices, obstructions, delay-sensitive applications and RF interferences found here. We were looking for a Wi-Fi system that would work well in interference prone and environment where full of obstructions. For students today, Wi-Fi is now not just a matter of convenience or a privilege; it is an expectation. Mobility is the need of the hour. Campus Wi-Fi networks help the students and faculty members to access to e-learning materials anytime anywhere." Kumar added.
There were major challenges in university's existing wireless infrastructure. The legacy Wi-Fi network could not cater to the huge data demand and user density at the campus. Students and faculty staff had to deal with network availability very often. Also, it would often lead to loss of connectivity as a result of choking of bandwidth. The entire connectivity infrastructure was unreliable which led to a large number of complaints.
"Wi-Fi is now considered as a strategic imperative in education, enabling a ubiquitous, always-on learning environment connecting to the world. Today mobile devices have risen to become the most popular way to stay online, encouraging higher education to create a more open and efficient environment to students. Wi-Fi is widely used as an aid to enable e-learning, increase operational efficiency and gain timely information access. Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi provides the reliability needed for the new type of applications demanded by the education industry. Ruckus was honored to be the provider of VIT's WLAN network. Ruckus patented adaptive antenna and ChannelFlyT technologies enabled large deployments in high RF interference environment to continually maintain a stable and consistent Wi-Fi networks without a lot of un-necessary add-on equipment. Therefore Ruckus is able to deploy high-performance Wi-Fi at a more affordable price than our competitors." said Mr. Manjit Singh, Managing Director for India, Ruckus Wireless.
VIT looked at several popular Wi-Fi solutions in the market, but could not zero in on the brand with the right balance of performance and cost. The new requirement for campus Wi-Fi should be able to be deployed campus-wide at an affordable price. Only Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi gave the highest performance in terms of coverage, performance, manageability, and scalability at the cost VIT can deploy today, and continue to expand in the future.
VIT started the deployment in November 2011 and the entire deployment, including the cabling throughout the campus was completed within 1 month. Ruckus SmartMesh enabled VIT to outfit the ZoneFlex system where cabling was not in place. By backhauling the Wi-Fi traffic through the 5G Hz mesh links, VIT was able to bring Wi-Fi wherever they wanted, even without Ethernet cabling in place.
"We proposed Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi because they delivered a robust performance that meets testing parameters of VIT. Even though there were a large number of APs installed, the configuration was easy and the installation hardly lasted a few hours. Ruckus Wi-Fi technology delivered much better coverage, interference mitigation and deployment flexibility that we couldn't find in any other supplier." said Mr. Murali Rajesh, General Manager, Seamless Communication (P) Limited.
About Ruckus Wireless
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Ruckus Wireless is supplier of advanced wireless systems for the explosive 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. Ranked as the top telecom company by Inc. Magazine and named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, Ruckus invented and has patented state-of-the-art wireless technology, such as adaptive antenna arrays that focus and direct Wi-Fi transmissions over the best signal path, automatically avoiding sources of Wi-Fi interference. These unique capabilities extend signal range, increase client data rates, and ensure consistent and reliable distribution of delay-sensitive multimedia content and services over standard 802.11 Wi-Fi. With over 55 patents, 12,000 customers, and 4,000 solution partners worldwide, Ruckus employs over 450 staff in 22 countries. To date, the company has shipped over 3 million Smart Wi-Fi systems around the world and has raised $75 million in funding from premier investors such as Meritech Capital Partners, Sequoia Capital, SingTel, 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.
About VIT Vellore
VIT University, established under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission (UGC) Act, 1956, was founded in 1984 as a self-financing institution called the Vellore Engineering College. The Union Ministry of Human Resources Development conferred University status on Vellore Engineering College in 2001. The institution offers 18 undergraduate and 34 postgraduate programs. It has 350-acre eco-friendly campus at Vellore and 150-acre eco-friendly second campus at Chennai. VIT is one of largest private university in India with over 19,600 students,1100 faculty and 1275 staff.
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