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NEWS 2008

[02/19/2008]

Ruckus Wireless 802.11n WLAN System Voted "Best Product Idea" at CableLabs® 2008 Winter Conference

Ruckus ZoneFlex Demonstrates Flawless Handling of HD IPTV Streams, Voice-over-Wi-Fi and Streaming Video from a Slingbox

SUNNYVALE, CA, February 19, 2008 – Ruckus Wireless announced today that its ZoneFlex™ Smart Wireless LAN System was voted the "best new product idea most likely to succeed" by CableLabs® at its 2008 Winter Conference held in Colorado Springs, CO, last week. Ruckus was one of nine companies to participate in the Innovation Showcase segment of the conference, in which companies explain and demonstrate the newest products, technologies and ideas.

In an "interference-rich" environment where hundreds of attendees were accessing Cablelabs conference Wi-Fi network, Ruckus Wireless demonstrated advances it has made with 802.11n Wi-Fi technology to handle picture-perfect wireless distribution of multiple MPEG-2 high-definition IPTV streams of 20 mbps each to IP-enabled televisions some 100 feet away. At the same time, Ruckus demonstrated voice-over-Wi-Fi calls from a Blackberry dual-mode phone, Internet access from Wi-Fi enabled laptops and the streaming of video content from a Sling Media Slingbox to a PC.

Unlike any other 802.11n system available today, Ruckus Wireless integrates an intelligent antenna array into each device. This "smart" antenna provides complete control over the Wi-Fi environment, automatically steering signals around interference as it is experienced, thereby ensuring high reliability and predictable, high performance in all locations.

"We get lots of calls from customers having problems with their home networks," said Comcast Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning Mark Coblitz. "Ruckus Wireless showed us today that Wi-Fi networking in the home and in the enterprise can work in a reliable, consistent manner."

"We made a pretty bold move by demonstrating a product that's not yet commercially available," said Selina Lo, President and CEO of Ruckus Wireless. "We were confident our technology would handle the pressure, and it did. And the demo really spoke for itself. Attendees were simply amazed to see so many high-bandwidth applications running concurrently over a single Wi-Fi network – because Wi-Fi is typically viewed as unstable and unreliable. We proved that our technology truly delivers a wire-class wireless experience."

For more information:

David Callisch
Ruckus Wireless
david@ruckuswireless.com
+1-408-504-5487 mobile