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Ruckus offers solution to IPTV distribution in the home
Stuart Corner
Tuesday, 10 October 2006 11:36
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US company Ruckus Wireless has launched technology claimed to allow operators to remotely enable, manage and secure WiFi networks in the home, primarily for the distribution of IPTV. It has announced sales to a telco in Czech Republic and raised $US16 million in venture finance with backers and customers claiming it has a unique solution to a significant problem.The distribution of bandwidth-intensive IPTV services within the home, where cabling is difficult, remains a challenge to service providers and a barrier to customer uptake. Standard WiFi is inadequate. Some carriers have resorted to broadband over powerline and others to proprietary, high bandwidth wireless , but ensuring the priority and QoS needed for reliable delivery of IPTV over a network that is outside their management control remains a significant challenge.
Ruckus claims that two major issues have prevented service providers from deploying Wi-Fi as a utility network in consumers' homes: unstable performance affecting the quality of delay-sensitive applications such as streaming video and the inability to remotely identify and diagnose WiFi related problems as consumers experience them.
Ruckus already offers a wireless technology, MediaFlex, a wireless LAN technology claimed to be an advance on standard WiFi which it says has been deployed by over 50 service providers worldwide in their production IPTV rollouts or home trials. According to Ruckus, it is "the only proven solution for in-home distribution of IPTV over standard Wi-Fi."
Ruckus claims that, unlike consumer-grade Wi-Fi devices, the Ruckus MediaFlex was developed as "an industrial-strength smart Wi-Fi system that automatically adapts to the changing RF characteristics within the home using state-of-the-art, patent-pending smart antenna and quality of service technologies."
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