Ruckus Wireless, a part of Brocade, announced it has entered into separate partnerships with Amdocs and Intersection. The company also announced a new managed service offering. The announcements were made at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The company has announced Ruckus Service Provider (SP) Cloud, a fully customizable solution for service providers to deliver high-value managed services to their customers. Ruckus SP Cloud is a managed service offering that provides enterprise Wi-Fi through Ruckus’ access points (APs), plus upcoming support for in-building LTE service through Ruckus’ OpenG technology-based small cells and wired networking with Brocade ICX switches.
Ruckus SP Cloud is purpose built for service providers, incorporating dedicated instances for each—including a choice of public or privately owned data center—with carrier-grade service level agreements (SLAs). Furthermore, Ruckus SP Cloud is designed to be customized, deployed and managed by systems integrators, providing a flexible, cost-effective, operator-specific platform for a range of high-performance enterprise managed networking services.
Collaboration with Amdocs
The company also announced a collaboration with Amdocs, a provider of software and services to communications and media companies, to deliver a customizable, managed cloud Wi-Fi service to service providers.
Ruckus Service Provider (SP) Cloud leverages access points (APs) and a cloud-managed, virtualized software platform to deliver a vertically integrated Wi-Fi and LTE offering to service providers, fully managed by Amdocs. The joint offering will enable service providers to deliver Wi-Fi and LTE as managed services either as an enhancement to their current solutions or as new wireless managed services to their business customers.
By deploying the Ruckus SP Cloud solution through Amdocs, service providers can now control offerings through the cloud of their choice, while staying true to their personal branding. With this fully managed service offering, service providers can minimize their internal R&D investment, operational expenses, and ongoing lifecycle management to quickly bring differentiated solutions to market.
Service providers can customize this managed services offering for their unique needs, whether that means installing it in the cloud of their choice or integrating it with a variety of management systems and support packages.
Partnership with Intersection
The third announcement is a partnership with Intersection, an urban experience company. Under the partnership, the company’s aim to bring free high-speed public Wi-Fi to city streets and transit hubs around the globe.
As cities around the world face aging infrastructure and growing populations, leaders are working to improve civic services and better engage citizens without cost to taxpayers.
The engagement between Ruckus and Intersection delivers free, sustainable connectivity through the convergence of world-class wireless technology, digital services and a viable business model supported by advertising. Intersection, the lead company behind LinkNYC, develops cutting-edge platforms that offer services like free gigabit public Wi-Fi and context-aware content, which generates value for cities, citizens, and brands. Ruckus’ technology enables connected devices and users on Intersection’s platform receive a reliable, high-performance connection.