Ruckus Wireless unveiled Ruckus virtual SmartCell™ Gateway (vSCG), a carrier-class virtualized wireless LAN (WLAN) controller designed to streamline the creation of highly scalable and resilient cloud-based wireless LAN (WLAN) services.
Ruckus said that the virtual SCG is the industry’s first carrier-grade Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) solution for mobile network operators (MNOs), multiple system operators (MSOs), managed service providers (MSPs) and enterprises requiring a carrier-class solution for centralized management of WLAN services that runs in the cloud. The Ruckus vSCG which runs on virtual application within either the KVM (Kernel-base Virtual Machine) or VMware vSphere virtualization environments, supports all of the WLAN controller features of the Ruckus SCG 200, while enabling operators to more cost-effectively build scalable and resilient WLAN cloud services.
Ruckus vSCG is the first component in a larger Ruckus solution that is based on the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) NFV architecture and supports the open-source OpenStack standards. The company plans to provide a virtualized infrastructure and services manager that handles the management of Ruckus virtualized appliances.
The Ruckus virtual SmartCell Gateway that is designed for carrier-class deployments, can support value added Smart Wireless Services such as location based services and analytics like Ruckus SPoT™ Smart Positioning Technology and Ruckus SmartCell Insight (SCI), providing data plane flexibility, and carrier-class features like Hotspot 2.0 and multi-tenant support.
“Mobile network operators are increasingly exploring and evaluating architectures based on the principles of cloud computing and network function virtualization. Carrier class wireless LAN and the associated managed services model is experiencing a transformational shift from being viewed as vertically integrated hardware and software bundled architectures to solutions that offer the flexibility of a cloud based, scalable and flexible multi-tenant deployment model.”
- Sathya Atreyam, Research Manager, Wireless Network Infrastructure, IDC
“Sam Beskur is co-founder and director of U.S. operations for Global Gossip, a global MSP headquartered in Sydney, Australia that operates Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi networks around the world. Beskur says they are keenly interested in using virtualized WLAN management tools like the Ruckus virtual SCG to streamline their Wi-Fi business, reduce time-to-market, dramatically lower their opex, and better enable them to go after new market opportunities. With the Ruckus virtual SCG, we can now quickly spin up additional instances of the platform as demand dictates without having rack and stack discrete WLAN controllers. This radically reduces our time-to-market, giving us a distinct competitive advantage. As more and more of our operations are moving into the cloud, we see the virtual SCG as a critical component to attacking new markets, streamlining our operational management services and opening new revenue streams previously out of reach due to the cost and complexity of conventional enterprise-class wireless LAN management technology.”
- Sam Beskur, Co-Founder and Director of U.S Opeartions, Global Gossip
