Ruckus Wireless Introduces ChannelFly
Ruckus Wireless has introduced ChannelFly, a new technology innovation specifically developed to address the growing need to deliver more reliable WiFi performance within noisy and crowded RF environments caused by the invasion of smart, WiFi-only devices onto enterprise and service provider networks.
ChannelFly assesses all available channels within the 2.4 and 5GHz bands. It also leverages Ruckus-patented adaptive antenna approach, BeamFlex that constantly learns and selects the best signal path for any given WiFi transmission. A statistical adaptive channel selection technique, ChannelFly applies similar principles to automatically determine the best radio operating frequency (RF channel) to be used that will yield the highest client throughput.
"Historical approaches to WiFi channel selection use spectrum analysis or packet sniffing techniques to basically guess the impact of interference on WiFi capacity. But with WiFi, what an AP hears doesn't necessarily determine capacity. We skip those needless and disruptive steps and just measure the wireless capacity directly," said Bill Kish, Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Ruckus Wireless.
Now integrated within every Ruckus ZoneFlex Smart WiFi AP, ChannelFly operates automatically without any human intervention. And because ChannelFly is based on actual channel throughput measurements, no background scanning is required for ongoing channel optimization. This eliminates the need for APs to be out of service when performing off-channel scanning. ChannelFly uses the IEEE 802.11h protocol to automatically advertise when a change to a better WiFi channel is necessary.
Available immediately at no cost within a new release of Ruckus ZoneFlex software (v. 9.3), ChannelFly is a selectable feature that operates automatically on every Ruckus ZoneFlex access point.
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