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International Engineering Consortium Names
Ruckus 802.11n System Product of the Year
MediaFlex 7000 Distinguished as Only 802.11n Multimedia System in Carrier Production Environments Today Supporting HD IPTV
BROADBAND WORLD FORUM, Brussels, Belgium – October 1, 2008 – Ruckus Wireless™ today announced that its new MediaFlex™ 7811 802.11n Smart Wi-Fi system was awarded the product of the year by the International Engineering Consortium (IEC), receiving the prestigious InfoVision Award in the Wireless Broadband category, at the IEC’s annual Broadband World Forum event in Europe.
“We were pleased to honor Ruckus Wireless this afternoon for its MediaFlex 802.11n Smart Wi-Fi system as a winner of the InfoVision Award at the Broadband World Forum Europe 2008,” commented IEC Executive Vice President Roger Plummer.
Currently the only 802.11n Wi-Fi system deployed to support commercial IPTV services, the Ruckus MediaFlex 7000 series is the first purpose-built customer premise equipment to enable broadband carriers to simultaneously distribute multiple multicast IP high definition streams throughout subscriber homes. The MediaFlex 7000 leverages the emerging 802.11n standard to provide flicker-free distribution of high-definition IPTV content - allowing providers to reduce costly and cumbersome cabling, provide greater freedom to end users while speeding time to market.
Belgacom is among the first service providers to select the MediaFlex 7000 for its BelgacomTV service, one of the most successful IPTV services with over 390,000 subscribers throughout Belgium.
The InfoVision Award program recognizes technologies, applications, products, advances, and services judged to be the most unique and beneficial to the communications industry. InfoVision award winners were judged on the following criteria:
- Value of service or technology in solving recognized technology problems, meeting network requirements, optimizing service and performance, and/or enhancing customer service
- Overall quality of innovation and contribution to technology advancement
- Originality and vision
- Potential contribution toward positive industry growth and service
- Market success/acceptance (where applicable)
- Contribution to end-user quality of experience and service efficiency
- Benefit to environment/adherence to green practices (for Go Green category only)
We’re privileged to be recognized by the IEC for what we believe is a watershed achievement in the industry,” said Selina Lo, president and CEO of Ruckus Wireless. “Unlike many wireless vendors, we’ve focused on developing value-added 802.11n products and technology to solve specific application problems such as HD IPTV distribution and wireless meshing. Ultimately customers want more than general purpose technology – especially when it comes to wireless. Reliability, range, cost and performance are the big four criteria. With the MediaFlex 7000 we’ve solved them all.”
The InfoVision Award marks the 26th consecutive product/technology award given to Ruckus Wireless for excellence in achievement in the area of wireless communications over the last 24 months.