A conversation with Steve Hratko, Director of Service Provider Marketing, Ruckus Wireless
Ruckus Wireless takes NFV to the managed WLAN services that operators are increasingly keen to offer to the enterprise. Virtualization of WLAN services can strengthen the business case and enable operators to cost-effectively support a wider set of enterprise customers that includes small-medium businesses. This is a large segment of the enterprise market, but it can be challenging for mobile operators to reach without the flexibility and cost reduction that virtualization promises.
“Virtualization makes it easy for an operator to start turning up a managed service for a large number of accounts. One particular sweet spot is always the SMBs, and many operators focus on that market because SMBs traditionally do not have large IT staffs, or any IT staff,”, says Steve Hratko at Ruckus Wireless. Operators are “not looking to roll it out for one or two customers, they’re looking to roll it out for hundreds or thousands of customers, because they do everything at scale”.
We talked to Steve about how Ruckus virtualized WLAN controller gives operators the agility to scale managed services and offer a richer set of them. And at the same time, mobile operators can integrate enterprise WLAN and small-cell deployments as they complement each other and mutually reinforce the supporting business case.
This conversation will be included in the Senza Fili report “The emergence of the NFV ecosystem: Laying the foundation for a new way to run mobile networks” that will be published on October 6, 2014. If you would like to receive a complimentary copy of the report, please click here and you will be the first to receive the report when it is finalized.
