Ruckus Wireless has had strong market share growth, according to a new report from Dell’Oro Group, and has the No. 2 market position in the service provider segment.
The report examined the indoor and outdoor wireless local area network market for the fourth quarter of 2012, and found that Ruckus posted the strongest growth among all wireless vendors year-over-year: 74%. Total market revenues for enterprise and outdoor WLANs hit $3.7 billion for the quarter, up 23% from the same period in 2011.
Dell’Oro Group found that the two largest vertical markets for wireless LANs for education (24% of the market) and service provider Wi-Fi (14%). The service provider segment saw a sharp increase in year-over-year growth, with fourth quarter 2012 revenues more than doubled year-over-year to $109 million.
The city of San Jose, Calif. turned on its “Wickedly Fast Wi-Fi” in the downtown core last week, which is a public/private partnership with Ruckus and SmartWAVE Technologies.
–Radisys scored a win with its small cell software solution chosen by Samji for picocell deployment in Korea.
The deployment will include Radisys’ Trillium TOTALeNodeB and Mindspeed’s T3300 small cell silicon support.
Samji’s VP and CTO Chong-Yung Chun said that the company chose Radisys because its software could support all of its small cell deployments, from very small, targeted residential cells supporting up to eight users, to pico cells supporting more than 100.
“This scalability combined with the integral support of Radisys’ system architects who joined with our engineering team to deliver the best solution punctuates why Radisys was best equipped to help us deploy rapidly,” he added.
Radisys’ ENodeB solution is also being deployed in the United Kingdom and North America, according to the company.
— Cellphone-Mate received FCC approval for its Tri-Flex cellular amplifier products for residential and home office use. The Tri-Flex product comes in several models for carrier customers – Tri-Flex V (Verizon Wireless), Tri-Flex A (AT&T) and the Tri-Flex T tri-band amplifier for both T-Mobile USA’s “4G” and Canadian carriers for such Bell, Rogers and Telus.
The amplifiers are the industry’s first tri-band signal enhancement product, Cellphone-Mate said, and support improved reception for 2G/3G voice and “4G” data transmission; they also boost cellular, PCS, LTE or AWS bands.
—SOLiD has launched its new distributed antenna system aimed at the public safety market. Express PS uses a single-fiber DAS platform to support the 700/800/UHF/VHF frequencies used by public safety agencies, to solidify in-building coverage for first responders. The product also meets requirements set by the National Fire Protection Association and the International Fire Code.
