GEC NEWS WIRECompanies Combine Powerful Smart Wi-Fi Technology with Innovative Cloud-based Software Services to Easily Enable the Provisioning, Management and Monetization of Public Wi-Fi Access
Ruckus Wireless, and Global Reach Technology Ltd., a leading announced a strategic partnership to give service providers and enterprises the ability to more easily provision, manage and monetize public Smart Wi-Fi access services.
Under the partnership, the companies are integrating and marketing their respective award-winning products–bringing together Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi infrastructure solutions with Global Reach’s innovative Cloud-based policy, management and authentication technology. The combined solution now gives organizations unprecedented customization of, visibility into and control over Wi-Fi access services.
Global Reach is an innovator in the development of Cloud-base d network solutions that offer simplified user provisioning, policy controls, and advanced user and network analytics, along with custom portal and authentication services.
“We believe the combination of Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi with Global Reach’s Cloud-based software services will effectively transform the market for managed public Wi-Fi access networks,” said Nigel Wesley, chief executive officer for Global Reach.
“Our combined hardware/software solutions dramatically simplify how managed Wi-Fi access networks are designed and managed by giving customers the power to create highly customized and carrier-grade public access services in hours rather than weeks or months,” Wesley concluded.
“Global Reach has established a remarkable position in the managed service market with a complete portfolio of Cloud-based software services that have become instrumental in the monitoring, management and monetization of wireless public access services,” said Selina Lo, president and CEO of Ruckus Wireless.
The companies have both successfully delivered managed Wi-Fi solutions to a number of private companies and public sector organizations, from the world’s largest underground Wi-Fi network, huge outdoor metro city networks, railways stations, hospitals, and airports to the largest retail mall venues in the world—a truly global and diversified portfolio of success.
