Ruckus Beamforming Upgrade

Ruckus will demo a "smart" consumer-level Wi-Fi system based on next-generation 802.11n technology at CES in January. Current products based on draft 802.11n specification allow devices to transmit at speeds greater than 70 Mbps, but they all have problems sustaining the high performance at far distances, challenging locations or in noisy environments. The Ruckus technology is said to reject noise and delivers consistent throughput regardless of location and device placement. "Patent-pending BeamFlex-N is a dynamically-configurable, multi-polarized antenna system capable of forming thousands of unique antenna patterns to reject interference and focus transmit energy in various directions and orientations. BeamFlex-N selects the best antenna configurations for each packet by identifying the optimum path for each transmit radio and steering signals away from obstacles and interference."