Ruckus Wireless

Ruckus Wireless | May 30, 2016

Brocade has officially competed its acquisition of Ruckus Wireless, marking a significant step in the company’s strategy to build a pure-play networking company attuned to the needs of the digital age. Under the terms of the agreement, Ruckus stockholders will receive $6.45 in cash and 0.75 shares of Brocade common stock for each share of Ruckus common stock. Based on the closing price of Brocade’s stock on April 1, 2016, the transaction values Ruckus at a price of $14.43 per common share, or ap...

Brocade | July 26, 2016

RUCKUS WIRELESS, INC., now part of Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD), today announced the general availability of Ruckus Cloud Wi-Fi, a wireless local area network (WLAN) management-as-a-service offer powered by the new Ruckus public cloud platform. Ruckus Cloud Wi-Fi enables distributed organizations with limited IT resources to set up, monitor and manage a high-performance multi-site WLAN of any size. Featuring an intuitive, intent-driven user interface for managing some of the industry’s highest p...

SDxCentral | January 15, 2020

IoT and SD-WAN might not sound like they belong together, but ask VMware’s VeloCloud or managed service provider Apcela and you might be surprised by what they have to say. The two companies see SD-WAN as the key to making large IoT deployments manageable at a human scale. Sanjay Uppal, who co-founded VeloCloud and now serves as the head of VMware’s SD-WAN division, said the expanding scope of SD-WAN has opened the door to several applications that the technology wouldn’t norma...

SDxCentral | January 14, 2020

AT&T today announced it has reached an agreement to provide 5G services to the Nellis Air Force Base in southern Nevada. The compound is about a 20-minute drive from the hustle and bustle of the Las Vegas Strip. Personnel at the base will also gain access to FirstNet, a nationwide public safety communications network being built by AT&T with funding from the federal government. The network operator plans to equip the base with 5G infrastructure to support communications among more than 4...