City of San Leandro and Ruckus Wireless Team to Build One of the Most Progressive Public Wi-Fi Networks in the Bay Area

SUNNYVALE and SAN LEANDRO, Calif., July 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Ruckus Wireless, Inc. (NYSE: RKUS) announced today that the City of San Leandro has selected, deployed and standardized a new, free outdoor Smart Wi-Fi service, which is the first of its kind in the Bay Area that is gigabit-capable, leveraging the new 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard. San Leandro becomes the eighth city within the San Francisco Bay Area to have selected Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi as the foundation for their public Wi-Fi network infrastructures.  Other cities include San Jose, San Francisco, Mountain View, Hayward, Redwood City, San Mateo and Belmont, CA.

Able to support thousands of users at connection speeds ranging from 100 megabits per second up to one gigabit per second, San Leandro's new Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi network will initially provide free high-speed wireless Internet access within a four-block radius, including: all of Pelton Plaza and surrounding properties, The Village, Parrott Street (including the Farmers' Market), and parts of Juana Avenue and East 14th Street. Over time, San Leandro plans to build upon the initial installation and expand its free public Wi-Fi coverage to other surrounding areas, including the City-owned Marina Community Center on Wicks Boulevard.

The City of San Leandro launched this public/private partnership to help bring its Wi-Fi network to life. During the deployment over the past year, Ruckus and its integration partner, SmartWAVE Technologies, have been providing Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi equipment and ongoing technical and engineering support to the City's IT Department. This has resulted in the creation of one of the most cutting-edge, free public Wi-Fi services now available in the San Francisco Bay Area, at minimal cost to the City.

"In partnership with Ruckus and SmartWAVE, San Leandro has now delivered a world-class public Wi-Fi service that offers some of the fastest speeds available anywhere within the Bay Area, and we've made it available to the community," said San Leandro Mayor Pauline Russo Cutter.   "Not only has Wi-Fi become an expected utility in this new digital age, it has become an essential tool for economic development for cities everywhere."

"The proliferation of Wi-Fi on all kinds of new smart mobile phones, tablets, sensors and Internet of Things devices is driving incredible new demands for faster and higher capacity Wi-Fi networks across this country and around the world," said Dan Rabinovitsj, Chief Operating Officer at Ruckus Wireless.  "In today's connected world, access to the Internet should be considered an essential service, like water or electricity; and just like water and electricity, it should be available to everyone – regardless of circumstance."

San Leandro's new free public Wi-Fi service is powered by new Ruckus ZoneFlex™ T300 Series outdoor Smart Wi-Fi access points that integrate 802.11ac gigabit Wi-Fi technology, along with a patented adaptive directional antenna system that extends the distance and strength of signals to deliver higher data rates to more users trying to access the network at the same time.  The Ruckus access points are connected via an extensive high-speed fiber optic network operated by Lit San Leandro.

The City of San Leandro, Ruckus and SmartWAVE will publicly launch the new free Wi-Fi Service at a ceremony in Farmer's Market in San Leandro at 6 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, July 29, 2015.

ABOUT SAN LEANDRO One of the most diverse cities in the nation located at the center of the dynamic San Francisco Bay Area, San Leandro is a safe, vibrant community of 87,000 residents with well-maintained neighborhoods, excellent public libraries, twenty-one public parks, quality local schools, and a wide range of shopping, dining, and entertainment options. The western border of the city consists of over eight miles of pristine shoreline and amenities on San Francisco Bay while a regional park and nature areas fall on the eastern border. San Leandro businesses enjoy multiple advantages including close proximity to the Oakland International Airport and Port of Oakland, two major freeways, two BART stations, and access to a large and well-educated workforce. Through a public-private partnership known as Lit San Leandro (www.LitSanLeandro.com), a fiber optic network encircles San Leandro's industrial and commercial core offering businesses virtually unlimited Internet connectivity.

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ABOUT SMARTWAVE TECHNOLOGIES LLCHeadquartered in Atlanta, with project locations throughout the United States, SmartWAVE Technologies is a leading "wireless" centric systems integrator that provides the planning, design, and integration of wireless networks, along with the unique applications these networks support. With an operating legacy of over 12 years, our history is rich with experience in delivering award winning wireless networks and applications. We work in close collaboration with our clients to deliver the strategic insight, proven experience, and practical knowledge necessary to transform their business through wireless. Whether our Clients require the expertise to deploy the network and applications throughout an Enterprise, a Campus, a City, or even a Small Country, our resources have the experience, capabilities and passion for delivery. For more information, visit our website at www.smartwave.us. Catch the Wave!

ABOUT RUCKUS WIRELESSHeadquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, Ruckus Wireless, Inc. (NYSE: RKUS) is a global supplier of advanced wireless systems for the rapidly expanding mobile Internet infrastructure market. The company offers a wide range of indoor and outdoor "Smart WiFi" products to mobile carriers, broadband service providers, and corporate enterprises, and has approximately 52,000 end-customers worldwide. Ruckus technology addresses WiFi capacity and coverage challenges caused by the ever-increasing amount of traffic on wireless networks due to accelerated adoption of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Ruckus invented and has patented state-of-the-art wireless voice, video, and data technology innovations, such as adaptive antenna arrays that extend signal range, increase client data rates, and avoid interference, providing consistent and reliable distribution of delay-sensitive multimedia content and services over standard 802.11 WiFi. For more information, visit http://www.ruckuswireless.com.

Ruckus, Ruckus Wireless, and ZoneFlex are trademarks of Ruckus Wireless, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other product or company names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Media ContactsDavid CallischRuckus Wireless[email protected]408-504-5487

Eric EngelbartAssistant to the City ManagerCity of San Leandro[email protected]510-577-3391

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