Cisco Service Provider Wifi
Service provider Wi-Fi is big business, and it is growing at a rate of around 7% year-on-year due to providers using it to differentiate their own offerings from rivals. The market reached over $1 billion in Q2 2014 and will rise further in the coming years as mobile operators increasingly use Wi-Fi to offload data traffic from their cellular networks.Most vendors of WLAN equipment are in fierce competition with one another; despite none coming close to toppling Cisco. Ruckus Wireless, however, is the underdog which has pulled from the rest of the pack and made impressive gains to become the company's biggest challenger.Ruckus approach to on-antenna beamforming could prove revolutionary in inspiring the next wave of wireless networking designs.Cisco remains the leader by a significant margin – with a marketshare of 52% – but the networking giant has lost some of its ground where Ruckus has gained its footing, by Synergy. Cisco is followed by Ruckus, who holds a marketshare around 20%, and then it's a close fight at around 3 - 10% marketshare each between Aruba, Alcatel-Lucent, HP, and Motorola (in descending order.)“Overall growth rates for SP Wi-Fi have tailed off a bit and not sustained the levels that some were expecting” said John Dinsdale, a Chief Analyst and Research Director at Synergy Research Group. “Nonetheless the market is still experiencing strong double-digit growth rates on a rolling annualized basis and I do expect to see future growth rates kick upwards again.”Service provider Wi-Fi is accountable for a much-greater share of Ruckus' revenues than it is for the company's other main competitors.
In an conducted by Tom's Hardware, Ruckus Wireless' ZoneFlex 802.11n Smart WLAN solution defeated both Cisco and Aruba in a variety of range and performance tests across five different locations with throughput gains ranging from 36 - 180 Mbps over equivalent WLAN systems from Cisco and Aruba.The testing included, for the first time, a review of Cisco’s newest chip-based beamforming technology. According to Tom’s Hardware, “The future of video-capable Wi-Fi depends on a directional signal-boosting technique called beamforming. The Ruckus approach to on-antenna beamforming could prove revolutionary in inspiring the next wave of wireless networking designs.”Do you think Ruckus Wireless could topple Cisco in service provider Wi-Fi? Let us know in the comments. Related Stories. ».
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I had some free time this afternoon taking a break from emails and such and came across this Breakout Session BRKSPM-2006 from Cisco Live 2014.Its goes over the details on how Service Providers are providing Cloud Based Wireless Services.In summary the Client Access Point would be deployed in Flex Connect mode at the Subscriber location. Then the CAPWAP traffic back-hauled to a vWLC that exist in a Customer Service Instance. Also included in the Service Instance would be a Client Access DHCP Server, Web Portal, MSE, and any client specific DNS Services.