I have written several blogs about www.ruckuswireless.com and the aspect of beamforming and what value it brings to the tale. Just want to echo that it is not about the value of perhaps their technology (which it has, “smart beamforming), but it is simply the problem that it solves. Several issues are simply front and center. A long time friend of mine who I worked with at Symbol is now the lead field engineer at www.vocera.com. We both discussed (last year at HIMSS) that he simply “gave up” trying to demo the Vocera application at HIMSS, just because there were so many competing access points and contention in the hallway. Think he told me from the www.airmagnet.com application that there were over 500 AP(s), he saw active. Like the innovative dude he is (was also a drummer in a rock and roll band), he tried Ruckus, voila it worked. The same happened with Siemens earlier this year when they had 32 IPads running running a imaging application in a 22,000 square ft. booth at RSNA. Their imaging application (no doubt PAC images), worked flawlessly. And finally when Steve Jobs was trying to demonstrate the I-Pad/I-Phone earlier this year in front of a huge audience, (another convention hall) the application crashed. Had nothing to do with the application, but traditional WiFi, when you had hundreds of AP(s), contending with each other in a confined space, everything was being brought to it’s knees. (No they did not have Ruckus installed, but you proably know from what company was installed!) So yes beamforming and what they do at Ruckus does work. Think how this will help solve a lot of the multi-path problems with wireless in healthcare!
