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Lamar University Causing a Ruckus on Campus with New Ultra Fast 802.11ac Smart Wi-Fi Infrastructure

Thousands of Students, Faculty and Staff Will Enjoy Super High Speed Wireless Access Across a 270-Acre Campus, Enhancing the Educational Experience

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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Ruckus Wireless, Inc. (NYSE: RKUS) today announced that Lamar University, a member of the Texas State University System, and one of the fastest growing universities in Texas, has selected Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi products and technology for a massive campus-wide Wi-Fi infrastructure upgrade that brings reliable, super high speed wireless connectivity to thousands of students, faculty, staff and visitors.

Lamar University Gets Smart About Wi-Fi Priscilla Parsons, CIO and Patrick Stewart, VP of Information Technology at Lamar University, located in Beaumont, TX, discuss the growing importance of Wi-Fi and wireless communications within the changing higher education market, and how Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi is helping them succeed.
Lamar University Gets Smart About Wi-Fi Priscilla Parsons, CIO and Patrick Stewart, VP of Information Technology at Lamar University, located in Beaumont, TX, discuss the growing importance of Wi-Fi and wireless communications within the changing higher education market, and how Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi is helping them succeed.

Lamar's Smart Wi-Fi infrastructure is based on the new 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard and will provide pervasive coverage and gigabit-class performance to nearly 15,000 users across some 64 buildings and outdoor green spaces within Lamar's 270-acre campus. 

The new 802.11ac Wi-Fi network is enabling Lamar University to securely connect tens of thousands of mobile and wireless devices being used on campus, while allowing university faculty to incorporate a wide range of education technologies and enhanced collaboration into their academic programs.

"It has become very clear that our faculty and students want to infuse the use of technology into the educational learning experience and better Wi-Fi was at the top of the list," said Pricilla Parsons, vice president of Information Technology at Lamar University. "Our users needed faster and more stable access to coursework, e-books, video and other digital curriculum tools that enrich the educational process, and our existing wireless network simply couldn't support the new levels of technology being put in place."

It is widely understood that the quality of the student computing experience has become an important decision factor for students in selecting a college.  In the 2014 Campus Computing Survey, the largest continuing study of the role of computing and information technology in American higher education, senior IT officers identified "implementing and supporting mobile computing" as the top IT priority, while only 17 percent rate mobile services at their institution as "excellent."

"Given today's higher education environment, having a carrier-class Wi-Fi infrastructure is an indispensable tool for delivering a 21st century education and is also critical for recruiting a new generation of tech savvy students that now expect a world-class online experience," said Parsons. "From an IT perspective, our focus has always been to deploy the right technology, for the right purpose, at the right price. The innovations Ruckus has made to transform Wi-Fi from a technology of convenience into a reliable utility is helping us achieve this vision."

According to Lamar's IT staff, the ability to deliver reliable and robust Wi-Fi connectivity across the campus has been challenging, given the diverse make up of buildings on campus. That diversity includes everything from laboratories and large high-capacity auditoriums, theaters and classrooms, to soundproofed music halls and older historic cinder block and concrete structures.

"Lamar has a mixture of almost every environment you can imagine, so getting Wi-Fi to work and work well on such a large scale has been a daunting task," said Patrick Stewart, director of IT Computing Infrastructure at Lamar University. "The challenge we have now is to deliver the Wi-Fi density, connectivity and coverage required to adequately accommodate the multiplicity of smart mobile devices and online applications that students are using, virtually everywhere, on campus."

Enter Pervasive Performance Across Campus with Smarter Wi-Fi

Lamar has seen the number of wireless users and devices on the network more than double over the last year. Its legacy network has struggled to support the higher densities and deliver the reliable connectivity and pervasive performance required by a growing population of sophisticated users now armed with multiple Wi-Fi devices. 

"Our students' personal devices are ubiquitous across campus, and if we aren't able to participate in our students' normal day-to-day lives with the technology they bring to bear, then we are going to be excluded from some very important engagement opportunities with them," Parsons said.

Consequently, Lamar is replacing its legacy, campus-wide network with indoor and outdoor Ruckus ZoneFlex™ Smart Wi-Fi 802.11ac access points (APs) across its entire campus. The APs are uniformly and centrally managed through redundant Ruckus ZoneDirector™ 5000 controllers within Lamar's data center.  In addition, to better understand Wi-Fi usage and historical trends, Lamar has also deployed the Ruckus SmartCell™ Insight (SCI) platform to collect, analyze, parse, present, and store Wi-Fi data such as user traffic volumes, throughput, estimates of clients, access point and client traffic, and session information for years.

Lamar is also making use of Ruckus ZoneFlex 7731 long-range, 5 GHz Smart Wi-Fi point-to-point and point-to-multipoint bridges to deliver broadband bandwidth to buildings and strategic locations where running fiber was either not feasible and/or cost-prohibitive.

Lamar's new Smart Wi-Fi infrastructure is supporting a myriad of applications such as its Blackboard learning management system, wireless access to data projectors, guest access, and IP-based video security cameras in parking lots, as well as innovative in-class applications that increase student engagement.

Looking forward, Lamar sees more growth in the number and sophistication of mobile devices used on its new Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi infrastructure and is now well prepared to handle these new developments.

"With innovations like connected watches and other Wi-Fi wearables coming to market we must be able to easily scale capacity, coverage, and performance all at once," concluded Stewart. "We've actually seen concurrent client connections on a single Ruckus access point peak to 450 simultaneous users, as opposed to the legacy 50 to 70 users. This amazed us and gave us confidence that we are now poised to keep pace with the explosive demand for fast and reliable wireless connectivity anytime, anywhere."

ABOUT LAMAR UNIVERSITY
Founded in 1923, Lamar University is a doctoral research university dedicated to providing a learning environment of the highest quality. Located in Beaumont, Texas and home to nearly 15,000 students, Lamar University is one of the fastest growing universities in the state and is a member of the Texas State University System. LU offers more than 100 programs of study leading to bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees. The 270-acre campus is approximately 90 miles east of Houston. LU has been nationally recognized for the quality of its core curriculum and is one of the most ethnically and economically diverse university's in the U.S. Lamar was ranked 11th nationally for return on investment for engineering majors, and was ranked 49 out of 539 universities for Social Mobility by helping disadvantaged students graduate with the ability to start a career without excessive debt. To learn more visit: http://www.lamar.edu.

ABOUT RUCKUS WIRELESS
Headquartered 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 Wi-Fi" products to mobile carriers, broadband service providers, and corporate enterprises, and has over 44,000 end-customers worldwide. Ruckus technology addresses Wi-Fi 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 Wi-Fi. For more information, visit http://www.ruckuswireless.com.

Ruckus, Ruckus Wireless, SmartCell, ZoneDirector, 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.

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Mark Priscaro
Ruckus Wireless
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Brian Sattler
Lamar University
[email protected]
409-880-8396

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