Ruckus Wireless Recognizes Highest Achieving Reseller Partners at Annual BIG DOGS Conference

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Ruckus Wireless announced today the recipients of its BIG DOGS Partner Awards, which were granted at the company's annual BIG DOGS Partner Conference, which took place October 6 and 7, 2011, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Through its BIG DOGS awards program, the Smart Wi-Fi innovator recognizes the reseller and integration partners whose efforts have contributed most significantly to the broad adoption of Smart Wi-Fi products and technology across various sectors, including education, healthcare, hospitality, and the enterprise. Ruckus, which effectively doubled its global channel base over the last 12 months, now has over 3,500 BIG DOG partners and 10,000 customers around the world, according to Ron Gill, vice president of North American sales for Ruckus Wireless.

"For the past few years Ruckus has been in a rapid growth phase. As one of the newest entrants in the enterprise wireless LAN market, we were recently propelled into the top five WLAN global suppliers," said Gill. "Given that we're the only pure-play Wi-Fi supplier that sells entirely through the channel, we can directly credit our channel partners for driving this growth."

This year's awards honored eight U.S.-based solutions providers that made the most significant contributions in expanding Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi products within select U.S. vertical markets, including:

• Hospitality Partner of the Year: SuperClick
• Hospitality (newcomer) Partner of the Year: GuestTek
• MDU Partner of the Year: Pavlov Media
• Enterprise Partner of the Year: Convergence Technologies, Inc.
• Healthcare Partner of the Year: SmartWAVE Technologies
• Education Partner of the Year: Netvad, Inc.
• Education (South America) Partner of the Year: Arkavia Networks, Inc.
• Specialty Partner of the Year: Access Networks

The award selections were based on a variety of criteria such as number of deals and scope of deployments for which the partner was directly responsible, as well as their general participation in the Ruckus BIG DOGS program.

Over the past year Ruckus has expanded and strengthened its BIG DOGS partner program, broadening the content and materials available to channel partners to help them solve organizations' growing wireless networking challenges with the Ruckus ZoneFlex Smart Wireless LAN system.

With the dramatic rise in wireless-only mobile devices being used on corporate networks, more businesses are turning to the Ruckus ZoneFlex system to meet the capacity and performance challenges required in the Mobile Internet age.

Since the beginning of 2011 Ruckus has added over 1,800 new resellers and integrators around the world.  In North America, more than 1,300 value-added solutions providers are now reselling Ruckus ZoneFlex products.

About Ruckus Wireless, Inc.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Ruckus Wireless is a supplier of advanced wireless systems for the mobile networking market. The company markets and manufactures a wide range of indoor and outdoor "Smart Wi-Fi" products for mobile operators, broadband service providers and corporate enterprises. Ranked as the top telecom company in the 2009 Inc. Magazine 500 list and named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, Ruckus Wireless has realized dramatic growth. With more than 25 patents granted to date, Ruckus invented state-of-the-art wireless technology that focuses and directs signals over the best performing paths, automatically adapting them to changing environmental conditions. This unique capability extends signal range and ensures consistent reliable distribution of delay-sensitive multimedia content and services over standard 802.11 Wi-Fi. The company has raised $51 million in funding from premier investors such as Sequoia Capital, Focus Ventures, Sutter Hill, Motorola, T–Ventures, Telus Ventures and Firelake Capital. The company is led by Ms. Selina Lo, president and chief executive officer. For more information, visit Ruckus Wireless at http://www.ruckuswireless.com.

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