California, June 2, 2015: Ruckus Wireless, Inc. today announced that it was working with Smartac Group China Holdings Limited (Smartac) to help build the Ruckus Smart WiFi networks covering more than 300 passenger stations for three major railroad systems in China—Beijing, Guangzhou, and Lanzhou.
In a written statement, the company said the ongoing deployment was part of a long-term project to upgrade wireless networks across China’s vast passenger railway transportation system. These Ruckus Smart WiFi networks will not only provide wireless Internet access experience for railway passengers, they will also provide comprehensive, real time passenger data for railway station operators.
The entire project was designed to make China’s railway passenger stations, “Smart stations.” These new stations were part of the emerging global trend to create Smart cities. The concept involved using state-of-the-art communications technology that improved municipal operations and services to enhance the way of life for residents and visitors of major urban centers.
Smartac Group was one of the most experienced ‘new-generation’ mobile Internet gateway providers in China. As one of the largest service providers of wireless networks for China’s railroad passenger stations, Smartac business included 379 of the busiest stations in two municipalities, Beijing and Tianjin.
China has a huge number of daily railway passengers, armed with mobile devices such as smartphones and Tablets, who were demanding demanding free, reliable WiFi service in order to connect to the Internet and perform various tasks.
Smartac has already completed deployment of Ruckus Smart WiFi networks at one Beijing Railway Bureau station, 100 Guangzhou Railway (Group) Corporation stations, and at four Lanzhou Railway Bureau stations, said the press release. Future deployments at 70 additional Guangzhou Railway (Group) Corporation stations were planned next, in addition to more Lanzhou, and Beijing Railway Bureau passenger stations.
According to data from the Guangzhou South Railway Station, during peak hours, the station had approximately 1,300 concurrent users. Highest data usage had been measured at up to 36 Gbps per hour, which has reached 2.2 Terabytes in 24 hours.
In addition to these ongoing deployments with Smartac, Ruckus had helped successfully build Smart WiFi networks for eight passenger railway stations within Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing and Hefei run by the Shanghai Railway Bureau. Ruckus is quite an experienced player in China; it had also helped to deploy the Smart WiFi networks for China’s two largest airports—the Beijing Capital International Airport and the Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport.
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, Ruckus Wireless, Inc. was 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 claims to have approximately 52,000 end-customers worldwide.
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