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CommScope advances cloudmanaged
networking with AIenabled
RUCKUS Cloud
CommScope has announced RUCKUS
Cloud, an AI-enabled network
management as-a-Service platform,
which enables enterprise IT and managed
service providers (MSPs) to easily manage
a converged wired and wireless network.
Aided by Machine Learning (ML) and
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and built on a
programmable microservices foundation,
RUCKUS Cloud merges single pane
management with network visibility and
service assurance. This allows IT teams to
troubleshoot faster and proactively improve
the user experience.
According to market research firm, Omdia,
the cloud-managed networking market is
growing at a compound annual growth
rate of 28.7%, with equipment revenues
forecasted at US$5.5 billion and Softwareas-a-Service
revenues forecasted at
US$1.8 billion by 2023. Overall, public
cloud-managed networking deployments will
account for 14% of enterprise networking
revenue by 2023, and in the Wi-Fi segment,
nearly a quarter of the installed base of
access points will be managed through a
public cloud platform.
“Networks are changing rapidly, with
accelerating growth in users, network
elements, devices and device diversity that’s
driving a new level of network complexity,
making it difficult for IT organisations to
keep up,” said Matthias Machowinski, Omdia
Senior Research Director, Enterprise Networks.
“Modern cloud-managed networking and ML/
AI-based assurance tools provide automation
and in-depth network insights, promising to
give control back to the IT organisation and
deliver greater efficiency.”
The RUCKUS Cloud platform is built
using a microservices-based, controllerin-the-cloud
architecture that ensures full
programmability, scalability, high availability
and rapid fix and feature rollout.
“Enterprise IT operations and managed
service providers can realise significant
efficiency and user experience gains,” said
Pramod Badjate, Senior Vice President and
General Manager for CommScope’s RUCKUS
portfolio. “These gains will continue to accrue
as we introduce new ML and AI capabilities
that will, over time, make the network more
autonomous and self-healing.”
RUCKUS Cloud is a foundational element
of CommScope’s vision for the enterprise
in which every element of the distributed
connectivity and power delivery fabric is
monitored by a single analytics engine and
managed from a single, cloud-based console.
CommScope uniquely offers every element
of this fabric, including Wi-Fi and switching,
copper and fibre structured cabling and inbuilding
cellular connectivity.
CommScope customers are saying the
following: “RUCKUS Cloud is a simple and
easy-to-use product that makes network
management painless for any network
admin,” said Kyle Thompson, Account
Manager, Pine Cove Consulting. “Combined
with reliable RUCKUS hardware, it lets
administrators quickly and easily deploy
networks with minimal intervention. If
intervention is needed, the integral service
assurance features let administrators know
where the trouble lies and what’s causing
it, avoiding unnecessary steps in the
troubleshooting process.”
Tyler Faria, Technology Director at Westside
Church, said: “We installed RUCKUS Cloud
right before the pandemic. With shelterin-place,
our operating model changed
overnight from live events at multiple sites,
to live-streaming simultaneous HD camera
feeds to hundreds of members.
“Our previous network couldn’t even handle
the connections, and I had to send someone
to each site in order to make network
changes. Now, we manage multiple networks
from one interface, remotely – even during
live-streaming events – and a single Wi-Fi 6
AP at each site handles those video streams.
We spend no time travelling to multiple sites
and far less time managing what is now one
network. And we do far more with the time
we do spend.” •
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