Ruckus Networks, now part of CommScope, announced the immediate availability of the company’s US Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) LTE portfolio. This includes CBRS-band LTE access points and associated cloud services to help organisations deploy private LTE networks for critical applications.
Ruckus said a private LTE network can be deployed as easily as Wi-Fi, in a matter of hours or days, and managed from the cloud. The newly available infrastructure operates in the US CBRS band (3550 – 3700 MHz), which is expected to be made available by the FCC for commercial use in the third quarter of 2019.
Ruckus is a founding member of the CBRS Alliance and Ruckus’ LTE APs are the industry’s first FCC-certified CBRS-band LTE APs. Ruckus said its equipment has been deployed in nearly 50 trials across a wide variety of enterprise verticals as well as with mobile network operators, virtual operators and neutral-host operators.
The portfolio includes the Ruckus Q710, an indoor LTE AP that covers approximately 10,000 square feet; the Ruckus Q410 indoor LTE AP that plugs into Ruckus Wi-Fi APs; and the Ruckus Q910, an outdoor LTE AP that covers approximately the area within a 660-foot city block.
