Ruckus Wireless has unveiled its SmartCell, a heterogeneous small cell wireless edge system that lets operators easily inject wireless capacity, increase coverage and enable new edge services while relieving radio access, backhaul and core infrastructure bottlenecks created by the deluge of data traffic hitting their networks.
Ruckus SmartCell is the first in a new category of small cell systems designed to solve these problems by combining a multi-radio, multi-function access point -- the SmartCell 8800 -- with the small cell HetNet edge services platform, the SmartCell 200 gateway.
The SmartCell system lets operators easily enhance and extend their macro networks with smaller cellular networks that are built as part of an end-to-end solution.
With SmartCell, mobile operators can gain a capacity boost from LTE small cells, cutting costs and complexity by co-locating and combining them with Wi-Fi access points, sharing site-lease agreements and backhaul.