RUCKUS Networks Marks Tenth Year in Collaboration with the City of San José as It Builds Smart City
RUCKUS Networks delivers reliable, high-speed wireless connectivity throughout the Capital of
“San José’s potential is limitless,” said
Commerce, transportation and community are a few of the elements that contribute to the positive growth of a city, and all require robust wireless connectivity. Today, thanks to several smart city projects, San José residents are never far away from the RUCKUS® technology that connects thousands of people at its schools, convention center, airport and throughout the community.
Closing the “Homework Gap”
With a third of students at the city’s
Today, thousands of low-income students can fully participate in ESUHSD’s digital curriculum. The school and the city have also expanded the program to seven additional high school attendance areas. Altogether, the city deployed more than 900 medium-density APs and an almost equal number of high-density APs throughout school grounds and surrounding neighborhoods.
Community Connectivity
Following the success of the ESUHSD project, the city launched an outdoor network to revitalize businesses and encourage people to visit downtown retailers and restaurants. Part of this effort involved deploying a Wi-Fi network using streetlight poles, traffic lights and city building rooftops for mounting RUCKUS APs. Proactive network optimization and troubleshooting with RUCKUS AI has ensured an uninterrupted Wi-Fi experience for all. Now, this network supports terabytes of data traffic and tens of thousands of community users and generates additional revenue for city services.
Upgrading Wi-Fi for Conventions
Due to increasing demands on Wi-Fi performance for high-density events at the
With high-capacity, reliable Wi-Fi backed by a state-of-the-art wired network, the convention center now provides industry-leading technology to management, exhibitors, and attendees. Moreover, by expanding Wi-Fi coverage throughout adjacent hotels, the City of San José achieved its goal of providing a single, ubiquitous network for the whole area. Following the RUCKUS deployment, the convention center increased technology revenue more than 1,000%, and Team San José, Inc. (an economic development organization and San José's official
Airport Wi-Fi Service
Thanks to an upgrade to RUCKUS Wi-Fi equipment, San José
The airport is outfitted with 189 RUCKUS Wi-Fi 6 indoor and outdoor APs and a RUCKUS SmartZone controller deployed in the cloud for managing the APs. The centrally-managed wired and wireless network with RUCKUS AI provides critical metrics for SJC to make informed operational decisions and ensure high service levels.
“The long-standing collaboration between RUCKUS Networks and the City of San José is a great showcase of our expertise in purpose-driven network infrastructure,” stated
“Lead and never follow is a great representation of how the City of San José operates,” added
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