LodgeNet Certifies Ruckus ZoneFlex Smart WLAN System for Next Gen Wi-Fi Deployment

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Offers Hotel Customers Higher Speed 802.11 Smart Wi-Fi Systems That Deliver Better Range and Reliability – Both Indoors and Out

SUNNYVALE, CA, November 10, 2008 – Ruckus Wireless™ today announced that it has been selected by LodgeNet Interactive Corporation (NASDAQ: LNET), the leading provider of media and connectivity solutions to hospitality and healthcare businesses, to supply advanced 802.11 Smart Wireless LAN system to support next generation Wi-Fi deployments.

Considered one of the foremost experts at integrating and implementing advanced consumer-facing media and connectivity technology with a focus on keeping the end-consumer connected, informed and entertained, LodgeNet serves over 1.9 million hotel rooms representing 10,000 hotels properties around the world. Today, LodgeNet provides more than 225,000 hotel rooms with broadband solutions.

LodgeNet’s requirements for an advanced Wi-Fi system have been driven by customer demand for a more adaptive solution that extends signal range with fewer APs, delivers higher performance and offers flexible deployment options such as the ability to eliminate running Ethernet cabling to every Wi-Fi access point.

“We’ve seen a growing demand from our customers for more innovative, effective and reliable ways to offer Wi-Fi services and applications,” said David Bankers, Chief Technical Officer at LodgeNet. “With the proliferation of Wi-Fi-enabled devices of all shapes and sizes coupled with increasingly sophisticated IP-based applications such as voice and Internet video, hotels and their guests want Wi-Fi everywhere. But beyond ubiquitous access, customers want Wi-Fi to function as a reliable utility. Ruckus Wireless products and technology have been purposely designed to meet and exceed these requirements.”

Ruckus will supply LodgeNet with its ZoneFlex Smart Wireless LAN system including Smart Wi-Fi access points, Smart Wireless LAN controllers and advanced Wi-Fi management software.

Smarter Wi-Fi for Hotels

Representing the next phase of Wi-Fi technology innovation, Smart Wi-Fi combines state-of-the art advances in RF signal routing, smart Wi-Fi meshing, advanced user security and quality of service. The combination of these technologies enables a new class of Wi-Fi system that can automatically adapt to changing environmental conditions by focusing signals farther and only where they are needed while steering them around obstacles and interference as it is experienced.

“LodgeNet has always taken a leading view on delivering advanced connectivity solutions to its customers,” said Selina Lo, president and CEO of Ruckus Wireless. “We believe our partnership with LodgeNet will begin to redefine both the economics and quality of Wi-Fi with the hospitality industry – raising the bar for the entire industry.”

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