Ruckus Wireless Unveils First Video-Grade USB Wireless Adapter, Announces Successful Integration and Interoperability with Motorola IPTV Set-Top

Ruckus Wireless Unveils First Video-Grade USB Wireless Adapter, Announces Successful Integration and Interoperability with Motorola IPTV Set-Top

Ruckus Wireless today introduced a unique, miniaturized wireless multimedia adapter, the MediaFlex USB Dongle designed to provide stable, wireless connectivity to in-home multimedia devices such as set-tops and media center systems. At the 2007 International CES, the company will demonstrate the first successful integration of this new technology with an IPTV set-top from industry-leader Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT).

The Ruckus MediaFlex Dongle is an external smart Wi-Fi® client adapter in an elegant and small form factor. Specifically developed to fill a need in the home networking market for a low-cost, video-grade client adapter, the device uses the popular Universal Serial Bus (USB) to interface with set top boxes, media center systems and other multimedia devices – giving broadband providers, for the first time, the ultimate in price/performance for enabling low-cost, high value 802.11b/g access.

Further, unlike other USB Wi-Fi adapters, the Ruckus MediaFlex USB Dongle is the only video-grade wireless USB adapter on the market to leverage patent-pending BeamFlex™ smart antenna technology. “Now that we have proven smart Wi-Fi technology delivers dramatic improvements for supporting multimedia and extending range, the next step is to cost reduce and miniaturize the technology to make it even simpler and more flexible,” said Selina Lo, president and CEO of Ruckus Wireless. “And our integration with Motorola marks yet another milestone for bringing the next stage of wireless multimedia connectivity to carriers and their customers.”

The Motorola VIP1720 is the first IPTV set-top to successfully integrate with the Ruckus MediaFlex Dongle. The VIP1720 hybrid set-top integrates IPTV and DVB-T broadcast support into a single device, and supports MPEG-2, MPEG-4/AVC, and VC1 video codecs. At CES, the companies will demonstrate three MPEG-2 streams multicast over standard 802.11g wireless network, from a single Ruckus MediaFlex router to different Ruckus MediaFlex Dongles connected to the Motorola VIP1720.

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