SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Ruckus Wireless today announced that Atlantic Aviation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Macquarie Infrastructure Company,has selected and deployed its Smart Wi-Fi products and technology at the company's 65 fixed base operations (FBOs) at general aviation airports across the United States. Based in Plano, Texas, Atlantic Aviation operates the largest network of FBOs in the country.

The new Wi-Fi infrastructure was built to provide high-capacity, high-performance Wi-Fi to users of its FBOs, including pilots, private aircraft users and visitors.

Atlantic Aviation provides a variety of aviation services to its FBO locations such as concierge services for private aircraft owners and pilots, as well as luggage handling, fueling, and food service. Because its clients are primarily business executives and high-worth individuals, Atlantic Aviation required reliable, high-performance Wi-Fi for guest access as well as to streamline the efficiency of its operations.

"Our clientele is demanding and expects both quality and speed when it comes to pretty much everything. Wi-Fi is no different," said Joel Collins, project management office manager for Atlantic Aviation. "Wi-Fi access is an essential part of using our operations especially since private aircraft owners and their guests carry multiple wireless-only devices when they're at one of our locations.

"We'd had nothing but problems with Wi-Fi for years, and it had become the number one complaint we were receiving," continued Collins. "The challenge was how to implement consistently high-quality Wi-Fi across all of our locations and also provide coverage outdoors on the actual runways without placing too many demands on IT staff at our headquarters."

Atlantic Aviation Gets Its Wings with Smart Wi-Fi

The company's previous Wi-Fi infrastructure was mediocre at best, according to Collins. "The technology was inconsistent from location to location, which caused performance issues at nearly all of the sites and made it difficult to manage."

After a rigorous RFP process, Collins' team chose Blueprint RF to install and manage the network. Blueprint RF's proposal was for an upgrade to a higher performance, high-capacity network powered by Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi technology and products. Blueprint RF handled the deployment and now manages Atlantic Aviation's Wi-Fi infrastructure.

"Given the compelling price/performance and range of coverage Ruckus delivers, there's wasn't a lot of debate," said Ron Peterson, Blueprint RF CEO. "Because of the ever-changing nature of the environment at every FBO site, Ruckus' adaptive antenna technology was the best to address Atlantic Aviation's needs. The performance is very impressive."

Built with its patented adaptive antenna array, the Ruckus ZoneFlex system is designed to overcome the physical and technical challenges of delivering high-capacity, high-performance access to indoor and outdoor areas which are prone to interference or which pose physical barriers to signal penetration for seamless connections. By focusing and directing Wi-Fi signals over the best signal path, the ZoneFlex system is the only one on the market that automatically avoids interference to ensure consistent performance and high throughput.

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Atlantic Aviation Upgrades to Higher Performance Wi-Fi at General Aviation Airports Across the United States