Commscope should have saved millions

Instead of buying Arris just to acquire Ruckus, they could have paid Broadcom or Qualcomm to help them develop their own WiFi access point.

It would have saved Commscope millions.

The Ruckus Cloud is just the Ruckus SmartZone software running in a container, on a cloud service. There is really nothing magical there, but they (Commscope) had to pay out the a$$ for it after Arris outbid them... They went and paid double for Ruckus (a marginal company at best).

Ruckus biggest vertical is hotel chains, which are mostly empty.

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What they didn’t know is that Ruckus wifi is the worst of Cisco / HP / etc.

They probably wanted Ruckus for OnGo band 43/48. Which I don’t think was very smart either.

But as anyone in the wireless business knows that they Ruckus never did get many OnGo customers.

So they laid off the entire team and outsourced them to India in the hopes to sell Ruckus OnGo in the near future.

Waste of money to buy cr-p and flush it. Would have been better to let someone else buy it?

Ruckus spent years developing another crappie product only to lay off more people.

They didn’t even make a home version of OnGo, like equivalent to the Ruckus 300 wifi access point.

A quick look at their website showed nothing of interest in wireless.

A has-been in wireless, a company who offers wireless products after the competition, but with fewer features and competitive high costs.

I’m not sure what ever happened. They used to be an up and comer.

All bark? An awful lot of noise just to get bought and lay everyone off?

Oh well, at least they tried.

I can't help but wonder if Commscope has any business in wifi?

Maybe they would have been better off sticking with 100mbps fiber cables and 3g antenna towers?

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