Mumbai Airport Gets Wi-Fi Makeover
Posted by- Neelam Mathews July 11, 2011 YOU Broadband has selected and deployed Ruckus ZoneFlex 802.11n system as a managed Wi-Fi service offering within Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA). Forecasts for India project that mobile-only data users will increase from 3.8 million in 2011 to over 308 million by 2015, according to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index Report on Global Mobile Data. “We must follow the habits of our customers who are now on the move with multiple wireless devices in their hands. The only way to do that is to combine reliable wireless access with very high quality fixed line assets. Our partnership with Ruckus is essential to enabling this strategy,” said EVS Chakravarthy, Managing Director and CEO of YOU Broadband. YOU Broadband is initially offering free multimegabit Wi-Fi services to passengers that transit the airport every year. CSIA operates five terminals over an operational area of 1,450 acres (5.9 km2) – handling over 29...