{"id":7629,"date":"2014-05-23T07:57:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T11:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=7629"},"modified":"2014-05-23T07:57:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T11:57:58","slug":"google-plans-global-wi-fi-in-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/google-plans-global-wi-fi-in-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Plans Global Wi-Fi in the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<header style=\"color: #302c22;\">\n<blockquote>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"font-weight: 800; font-style: inherit;\">Google is working with Ruckus Wireless to build a Wi-Fi network in the cloud<\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/header>\n<section style=\"color: #302c22;\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">\n<div style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">\n<section class=\"body entry-content\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">\n<div id=\"post-content-843984\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Google is working with Wi-Fi equipment maker\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/gigaom.com\/2012\/11\/16\/wi-fi-networker-ruckus-raises-126-million-in-ipo\/\">Ruckus Wireless<\/a>\u00a0to build a large-scale Wi-Fi network in the cloud off of which any business could hang its wireless routers, according to a source\u00a0familiar with the project who asked not to be named.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Google\u2019s plans to\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #990000;\" href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2014\/05\/21\/google-reportedly-plans-to-target-businesses-with-wi-fi\/\">supply Wi-Fi services to small and medium-sized businesses<\/a>\u00a0was first\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/Google-Preps-Plan-to-Offer-Business-WiFi-Networks\">reported by The Information<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday. But I have gotten more details on what its network would look like and how it would be rolled out. Google has been working closely with Ruckus, trialing a new\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #990000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ruckuswireless.com\/products\/smart-wireless-services\/vscg\">software-based wireless controller<\/a>\u00a0that virtualizes the management functions of the Wi-Fi network\u00a0in the cloud, according to my source.\u00a0The end result would\u00a0be a nationwide \u2014 or even global \u2014 network that any business could join and any Google customer could access.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2014\/05\/22\/google-is-working-with-ruckus-wireless-to-build-a-wi-fi-network-in-the-cloud\/?utm_source=digg&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\">SOURCE: GIGAOM<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is working with Ruckus Wireless to build a Wi-Fi network in the cloud Google is working with Wi-Fi equipment maker\u00a0Ruckus Wireless\u00a0to build a large-scale Wi-Fi network in the cloud off of which any business could hang its wireless routers, according to a source\u00a0familiar with the project who asked not to be named. Google\u2019s plans to\u00a0supply Wi-Fi services\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/google-plans-global-wi-fi-in-the-cloud\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1433,1426],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7630,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7629\/revisions\/7630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}