Bryan Goldberg, of Global Carrier Solutions at Ruckus Wireless points at a chunk of hardware across the stand, and says: ‘This is Network Functions Virtualization for Wireless LANs. We have taken that box and virtualized it.’ It’s a good way of summarizing Ruckus’s latest offering, its Smart Cell Gateway (SCG), which can manage 10,000 Access Points and control 100,000 concurrent WiFi sessions , running on 12 CPUs, 48Gbps of memory and two Gigabit Ethernet Ports plus some expensive gigabit-class Cavium chips. The simple idea is to connect access points directly to routers, and Goldberg drew a diagram with an Alcatel Lucent 7750 at its heart. Instead of routing all traffic via a Ruckus SCG 200, it instead routed all the…