Technical Documents
Deployment Guide: The MAC Randomization Challenge and Proposed Solutions
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Ruckus Technical Family (RTF) Documents
Tech Tips and Best Practice Guides for: Client Behavior
Tech Tips and Best Practice Guides for: Cloudpath
Tech Tips and Best Practice Guides for: SmartZone
Tech Tips and Best Practice Guides for: ZoneDirector
Cloudpath ES Highlights
- Automated onboarding for all users, including employees, guests, and contractors
- Intuitive workflow engine for comprehensive policy-driven access
- Distributes unique certificate per device based on policies
- Built-in certificate infrastructure and RADIUS server
- Automates EAP-TLS, the WPA2-Enterprise gold standard
- Supports guest use cases, including sponsorship
- Differentiates between IT-owned and personal devices
- Provides visibility into users, devices, and policies
- Integrates with Microsoft Active Directory and Certificate Services
- Integrates with external LDAP and RADIUS servers
- Integrates with your existing WLAN
Cloudpath ES is deployable on-premise as a VMware server(s) or is available as a cloud service to make a powerful addition to existing ZoneDirector and SmartZone platforms.
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RUCKUS Cloud service is phased out and replaced by our new flagship platform called RUCKUS One. For more information, please visit the RUCKUS One Product Page.
RUCKUS Unleashed is a premium standalone network management solution for residential and small business networks. Optimized for audio and video streams, the Unleashed provides the easy onboarding audio-visual setups for conferencing, and high quality video streaming.
RUCKUS Unleashed is highly reliable, easy to use and affordable. With embedded controller functionality, there’s no need to invest in a separate appliance. Patented radio technologies and dedicated traffic management monitor and optimize your network all the time. You can manage your entire network with your Unleashed mobile app or Unleashed Portal anywhere with no complicated firewall setup, free of charge.
RUCKUS Unleashed Wi-Fi makes business running easy. Automatic and dynamic radio and network features such as BeamFlex+™, ChannelFly™ and SmartMesh™, Unleashed Wi-Fi dynamically manages your network. No daily reboot required. RUCKUS Unleashed AV profile enables the AV professional to setup the network without going through tedious network configurations.
RUCKUS Unleashed is an enterprise-class network. The redundancy master design and automatic master migration guarantees the network is running and managed all the time. Dedicated traffic control features like application aware traffic control, Wi-Fi Calling handling, SmartCast media traffic management makes silky smooth traffic controls for the customers. NO IT certificate-based authentication simplifies the authentication process.
The Unleashed Remote Management Services, RMS, is a premium version of Unleashed Portal remote access. The RMS smooths the onboarding and management of multiple installations like a charm. Service providers can deploy, oversee, backup and upgrade all the networks remotely from your service center without sending truckloads.
RUCKUS Unleashed APs and switches deliver all of this and more at an affordable price. And if your business grows and you need to move to a controller- or cloud-based infrastructure, you can—without having to overhaul your infrastructure. Migrate to RUCKUS SmartZone™ Controllers or RUCKUS One cloud service down the road—using the same Unleashed APs.
SmartZone™ 100 (SZ-100) is the most scalable, resilient, and highest performing Wireless LAN controller within the Ruckus family of WLAN controllers for enterprises around the world. It manages up to 1,024 ZoneFlex Smart Wi-Fi access points, 2,000 WLANs, and 25,000 clients per device. Its unique SmartZone architecture allows the SZ-100 to be deployed in a 3+1 Active-Active cluster. With Active-Active clustering all members (up to 4) of a cluster will actively manage APs in the network, providing enhanced resiliency for high availability requirements. With clustering, the SZ-100 can manage up to 3,000 APs and 60,000 clients.
Smart licensing allows customers to manage all licensing needs online at https://support.ruckuswireless.com. With Smart licensing, customers have the ability to buy and assign licenses at a granular level down to 1 (one) AP license.
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SmartZone™ 144 (SZ-144) is the next-generation high performing Wireless LAN controller within the RUCKUS family of WLAN controllers for enterprises around the world. It manages up to 2000 RUCKUS Wi-Fi access points or 400 switches, and 40,000 clients per controller. Its unique SmartZone architecture allows the SZ-144 to be deployed in a 3+1 Active-Active cluster. With Active-Active clustering all members (up to 4) of a cluster will actively manage APs and switches in the network, providing enhanced resiliency for high availability requirements. With clustering, the SZ-144 can manage up to 6,000APs, 1200 switches and 120,000 clients.
Smart licensing allows customers to manage all licensing needs online at https://support.ruckuswireless.com. With Smart licensing, customers have the ability to buy and assign licenses at a granular level down to 1 (one) AP license.
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SmartZone™ 144 (SZ-144) is the next-generation high performing Wireless LAN controller within the Ruckus family of WLAN controllers for enterprises around the world. It manages up to 2000 Commscope Wi-Fi access points, 400 switches,and 40,000 clients per controller. Its unique SmartZone architecture allows the SZ-144 to be deployed in a 3+1 Active-Active cluster. With Active-Active clustering all members (up to 4) of a cluster will actively manage APs and switches in the network, providing enhanced resiliency for high availability requirements. With clustering, the SZ-144 can manage up to 6,000APs, 1200 switches and 120,000 clients.
Smart licensing allows customers to manage all licensing needs online at https://support.ruckuswireless.com. With Smart licensing, customers have the ability to buy and assign licenses ata granular level down to 1 (one) AP license.
The SmartZone 300 (SZ300) Flagship Large Scale WLAN Controller is designed for Service Provider and Large Enterprises, which prefer to use appliances. The Carrier Grade platform supports N+1 Active/Active clustering, comprehensive integrated management functionality, high performance operations and flexibility to address many different implementation scenarios.
The SZ300 supports up to 10,000 AP and 100,000 Clients per unit and 30,000 AP and 300,000 Clients per 3+1 Active/Active Cluster, and runs SmartZone 3.5+ release firmware.
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The SmartZone 300 (SZ300) Flagship Large Scale WLAN Controller is designed for Service Provider and Large Enterprises, which prefer to use appliances. The Carrier Grade platform supports N+1 Active/Active clustering, comprehensive integrated management functionality, high performance operations and flexibility to address many different implementation scenarios.
The SZ300 supports up to 10,000 AP and 100,000 Clients per unit and 30,000 AP and 300,000 Clients per 3+1 Active/Active Cluster, and runs SmartZone 3.5+ release firmware.
Note: The Virtual SmartCell Gateway (vSCG) has a new name: Virtual SmartZone (vSZ). Same product, new name.
The Ruckus Virtual SmartZone (vSZ) is an NFV-based and cloud-ready WLAN controller for service providers and enterprises ready to elevate their WLAN deployment to the next level of flexibility, resiliency, andscale. vSZ operates in two modes: Essentials and High-Capacity.
Enterprises will find that the Essentials mode (vSZ-E) delivers world-beating Wi-Fi performance in an incredibly easy to manage and cost-effective package that’s friendly to both virtualized and/or distributed environments.
Managed Service Providers deploying the High-Capacity mode (vSZ-H) in their data center will experience a scalable carrier-class Wi-Fi rollout brimming with unique service provider features ready to back up their service level agreements.
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Note: The Virtual SmartCell Gateway (vSCG) has a new name: Virtual SmartZone (vSZ). Same product, new name.
The Ruckus Virtual SmartZone (vSZ) is an NFV-based and cloud-ready WLAN controller for service providers and enterprises ready to elevate their WLAN deployment to the next level of flexibility, resiliency, andscale. vSZ operates in two modes: Essentials and High-Capacity.
Enterprises will find that the Essentials mode (vSZ-E) delivers world-beating Wi-Fi performance in an incredibly easy to manage and cost-effective package that’s friendly to both virtualized and/or distributed environments.
Managed Service Providers deploying the High-Capacity mode (vSZ-H) in their data center will experience a scalable carrier-class Wi-Fi rollout brimming with unique service provider features ready to back up their service level agreements.
With simplicity and ease of use in mind, the RuckusZoneDirector 1200 is purpose-built to address the gap between standalone, feature-deficient access points (APs) that must be individually managed and the costly, complex high-end enterprise systems that are overkill for most small business environments.
The Ruckus ZoneDirector 1200 can be deployed and operated by non-wireless experts and installed quickly and easily. Any organization with limited IT staff and budget can create a robust and secure multimedia WLAN in a matter of minutes.
This controller is focused on small to medium enterprise business, which scales up to 150 AP’s, 4,000 client devices, and 256 WLANs. The ZD 1200 works with the ZoneFlex AP’s to deliver a highly reliable and easy to manage Wi-Fi network. The pay as you grow licensing system allows you to start with a standard license for 5 AP’s and grow to a maximum of 150 AP’s with a granularity of one AP license.
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