Digital lifestyles sustained through mobile devices and applications, allow everyone to be more connected and productive, but concurrently intensify demands on operators, service providers and enterprises to improve network performance.

Ruckus SmartZone network controllers simplify the complexity of scaling and managing wired switches, and wireless access points through a common interface to support private-cloud networkas- a-service (NaaS) offerings in addition to general enterprise networks. All physical and virtual SmartZone appliances support network configuration, monitoring, provisioning, discovery, planning, troubleshooting, performance management, security and reporting. SmartZone’s single, user-friendly web interface handles network visibility from the wireless edge to the network core and enabled IT administrators to perform day to day management tasks, troubleshoot user connectivity problems and define and monitor user and application policies without requiring advanced network skills and CLI expertise.

‣    Breadth:    IT has the ability to control and manage through a single controller console both wired and wireless networks.

‣    Ease:    Provisioning delays and errors are eliminated through a common automated discovery process.

‣    Openness:    Open APIs allow IT to call controller functions and streaming APIs push the full array of network data, statistics & alarms in near real-time.

‣    Scale:    Controllers that scales to a network of up to 450K clients.

System Management And Control
The Ruckus SmartZone software platform provides unified software architecture across wireless LAN (WLAN) controllers, for appliance, virtualized and cloud environments offering the ultimate in deployment flexibility. This new Wi-Fi software offers a tremendous level of flexibility: scaling up to 300,000 devices, offering single and multi-tenancy, as well as ‘WiFi-as-you-grow’ — the capability for your network to expand with and adapt to the changing needs of your business.

The Ruckus Virtual SmartZone
Service Provider Class WLAN Controller Designed to Run in the Cloud The vSZ is a key building block in enabling service providers of all types to provide a complete managed service to their customers. This can include management of the access points on the customer’s premises as well as all back-end systems in their data center. One of the most important backend systems is the WLAN controller. The vSZ is a virtualize version of the industry leading SCG-200 that makes use of Network Functions Virtualization to enable MSPs to offer a totally cloud-based service. vSZ can run on either an open-source KVM or VMware hypervisor.

Manage enterprise wireless network using a single network element: the ZoneDirector network controller simplifies network set-up and management, enhances security, minimizes troubleshooting and eases upgrades for networks built on Ruckus access points.

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.

‣    Simple to use, simple to manage:    Centralized management, quick setup, IT-Lite and automatic, real-time optimization of entire WLAN

‣    802.11ac ready:    ZoneDirector 1200 is 802.11ac ready as well as backwards compatible with all existing Ruckus ZoneFlex access points

‣    IT Lite deployment in 5 minutes or less:    A web-based configuration wizard lets any computer user configure an entire WLAN in minutes. Ruckus ZoneFlex APs auto-discover the ZoneDirector. Centralized management and automatic, real-time optimization of entire WLAN

‣    Advanced WLAN features and functions:    Advanced wireless networking features include rogue AP detection, interference detection, band steering, airtime fairness, role-based user policies, per-user rate-limiting, hotspot, guest networking services, VLAN pooling, application recognition and control

‣    Smart Mesh Networking streamlines costly and complex deployment:    Integrated Smart Mesh Networking technology automates deployment, eliminates the need to run Ethernet cable to every Smart Wi-Fi access point. Adaptable architecture with Hybrid Mesh extends the wireless network through Ethernet-connected APs, increasing system performance through better spatial reuse

‣    Automatic user security:    Dynamic PSK eliminates the requirement to configure and update individual PC client devices with unique encryption keys. Dynamic VLAN assignment seamlessly extends existing security policies to the WLAN

‣    Distributed forwarding architecture:    Maximizes data throughput by sending all data traffic directly from the access points to the wired network