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Scalable WLAN Controllers for Up to 30,000 Wi-Fi Access Points

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Scalable WLAN Controllers for Up to 30,000 Wi-Fi Access Points

When your connectivity really matters (which is always), you can turn to Ruckus. Building or expanding complex multi-site or multi-geo WLANs? Delivering single or multi-tier managed Wi-Fi services? We make it easy. Our SmartZone wireless LAN controllers simplify network set-up and management, enhance security, minimize troubleshooting and ease upgrades. Built on a common operating system, SmartZone controllers are available in both appliance and virtual appliance form.

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You'll Use SmartZone WLAN Controllers to:

  • Overcome limitations in scale associated with single, centrally managed WLANs, with support for physical or virtual deployments of up to 30,000 APs and 300,000 clients.
  • Deploy virtual appliances without compromising the scalability, redundancy or performance associated with their physical counterparts.
  • Avoid the unused controller capacity and wasted CAPEX often associated with redundant standby schemes.
  • Eliminate the need for separate mobility controllers or DHCP servers.
  • Reduce the risk associated with shared compute and storage by supporting containerized, multi-tenant domains.
  • Visually troubleshoot and quickly pinpoint client connection issues.
  • Easily deliver all client, AP, WLAN and controller statistics and key performance indicators to third party analytics platforms.

Organizations must support accellerating demands on their WLAN infrastructure. With the rise of "Internet of Things" (IoT) as well as "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD), the need for employees and customers to have the best user experience is driving organizations in every vertical to adopt the best possible network infrastructure.

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FEATURE vSZ-D
Secured data plane tunneling Enables forwarding of user data traffic through secure tunnels on Ruckus APs when managed by Virtual SmartZone controllers.
Multiple hypervisor support Supports the most widely deployed VMware and KVM hypervisors
NFV flexible architecture Complete separation of Control+Management plane (vSZ) and data plane functions (vSZ-D) via separate VMs that support distributed and centralized deployments providing compelling architecture flexibility
Works seamlessly with virtual Smart Zone vSZ acts as the controller VM for Ruckus APs as well as vSZ-D (Virtual Data plane) instances providing seamless configuration and management capabilities.
Up to 10 vSZ-D per vSZ and Up to 40 vsZ-D per cluster The vSZ controller runs in Active/Active (3+1) mode for extremely high availability.  Each vSZ-D runs as an independent virtual machine instance that is managed by the vSZ controller.
vSZ Zone affinity for
vSZ-DA		 This feature enables Ruckus APs in a particular zone establish tunnels with the vSZ-D in that particular zone. Provides flexibility for distributed and managed services deployments where the vSZ-Ds can be co-located on-premise with Ruckus APs (vSZ Zones) on medium/large high density sites that need tunneling. With upto 40 vSZ-Ds per cluster, the SZ 3.5 release can potentially support a large number of such distributed deployments.
DHCP server and NAT This feature enables a high scale DHCP Server on the vSZ-D. The DHCP Server is a high-scale server specifically designed and architected for Wi-Fi deployments that provide near-real time IP address assignment combined with NAT this provides tremendous value to the operator since it avoids macaddress scaling limits and high costs on the network infrastructure (switches).
Legal Intercept This feature is useful from a Legal Intercept requirements perspective and enables the ability to mirror packets in both uplink and downlink directions for Wi-Fi clients that have a CALEA warrant.
Support for northbound tunnels L2oGRE This feature enables vSZ-D to forward WiFi client traffic to a specified 3rd party WAG (Wireless Access Gateway) over L2oGRE protocol standard.
IPv6 support Supports IPv6 addressing for the vSZ-D interfaces as well as support forwarding of IPv6 client traffic
L3 Roaming (inter vSZ-D tunnels) This feature enables L3 Roaming when traffic is tunneled to the vSZ-D. The feature relies on inter vSZ-D flexi-vpn tunnels that are dynamically created with minimal user intervention. L3 Roaming can be
enabled based on VLANs or subnets.
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  SmartZone 100 SmartZone 300
Number of APs supported Up to 1,024 / 3,000 cluster Up to 10,000 / 30,000 cluster
Clients Up to 25,000 / 60,000 cluster Up to 100,000 / 300,000 per cluster
Ethernet ports 1GE Model: 4 GbE ports 6 x 1GbE ports
4 x 10GbE ports
Authentication support 802.1X, MAC address 802.1x, Local database,
Active Directory, RADIUS, LDAP
Guest networking/captive portal included included
DHCP server External or Assigned External or Assigned
AP discovery and control L2 / L3 L2 / L3
SSID/WLAN support 2,048 / 2,048 cluster 6,144 per SZ-300
Management Interface Web GUI, CLI Web GUI, CLI
Remote Management Yes Yes
Management protocol(s) SNMP v3, RESTful JSON SNMP v3, RESTful JSON
VLAN support Dynamic VLANs Dynamic VLANs
Data Plane Tunneling or local breakout Tunneling or local breakout
Power supply DC or AC DC or AC
Fans Redundant Six redundant, field swappable fans in three sets
SKU/Partnumber 1GE: P01-S104-XX00
10GE: P01-S124-XX00 AP Lic: L09-0001-SG00		 901-S300-WW10/00
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