Ruckus Wireless announced the introduction of its new SmartZone software platform, a carrier-grade solution developed for and deployed by service providers around the globe, now extended to demanding enterprise customers. This future-ready solution powering Ruckus Smart WiFi products and technologies addresses the growing challenges that enterprises and service providers face in delivering high-performance, reliable WiFi, while also providing them with a clear path to meet constantly increasing network infrastructure performance and service requirements.
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 WiFi 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 new SmartZone software incorporates and supports all Ruckus ZoneFlex indoor and outdoor access points (APs), managed by a family of Ruckus physical and virtual appliance controllers, including:
· NEW Ruckus SmartZone 100 wireless LAN (WLAN) controller – the most affordable, scalable, resilient, and highest performing WLAN controller in its class. The Ruckus SmartZone 100 combines power, simplicity and tremendous scalability with unique Ruckus clustering technology. Supporting up to 25,000 clients, with up to 10 Gbps data throughput, the SmartZone 100 can manage up to 1,024 Ruckus ZoneFlex access points (APs), with support for up to 3,000 APs and 60,000 clients in a cluster. The new Ruckus SmartZone 100 easily integrates with network, security and authentication infrastructure already in place, and is easily configured through a point-and-click web wizard. Ruckus ZoneFlex APs automatically discover and are configured by the SmartZone 100. Redundant and secure, the SmartZone 100 provides WLAN-wide network management within a single, easy-to-use and affordable WLAN system.
· Ruckus virtual SmartZone (vSZ) virtualized WLAN controller – designed for small, medium and large enterprises and service providers. Delivering the benefits and easy scaling capabilities of virtualization, the Ruckus virtual SmartZone is designed to provide maximum scalability and flexibility with Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). A vSZ cluster can support up to 30,000 APs and 300,000 WiFi clients.
· Ruckus virtual Data Plane with vSZ-D – Ruckus SmartZone virtual Data Plane (vSZ-D) is ideal for enterprise and service provider customers that need to centrally tunnel some or all end-user data. The vSZ-D provides flexible and cost-effective data tunneling that benefits from NFV architecture. The vSZ-D is manageable via the vSZ while enabling independent scaling of control and data planes.
· Ruckus SmartCell Gateway (SCG) 200 – the most scalable hardware WLAN controller on the market, supporting up to 10,000 access points (APs) and 100,000 clients (with a capacity of up to 20 Gbps) per appliance in a cluster architecture. The Ruckus SCG 200 is the only platform that integrates 3GPP gateway functions, allowing mobile network operators (MNOs) and managed service providers (MSPs) to integrate Ruckus Smart WiFi into their existing mobile core to leverage infrastructure services such as authentication and billing, already in place. Successfully installed in customer deployments around the world, the Ruckus SCG 200 supports both WLAN controller and WLAN gateway functions.
SmartZone Means Smart WiFi Now and in the Future: The SmartZone software platform provides carrier-class performance, form factor flexibility, and high-performance WiFi that can scale as an enterprise or service provider grows. Enterprises and service providers can choose between multiple physical and virtual products to best suit their needs, with data tunneling or local breakout for maximum flexibility.
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