Ruckus SmartZone 100 Wireless Controller Model Overview
The Ruckus SmartZone™ 100 is your ultimate wireless LAN controller, specifically designed for medium to large-scale enterprises. With the ability to support up to 1,024 access points and 25,000 clients per device, it ensures maximum performance and seamless connectivity. Experience unparalleled scalability with its n + 1 clustering, managing up to 3,000 APs and 60,000 clients effortlessly. Its cloud-based licensing simplifies setup while providing flexibility, and advanced features like rogue AP detection and smart meshing reduce deployment costs and complexity.
Key Features:
- Highly scalable: Supports up to 1,024 APs and 25,000 clients.
- Ultra high performance: Delivers up to 10 GE throughput with dedicated ports for control and data.
- Granular cloud-based licensing: Flexible per AP licensing without unnecessary costs.
- IT lite deployment: Configures an entire WLAN in minutes.
- Smart meshing: Streamlines deployment, eliminating the need for extensive cabling.
Specifications:
- Physical Characteristics:
- 1RU rack-mountable chassis
- Dimensions: 438 mm x 292.1 mm x 44 mm
- Weight: 5 kg
- Power: AC input requirements: 250 Watts
- Capacity:
- Up to 1,024 managed APs
- Up to 25,000 concurrent clients
- 3+1 cluster redundancy
- Security Standards:
- WPA, WPA2, 802.11i encryption
- 802.1x, MAC address authentication
Ruckus P01-S104-UN00 Wireless Controller Overview
The SmartZone™ 100 (SZ100) represents a new class of affordable and versatile WLAN controllers designed for enterprise deployment. Powered by the SmartZone OS, it addresses network challenges faced by enterprises of all types and sizes.
ENTERPRISE
Organizations must support accelerating demands on their WLAN infrastructure with the rise of Internet of Things (IoT) and 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. The SZ100 allows all enterprises to deploy an affordable and highly resilient Wi-Fi network.
DISTRIBUTED AND REMOTE OFFICE
End-user quality-of-service expectations are on the rise. Capital equipment budgets are not. The SZ100 provides IT departments with intuitive, visual tools to centrally manage end-user experience in distributed and remote offices. Its active/active redundancy architecture provides the budget flexibility that comes from having no idle capacity.
MANAGEMENT / OA&M
ADMINISTRATIVE DASHBOARD
The Dashboard is a customizable and contextually rich interface that reduces the time required to support large-scale networks. Consistent menus and consolidated and streamlined navigation shortens time to perform routine tasks such as AP configuration or monitoring actions. Configurable visual filter settings for the Dashboard personalize visual network alerts and WLAN statistics; settings are preserved throughout sub-pages. View maps, health and traffic analysis, spectrum analysis and more.
VISUAL CONNECTION DIAGNOSTICS
Visual Connection Diagnostics speeds and simplifies troubleshooting and client problem resolution. This troubleshooting tool allows an administrator to focus on a specific client device and its connection status. An intuitive interface tracks the step-by-step progress of the client's connection through 802.11 stages, RADIUS, EAP authentication, captive portal redirects, encryption key setup, DHCP, and roaming. Administrators can identify information in each step, like EAP type or IP address assigned and then pinpoint where in the process a failure occurs. This enhanced visibility helps determine the likely cause of client problems and, based on the failure stage, gives useful guidance for remediation. Visual Connection Diagnostics supports open, PSK, 802.1X, and WISPr networks.
A rich set of RESTful JSON and GPB streaming APIs enable the use of 3rd party configuration, monitoring, reporting and analytics tools. Each SmartZone controller supports access to a complete set of Wi-Fi network machine-level metrics enabling it to plug directly into existing automated backend systems and to provide a 'headless' interface for the WLAN infrastructure.
Public API support includes zone and WLAN details, AP group override settings and AP override settings. API improvements are supported by near real-time monitoring with data granularity as fine as three minutes. The real-time push streaming data driven framework enable SmartZone to deliver better report and management support.
Full specifications (PDF)
