Ruckus Virtual SmartZone vSZ Virtual Appliance Controller 1 Instance, Includes 1 AP License

The virtual SmartZone vSZ from Ruckus is a scalable and versatile WLAN controller designed to run in a private cloud deployment. It eliminates the difficulties companies experience with building, managing and scaling up to very large scale WLAN networks. The vSZ implements a whole host of new features that optimise the Wi-Fi deployment for the businesses.

The vSZ can support over a thousand Ruckus access points and tens of thousands of subscribers per virtual instance. The vSZ provides all control plane and management functions with data plane traffic being routed directly from the access points to a separate WLAN gateway. This approach is consistent with the industry trend toward Software Defined Networks (SDN) that split out the control plane from the data plane. The vSZ can be deployed as a private cloud to support one specific network deployment or in a public cloud that can support hundreds or even thousands of managed WLAN networks. The vSZ can run on either VMware Esxi 5.5 and later or Hyper-V/Azure or KVM (CentOS 7.0 64 bit).

The hypervisor function creates the virtual machines (VMs), which the vSZ application can run on. As traffic and load increases, the hypervisor can obtain additional resources from the underlying hardware layer to meet the demand. These resources can later be released as circumstances dictate.

• A single wired and wireless network management user interface for deploying, monitoring and troubleshooting access points and switches
• L3 and L2 auto discovery and auto provisioning of access points and switches reduces manual administration and cut down deployment time
• A SmartZone network controller can manage 10K access points, 150K clients and up to 20 Gbps of throughput, while 3+1 active clustering increases capacity to 30K access points, 450K clients and up to 60 Gbps of aggregate throughput depending on model
• Virtual SmartZone makes possible an all virtual data centre deployment on commodity hardware minimising capital expenses and maximizing server reuse and flexibility
• SmartZone protects from catastrophic failures with intra cluster and inter cluster failover. Geo-redundancy with active/active clusters deliver higher availability versus traditional hot standby
• Comprehensive and well documented APIs enable 3rd party applications and scripts to invoke provisioning, configuration and real-time monitoring of access points and switches. Build customized dashboards for tenant administrators
• Visual Connection Diagnostics speeds and simplifies troubleshooting and wireless client problem resolution while unique “super-KPIs” enable IT to more quickly detect and react to potential user experience degradation
• Easily create and enforce content policies to protect wireless users from accessing inappropriate websites using optionally licensed URL Filtering
• Multi tenancy, domain segmentation and containment enable secure delivery of managed networking services with complex, multi tiered service levels
• SmartZone also supports rogue access point detection and mitigation, adaptive band balancing, load balancing, airtime fairness, hotspot and guest services, capacity based admission control and more.