SZ-300 Datasheet
SZ-300 Datasheet
SZ-300 Datasheet
SmartZone
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Scalable Wireless LAN Controller
DATA SHEET
CONTENT FILTERING
Easily create and enforce content polices to
protect users from accessing inappropriate
websites using URL Filtering.
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SmartZone 300 DATA SHEET
Scalable Wireless LAN Controller
Global filter
preserves
Completely admin context
redesigned throughout
dashboard menus and
experience. pages
Fresh
layout, user
Google maps interaction,
integration and styling
and indoor throughout.
floorplans
New menu
structure with
simplified
navigation.
MANAGEMENT / OA&M
MULTI-TIER ADMINISTRATIVE HIERARCHY
Manage the
A multi-tier administrative hierarchy provides more flexibility network Simplified and
hierarchy
for service providers, allowing administrators to create for segmen-
enhanced
search
tation.
and reuse configuration profiles within domains and zones. functionality.
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.
and rate-limit based on VLAN or VLAN pool and L3/L4 Access TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
Control Lists (ACLs). Traffic analysis displays domain, zone, AP group, WLAN, and
AP traffic and client trends over time. Quickly find the most
HOTSPOT 2.0 / PASSPOINT heavily loaded AP or top network users and devices. View client
Hotspot 2.0 enables 802.1x/EAP mobile devices to OS types and application consumption. Filter statistics by band
automatically discover, select and authenticate to APs for (2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, or both) and traffic direction (uplink, downlink,
which a roaming arrangement exists. Hotspot 2.0 is automatic or both), and monitor client load over time.
and requires no user intervention after proper device
provisioning. Self-service provisioning can be accomplished by INDOOR AND OUTDOOR MAPS
the Ruckus Cloudpath security and policy With Maps, centrally view all sites at the same time with Google
management platform. Maps integration and display sites, floorplans and APs on the
map. Simplify routine checkups of AP health on a site-by-site
ISOLATION WHITELIST basis with one click. Inspect the status of APs across floorplans
Administrators can manually configure a whitelist entry, to find online, flagged, and offline APs. View health and traffic
either to add non-gateway devices such as printers or to allow data for each AP to evaluate site performance. Administrators
additional gateway MAC addresses that may be required for can choose an AP to view details like health status, IP address
load balancing or other functions. The isolation whitelist can be or other operational metrics. APs are color-coded by status,
auto-only, manual-only, or auto and manual. and administrators can overlay operational data—like
operating channel, traffic, client count, airtime utilization—for
BONJOUR MANAGEMENT each AP on the map.
Bonjour Management enables the detection of Bonjour
services (such as AirPlay, Apple TV and other Apple network LAYER 7 APPLICATION VISIBILITY AND CONTROL
services) and other mDNS-based services such as ChromeCast Robust Layer 7 application recognition and control pinpoints
across VLANs and subnets for both wired and wireless top applications and top users, among other metrics. The
networks. The SZ300 is preconfigured with common Bonjour SZ300 allows rate limiting, blocking and QoS actions by
service types, making Bonjour service detection automatic. application to support organizational network usage policies.
The application signature database is updated independently
Bonjour Fencing allows administrators to control the physical of SmartZone firmware upgrades, ensuring that administrators
area in which a given Bonjour-based service is discoverable. can always manage and control the latest applications.
This is accomplished by mapping to nearby APs devices that
are advertising Bonjour services and allowing only that AP or SUPER-KPIS
its neighbors to advertise the Bonjour record. This prevents Unique “super-KPIs” enable IT to more quickly detect and react
users/devices from discovering Bonjour services that are not to potential user experience degradation. SZ300 proactively
nearby and thus not relevant to their search. monitors a core set of metrics that consistently correlate well
with common problems, and presents a summary metric
NETWORK INTELLIGENCE as a starting point for problem isolation. Using aggregate
measurements that capture a broad range of problems
associated to the Wi-Fi network simplifies troubleshooting
by narrowing the scope and location of the problem. These
holistic, proprietary, “super” metrics include Latency, Airtime
Utilization, and Connection Failure.
SPECTRUM ANALYSIS
On-demand real-time spectrum analysis make use of existing
radios within the AP, removing the requirement to have
dedicated APs for spectrum reporting. Visualize RF spectrum
by real-time energy, real-time utilization, density, energy
waterfall, and utilization waterfall. While an AP conducts a
spectrum scan, clients are offloaded to nearby APs to minimize
connection disruptions. In the case of APs with three radios,
the 3rd radio can provide spectrum analysis of both 2.4 and
5 GHz bands without impacting client connectivity. Spectrum
Analysis is supported on 802.11n, 802.11ac Wave 1 and
Wave 2 APs.
• BeamFlex+: BeamFlex+ adaptive antenna technology increases every Ruckus AP’s performance and range. Multiple antenna
elements inside each AP manipulate RF patterns in real time to maximize, on a per packet basis, signal gain for each client, while
accommodating changes in client device orientation. This technology mitigates radio interference, noise related performance
issues, and improves application flows especially for mobile devices.
• ChannelFly: The ChannelFly dynamic channel management technology in all Ruckus APs improves wireless performance in
highly congested environments by dynamically switching a client to a better channel when the one it’s using starts to degrade.
This capability allows APs to automatically select the optimum 2.4 and 5 GHz channels to maximize performance and minimize
interference. ChannelFly also supports a channel-change cost metric that refines client channel migration using channel capacity
prediction models and initial learning and settling time updates.
• Capacity-Based Admission Control: To help ensure existing clients’ quality of service during periods of heavy load, Ruckus
APs implement a capacity-based client access control algorithm that declines connection requests from new clients if already-
connected clients are at risk of service quality degradation.
Ruckus
APs
L2 / L3 SZ300
AP Control / Management Network
Data
1
Data Plane Options
1 – Local Breakout
2 – Tunneling Through WLAN Controller
ARCHITECTURE
SEPARATE CONTROL AND DATA PLANE
The SmartZone platform addresses deployment and latency constraints with traditional WLAN architectures by implementing a
customized Local MAC architecture which places all essential WLAN services including authentication and association requests
within the Ruckus AP. This enables all SmartZone controllers to separate control and management traffic from data traffic while
optimizing for both using SSH-based and GRE-based protocols, thus improving deployment flexibility and network latency.
A single SmartZone controller placed within a centralized data center can manage multiple remote sites without forcing all
authentication requests or client data to tunnel through the SmartZone controller.
User traffic is delivered directly through the local L2/L3 network which improves latency between clients and services.
Branch office deployments and direct integration between APs and local IT infrastructure Active Directory, LDAP, RADIUS, DHCP,
DNS, and Firewalls are also enabled.
Data encryption of payloads being transmitted over a public network connection, such as the Internet, are encrypted
with SmartZone.
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SmartZone 300 DATA SHEET
Scalable Wireless LAN Controller
AP SURVIVABILITY
The SZ300 minimizes the impact of lost connectivity between the controller and the AP by placing essential WLAN services within the
AP. WAN link outages or controller failures do not affect the normal operation of WLAN services.
Ensures redundancy and balanced AP Segment user traffic from manage- Allows for distributed or centralized L2 In the event of backhaul outage, new
loading with cluster-wide manage- ment/control traffic for flexible deploy- tunneling on a per-WLAN or per-zone APs and clients can be added and
ment across data centers and zero ment, higher security and lower-cost basis using Ruckus or 3rd-party data full WLAN functionality persists.
idle controller capacity. scaling and tunneling. plane nodes.
Visual User Interface Rich Northbound APIs Flexible Licensing Integrated Reporting
Intuitive, graphics-intensive interface RESTful JSON APIs enable the use of Migratable, single-AP licenses ensure Customizable reports with visual
simplifies and speeds control and 3rd party configuration, monitoring, linear pricing, while intra-cluster shar- alerts and pivot-table functional-
management tasks, while enhancing reporting and analytics tools. ing eliminates duplicate license costs. ity makes it easy to prioritize and
visibility. respond to network conditions.
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