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Fast and Fierce

Founded 2004, Sunnyvale, CA EMPLOYEE

BREAKDOWN

Innovation Carrier class Smart Wi-Fi

Customers 12,000+ 18% 15%
Employees 500+ in 20 countries 10%
R&D Centers Sunnyvale, China,
Taiwan, India
57%
Capitalization $76 million
Investors Sequoia, Sutter Hill, Motorola,
R&D
T-Ventures, Focus Ventures, Support
Telus Sales and Marketing
Administration
Patents 55 granted (80 pending)
Units shipped 3 million and counting
Markets Carrier/enterprise infrastructure

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 Diverse Global Customer Base
Mobile Data Offload WBA Managed Services Wholesale / Fixed Line
OPERATORS

DOCOMO interTouch

PUBLIC VENUES

Beijing Capital
International Airport

HOSPITALITY

EDUCATION

DEHLI UNIVERSITY

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The Ruckus Family of Controller

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 Smart Zone 100 Overview
Scalable Mid-Range WLAN Controller for the Enterprise

▪ Two models: 1 GE (Base Model) and 10 GE

▪ Ruckus OS with Enteprise GUI
▪ Support AP Local Break-out and Centralized
data tunneling.
▪ High Available and Greatly Scalable:
▪ Single Node: 1,024 AP, 25 K Client, 2,000
WLANs
▪ 4-node Cluster (3+1 redundancy): 3,000 AP, 60
K Clients.

▪ New AP Licensing: 1 AP granularity

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 Smart Zone 100 Overview
Hardware Specification
▪ Rack Mountable 1 RU
▪ High Performance through intel i7 multi-core
and multi-threaded CPU
▪ 320 GB Hard disk drive for long term storage.
▪ Port Configuration
▪ Base model: 4x GE ports
▪ 10 GE model: 2x 10 GE ports and 4 x GE ports.

▪ 1 GE platform: 1 Gbps Data Throughput.

▪ 10 GE platform: 10 Gbps Data Throughput.
▪ Single 77W AC power supply with Redundant
fans.

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Active-Active Cluster Architecture

▪ Industry leading Clustering

Architecture.
▪ 3+1 Cluster deliver Greater
Scale
▪ Active: Active cluster controller
provide Optimal performance
via Load-balancing
▪ AP join SZ 100 in round-robin
manner.

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Cluster Delivering Extreme Resiliency

▪ Support Hot Add and Del Cluster.

▪ No impact to client’s data traffic for
distributed deployment if a
controller fails.
▪ AP’s automatically re-joins among
three available controller.
▪ If a controller runs out of its scale
limits then New APs join other
available controller.

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 Introducing RuckOS Architecture

Resiliency & Scalability Single Pane of Glass Tunneling Performance

Massive Scale N+1 30 Days of Reporting

Clustering data across cluster

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 Introducing RuckOS

The SCG OS is an established platform

(3 years) that has been focused on the carrier
and MSP customer segment.

Starting with the 3.0 release, the Ruckus

Operating system is now called:

Runs on the following platforms:

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 Features Introduced in RuckOS 3.0

Wireless and Networking ▪ Internal Captive Portal (RADIUS, LDAP, AD,

Local DB)
▪ Ruckus SPoT location Support
▪ AP Survivability for 802.1x, Guest Access and
internal Captive Portal.
▪ WIDS/WIPS
▪ WLAN time Scheduling
▪ Bonjour Gateway at the AP
▪ Per WLAN ACL Support (L2, L3, L4)
▪ Capacity based Client Admission Control
▪ Multi-hop speed flex mesh traffic testing
▪ Band Balancing
▪ Force DHCP.

Management ▪ User Roles

▪ Simplified Enterprise GUI ▪ Device Policy Control

▪ Easy Setup: UPnP Network Discovery and ▪ RESTful/JSON API for configuration and
installation Wizard retrieval

▪ Smart Licensing support for Smart Zone 100 ▪ Zone Director Configuration Migration

▪ Zero-IT for 802.1x ▪ Support SWIPE 2.0

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ZoneFlex Access Points
Zone Flex R710 Indoor Access Points

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 ZoneFlex Indoor Access Points

R710
802.11ac
4x4:4
R700
800/1733
802.11ac
Mbps
3x3:3
Dual-band
450/1300
Mbps
R600 Dual-band
802.11ac
3x3:3
450/1300
R500 Mbps
802.11ac Dual-band
2x2:2
Price

300/866 Mbps
Dual-band
R300
802.11n
2x2:2
300 Mbps
2.4 GHz
1 Ethernet

7372/7352
802.11n
2x2:2
600 Mbps
Dual-band

Goodness (Radio Technology, Performance, Features)

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ZoneFlex Indoor AP Specs

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 Introducing ZoneFlex R710
Industry Best Wave 2 802.11ac Indoor Access Point

▪ Dual band 802.11ac 4x4 : 4 Access Point

▪ 1733 Mbps (5 GHz), 800 Mbps (2.4 GHz)
▪ 80 MHz channelization

▪ 256-QAM modulation (both 2.4 & 5 GHz)

▪ BeamFlex+ Polarization Diversity

▪ MU-MIMO (up to 3ss)
▪ Chip-based Transmit BeamForming
▪ 2x Gigabit Ethernet Ports – Link Aggregation
(LACP)
▪ USB port for IoT devices e.g. BLE beacons
▪ 802.3af/at PoE or 12VDC power – 802.3af
Operating Mode Feature

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ZoneFlex R710 – Key Benefits

1
Industry-leading 802.11ac Wave 2 Performance
Combine Ruckus RF Technologies with the latest 802.11ac (Wave 2)
feature to outstanding Performance and Reliability.

2 Mobile Device Ready

PD-MRC (beamflex+) adapts to changing client device and
orientation.

3
Differentiated Services
High-performance, reliable WLAN access points support a rich
overlay of differentiated services e.g. analytics, SPoT location-based
services.

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Indoor Access Point Positioning

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 Wi-Fi Alliance 802.11 ac Feature Compliance

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Competitive Comparison—High-End APs

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Ruckus Innovative
Technologies
• Beamflex and Adaptive Antenna Array
• Smart Mesh
• Polarization Diversity
• Smart Cast
• Dynamics PSK

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 BeamFlex Antenna Advantages
 Omni-directional antenna:
 Cannot control interference to neighbouring APs
 Multipath phasing can be a significant issue
 No interference rejection
 Make bad RF neighbors
▪ BeamFlex smart antenna:
Signal Gain
Up to 9dBi
Beamforming focuses the RF energy ensuring multipath
arrives in phase and provides maximum signal density
= extended range and superior performance
Horizontally and vertically polarised elements offer 4000+
unique antenna patterns automatically selected on a per
packet/per client basis
Attenuate interference from adjacent APs, clients and other Rejected Interference
RF sources Up to -17dB

Cause significantly less interference to adjacent APs

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Polarization Diversity (BeamFlex+)

▪ Better Reception PD-MRC which are

hard to “hear” due to orientation

▪ Better transmission to devices

constantly changing their orientation.

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 Smart Mesh
Changing the economics of WLAN deployment

▪ high performance, by combining 802.11n

with Smart Wi-Fi technology
▪ Combines high gain smart antenna array
▪ Intelligent RF routing
▪ Reliable connectivity between mesh
nodes
▪ Intrusion free Path  minimizes convergence risks
 Enhance the performance
 Half the time, half the cost, three times
the performance

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 How SmartMesh Works

Mesh 150 Mbps 150 Mbps 100 Mbps

AP

ZoneDirector Root
controller AP

300 Mbps 802.11n 802.11g 802.11g

 Mesh APs constantly advertise potential throughput

 Each AP picks the best (fastest) path to the root AP and clients
 BeamFlex manages best signal path to client and inside mesh
 If mesh node fails, SmartMesh self-heals

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 WLAN Prioritization in Detail
 Traffic automatically
prequeued in software per
user and per class
 Higher priority SSIDs
receive preference
Weighted Round Robin Ruckus algorithms for
across different clients data-rate and
(based on airtime and antenna adaptation
throughput potential)
Per Client
Software
Queues
Voice Low

Video Low Hardware

Queues
Data Low Voice
Video
Background Low
Data
Background
SSID CLIENT 1
Corp Scheduler Wi-Fi Chip
Priority Voice High
SSID High Video High
Guests Retries go back to head of
Priority Data High software queue for that client
(no head-of-line blocking)
Low Background High
CLIENT 2
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•
•
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 Per User Security: Dynamic PSK™

▪ The Problem: Provisioning secure wireless access

▪ Single pre-shared key is not secure
(e.g. employee leaving requires changing key for all employees)
▪ 802.1x is complex and not affordable for SMBs
▪ No IT resource to administer unique key per employee
 The Solution: Auto administered Dynamic PSK™
 Automatic provisioning of unique encryption key to each user/device
 No manual client configuration
 Highly secure: unique 63-byte pass-phrase per user
 Easily deactivated when employee leaves
 New key can be generated periodically
 Configurable per WLAN

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Thank you!

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