Enterprises and Service Providers must meet growing demands for how to more efficiently handle user data in distributed networks. Today’s wireless customer expectations require delivering secure, high-performance, reliable and scalable WiFi services. The Ruckus virtual SmartZone – Data Plane (vSZ-D) is a virtualized WLAN solution that assists to meet these demands.

Designed as a Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) application, vSZ-D can be easily deployed within an existing vSZ-E or vSZ-H network to provide secure and flexible user data plane management in either distributed or centralized configurations. This can address customer requirements to secure guest network Internet traffic, meet PCI compliance, and optimize VoIP quality by managing aggregates traffic through the secure tunnels. Leveraging the vSZ-D NFV architecture can also lower TCO/CAPEX costs and scales upwards to 10K APs and 100K clients per instance.

Key Benefits

Secure Tunneled WLANs

Enables forwarding of user data traffic through secure tunnels on Ruckus APs when managed by Virtual SmartZone controllers

Flexible & Scalable Deployment Architectures

An industry-first support for centralized as well as distributed deployment topologies while enabling independent data plane and control plane scaling.

Deployment and Operational Simplicity

Works seamlessly with vSZ controllers simplifying the need for WiFi network management

Site Level QoS and Policy control

Service policy and QoS can be applied to the aggregated data flow on a site level rather than per WLAN or AP, thus simplifying and optimizing policy decisions for WiFi network operators*

*In post version 1 release

For more information, download the Virtual SmartZone Data Plane (vSZ-D) data sheet and the solution brief.