RUCKUS SmartZone 144
Most scalable midsize campus and branch wired and wireless network controllers

RUCKUS SmartZone 144 Overview:

The RUCKUS SmartZone 144 (SZ144) supports distributed networks, automates repetitive IT work, and is flexible and future-ready with scalable wired and wireless network management capabilities.

SmartZone 144 manages up to 120,000 clients, up to 6,000 RUCKUS access points, and 1,200 RUCKUS switches from a single cluster.

It is ideal for any midsize enterprise that must support hyper-distributed networks that connect multiple campuses and networks of remote home offices. Using its native hybrid (centralize / distributed) network architecture, a single SZ144 placed within a centralized data center can manage up to 6,000 remote sites.

And unlike conventional wired and wireless systems that are complex and cumbersome to learn, manage and deploy, the SZ144 is designed to reduce an administrator’s workload by streamlining repetitive IT tasks with visual client troubleshooting tools, and zero-touch discovery, provisioning and policy configuration of new APs and switches.

To keep organizations competitive, their network must be always on, flexible, and future-ready. The SZ144 supports an always-on network with intra-cluster, intercluster failover aiding disaster recovery best practices. Features like multi-standards API support, OpenRoaming, network health metrics keeps the network flexible. Additionally, containerization migration, the move to microservices, and dynamic scaling keeps SmartZone networks future-proof.

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Benefits:

Consolidated wired-wireless management

A single wired and wireless network management user interface for deploying, monitoring and troubleshooting access points and switches.

Expedite troubleshooting

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

Auto-Discover, Auto-Deploy, Auto-Provision

Web-based configuration wizards configures an entire WLAN/LAN in minutes.

Ultra-high resiliency

SmartZone protects from catastrophic failures with intra-cluster, and inter-cluster failover.

Unmatched scale

SZ144 Controller can manage up to 2K APs, 400 switches and 40K clients. With 3+1 clustering, it scales up to 6K APs, 1200 switches and 120K clients. With LAG, aggregate throughput can reach 40Gbps.

Ease content management

Easily create and enforce content policies to protect wireless users from accessing inappropriate websites using optionally licensed URL Filtering

Additional advanced features

SmartZone also supports rogue AP detection and mitigation, adaptive band balancing, load balancing, airtime fairness, hotspot and guest services, capacity-based admission control, and more

Features:

 

Specifications:

Capacity
Managed APs	Up to 2,000 per controller Up to 6,000 per cluster
Managed Switches	Up to 400 per controller Up to 1200 per cluster
WLANs (BSSIDs)	Up to 2,048
VLANS	Up to 4,096
Concurrent Devices	Up to 40,000 per controller Up to 120,000 per cluster
Key Functionality
Device Management	RUCKUS Wi-Fi APs supported: R850, R750, R730, R720, R710, R650, R610, R550, R510, R320, R310, M510, H510, C110, H320, E510, T811CM, T750, T750SE, T710, T710S, T610, T610S, T504, T310, T301, FZM300, FZP300 RUCKUS ICX 7000 series switches running FastIron 8.0.80 and above supported; FastIron 80.0.90a required for Zero-Touch Provisioning
Device Type Support	Wi-Fi APs, Switches
Controller Expansion	Up to 4 controllers in N+1 active-active mode, supporting non-disruptive capacity expansion
Controller Redundancy	3+1 distributed data preserving with N+1 redundancy within a cluster
Data Offload	Local offload of traffic directly to the Internet
AP	WPA, WPA2-AES, 802.11i, 802.1x/EAP, PSK, WISPr, WEP, WPA3, Enhanced Open, MAC Address* Fast EAP-SIM re-authentication EAP-SIM, EAP-AKA, EAP-AKA over WLAN for 802.1x Wi-Fi Locations with the SZ AAA-Proxy functionality enabled
User Database	Internal database up to 25,000 users External: RADIUS, LDAP, Active Directory
Access Control	L2 (MAC address-based) L3/4 (IP and Protocol based) L2 client isolation Management interface access control Time-based WLANs Device type access policies Two-factor authentication password, SMS
Wireless Intrusion Detection (WIDS/WIPS)	Rogue AP detection / prevention Evil-twin/AP spoofing detection Ad hoc detection
AAA	RADIUS (primary and backup)
Hotspot	WISPr, Wi-Fi CERTIFIED, Passpoint™, HotSpot 2.0*
Guest Access	Supported
Captive Portal	Supported
Mesh	Self-healing, Self-forming, Zero-touch provisioning
DHCP Server	Up to 100,000 IP address leases per vSZ-D (in increments of 1,000 IP address leases)
NAT	Up to 2 million sessions flows per vSZ-D (in increments of 100,000 session flows)
Media	802.11e/WMM, U-APSD, Wi-Fi Calling Prioritization*
mDNS Bonjour Fencing	Supported
WISPr	WISPr authentication, SZ downlink AP Survivability*
Software Queues	Per traffic type (4), per client
SmartCast Traffic Classification	Automatic, heuristics and TOS based or VLAN-defined
Rate Limiting	Supported
WLAN Prioritization	Supported
Client Load Balancing	Automatic
Band Load Balancing	Supported
AP Provisioning	L3 or L2 auto-discovery Auto-software upgrade Automatic channel optimization
Configuration Management	Secure multi-operator login (RBAC) Large scale (bulk) AP management tools Switch software and firmware upgrades Switch configuration management Per zone firmware versioning control Configuration audit trails Alarm and event notification (SNMP V1/V2/V3) Event Logging (Syslog) Integrated on-board remote accessible EMS functionality RESTful APIs (JSON) Web-UI CLI
Physical Characteristics
Power	Dual (redundant) AC or DC hot-swappable power supplies DC power consumption: 1400W Power Rating: -36 to -72VDC AC power consumption: 1500W Power Rating: 100-127VAC/200-240VAC, 47-63HZ SZ144: AC power consumption: 250W
Dimensions	1RU rack mountable: 438 mm (W) x 292.1 mm (D) x 44 mm (H); 17.25 in (W) x 11.5 in (D) x 1.73 in (H)
Weight	5 kg; 11.02 lbs
Connections	4 - 1GbE ports 4 - 10GbE ports
Fans	Three (Field-Swappable fans FRU 902-S120-0000)
Mean-Time-Between-Failure (MTBF)	At 25C: AC: 48649 hours AC: w/ 10G 45818 hours
Environmental Conditions	Operating Temperature: 0°C (32°F) – 40°C (104°F) Operating Humidity: 5% to 95%, noncondensing Humidity storage: 95%, non-condensing
Regulatory/Certifications
EMC (USA/Canada)	FCC/ICES-003-Emissions
Safety (USA/Canada)	UL60950-1/CSA 60950-1
Miscellaneous	NEBS level 3 design

*SmartZone controllers do not contain embedded radios or antennas

Documentation:

Download the RUCKUS SmartZone Family Datasheet (PDF).

Download the RUCKUS SmartZone 144 Datasheet (PDF).