The same physical AP has 4 management platforms, free Unleashed up to 128 AP-s, controller, cloud and Smartzone with up to 30000 AP-s.

Ruckus takes pride in protecting client's investments - once you have purchased their AP, there are several different options for its use: standalone, controller, cloud or unleashed mode. For example, if you have initially selected cloud management for your AP and your policy requires at some …

Ruckus has extensive capabilities to authenticate users on guest networks via social media. For example in Unleashed you can use Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, WeChat for self sign in. Here's how to set it up.

Unleashed

Unleashed > Create WLAN

Click on Advanced at the bottom and you can choose which login options to use.

Ruckus Cloud

In Ruckus Cloud, start with 'Networks', 'Add Network'.Enter the desired name for the …

Virtual SmartZone can be installed on both VMWare and Linux KVM virtualization environments. The Linux layer gives the server more performance and here we describe how the command line installation process was performed on one piece of hardware from the start. First make sure that you enable CPU virtualization capability from the hardware BIOS. Other hardware requirements are min 13GB RAM, 2-4CPU, 100GB SSD.

Ruckus recommends CentOS 7 or later …

Unleashed 200.8 and 200.7 received a software update in June 2020 that removes some security vulnerabilities and improves download speeds on some client devices.

200.7.10.202.118 supports following AP-s:

Indoor AP:

C110, H320, H510, M510, R310, R320, R500, R510, R600, R610, R710, R720.

Outdoor AP:

E510, T300, T300e, T301n, T301s, T310c, T310d, T310n, T310s, T610, T610s, T710, T710s.

The following release builds can be directly online upgraded to Unleashed version 200.7.10.202.118 …

Due to the Covid19 situation and working from home, it is increasingly important for people to have high-speed internet at home even in remote locations. In most cases, if the fixed line has not reached the desired location, it is too expensive to do. The mobile network may also be lacking speed and stability. We recommend to consider a high-speed professional radio link!

One customer living on the north coast …

First you need to start the SNMP agent in smartzone and set the community (password).

Now you need the MIB files ja SNMP OID documentation, wich is at the end of the post. Although today the ready-made SNMP tool is mostly used, this example is made under Linux to show the structure and performance of Smartzone MIB in more detail.

Virtual SmartZone has recently received an update 5.2, which allows among other things the introduction of WPA3. We tested and it worked, here's how to configure it.

WPA3 supports Wave2 APs such as R320, R510, R610, R710 and larger, the list can be viewed here.

We had to create a new zone for testing that would only include devices that support this update:

Wireless LANs -> Create Zone…

A Captive Portal is a website that directs users who have joined the wifi network to authenticate themselves in order to access the Internet or another network.

This is a common solution, for example, at airports, cafes and hotels, where the user has to enter their e-mail address or a username and password previously shared with them to use the network.
Prior to successful authentication, access to the Internet is …

We performed a speed test on the R730 802.11ax AP and Samsung S10 using the Ruckus Speedflex App. Uplink speeds are in the 1Gbps class and downloads remain in the 400-500 Mb / s class, this difference is due to the phone's ability to handle high speeds. It is probable that such speeds have never been tested at the manufacturer.

The R730 is …

Like all Ruckus Access Points, the Ruckus ICX switch can be managed using the Virtual SmartZone platform. In this post, we'll look at how to add an ICX switch to vSmartZone and what the management platform interfaces are.

Preparations on ICX

First, the firmware of the ICX switch must be updated to 08.0.90a- To update the switch, you must first download the software from support.ruckuswireless.com, use the scp or tftp …